The Historical Journal; A Monthly Record Of Local History And Biography Devoted Principally To Northwestern Pennsylvania (Volume I)

Step into northwestern Pennsylvania history as it was remembered, argued over, and carefully recorded, from ridge to river. Names, places, and lives recovered. Edited by John F. Meginness, The Historical Journal is a local history journal in the truest sense: a monthly historical record that gathers notes on settlements, churches, schools, civic life, and the turning points that shaped 19th century Pennsylvania. Alongside events runs a rich biographical sketches collection, offering regional biography and memoirs of founders, soldiers, ministers, editors, and everyday figures whose stories rarely reach national histories. Read straight through, it is a vivid panorama; dip in anywhere, and it becomes a dependable local historians research guide to place, context, and connection. Meginness writes with a reporter's ear and an archivist's discipline, assembling notices, reminiscences, and documentary snippets into a usable record. The result is history at street level: how communities named themselves, mourned their dead, celebrated, and built institutions. Ideal for armchair travellers, too. It rewards curiosity per page. For readers tracing genealogy and family history, this volume works as a practical genealogists reference book, preserving names and community detail often scattered across county archives. For collectors of pennsylvania local history, it stands among the most revealing historical society publications of its era: a county histories anthology with the immediacy of period journalism and the patience of documentation. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.