Decoding the Myths of Asa Packer, 1805?-1879

Resources and Bibliography

The texts listed under each section correspond to the sources used to write the actual exhibit texts. Quotes can be found in the sources. Below the sources used for the webpages is a lengthier list of sources compiled by the research team.


Packer the Industrialist:

Packer the Politician:

Pennsylvania House of Representatives
  1. Asa Packer Biographical File, SC MS 058, Lehigh University Special Collections
  2. http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/66H.pdf
  3. http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/legis/67H.pdf
1843: A Swim and a Nickname
  1. Lavelle, John P. The Hard Coal Docket 
  2. http://www.carboncourts.com/archives.htm
  3. Reports of the Heads of Departments Transmitted to the Governor of the Commonwealth in Pursuance of Law, for the Financial Year Ending November 30, 1844
  4. Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1879
  5. Newspapers:
    The Daily Atlas, 7/17/1843, 7/26/1843, and 8/11/1843
    The North American, 8/3/1843
Mr. Packer Goes to Washington
  1. Collins, Bruce, “Ideology of the Ante-Bellum Northern Democrats,” Journal of American Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (Apr., 1977), 103-121.
  2. Etcheson, Nicole. Bleeding Kansas.
  3. Forney, John W. Anecdotes of Public Men, volume 1. 
  4. Nichols, Roy F. “The Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Century of Historiography,” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, vol. 43, no. 2 (Sep., 1956), 187-212.
  5. Schimmel, Elliott Lawrence. “William H. English and the Politics of Self-Deception, 1845-1861.” Ph.D. diss., The Florida State University, 1986.
  6. Newspaper:
    New York Herald, 7/23/1856
Packer and the American Colonization Society
  1. http://www.lincoln.edu/node/1340/special-collections-and-archives/digital-collections/library-colonization-society
  2. Burin, Eric. “Rethinking Northern White Support for the African Colonization Movement: The Pennsylvania Colonization Society as an Agent of Emancipation,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 127, no. 2 (Apr. 2003), 197-229.
  3. Tomek, Beverley. Colonization and its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania
President Packer?
  1. William E. Smith, The Francis Preston Blair Family in Politics, vol 2.
  2. Bradley, Erwin Stanley. “Post-Bellum Politics in Pennsylvania, 1866-1872.” Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1952.
  3. Newspapers:
    The Daily Cleveland Herald, 7/7/1868 and 7/8/1868
    Boston Daily Advertiser, 7/6/1868
Governor of Pennsylvania
  1. Bradley, Erwin Stanley. “Post-Bellum Politics in Pennsylvania, 1866-1872.” Ph.D. diss., The Pennsylvania State University, 1952.
  2. Lavelle, John P. The Hard Coal Docket 
  3. McClure, Alexander K. Old Time Notes
  4. Newspapers:
    Bedford Gazette, 7/30/1869
    Cambria Freeman, 8/5/1869
    The Ebensburg Alleghanian, 7/29/1869
    The New York Herald, 10/2/1869
    The New York Sun, 9/16/1869
Packer and the Molly Maguires
  1. Kenny, Kevin. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
  2. Lavelle, John P. The Hard Coal Docket 


Packer the Educator:

 

Packer the Victorian:

Introduction
Packer's Philosophy Part I: Religion
Packer's Philosophy Part II: Philosophy


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