Product Description: A concise look at the American Revolution in 1776, the year George Washington and his army experienced numerous defeats, forcing them to retreat from New Jersey to Pennsylvania by December. The demoralized troops lacked food and clothing, and Washington realized a victory was needed to keep the revolution alive...read more

Product Description: Eckley, near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was a typical company mining town, or "patch," which was in existence from 1854 to 1969. Coal companies constructed and operated villages, such as Eckley, for their workers, providing housing, stores, churches, and schools--and by extension making the workers wholly dependent on the company...read more

Product Description: Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, is a charcoal ironmaking facility that operated from 1742 to 1883. The surviving stone furnace, steam-powered air-blast machinery, and related buildings were once the nucleus of a huge industrial plantation, which produced pig iron and domestic products and, during the Revolution and Civil War, cannon barrels...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Thomas J. McGuire, Craig A. Benner, Kyle R. Weaver (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A brief biography of Daniel Boone, with details on his youth in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania, and the history of the Homestead's later occupants, who reflect the diversity of European settlers in Colonial Pennsylvania. Concludes with a tour of the Boone House and other buildings on the grounds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)