PA BOOKS on PCN Podcast
1) "Feeding Washington's Army" with Ricardo Herrera
In this major new history of the Continental Army's Grand Forage of 1778, award-winning military historian Ricardo A. Herrera uncovers what daily life was like for soldiers during the darkest and cold...Show More
2) "All Roads Led to Gettysburg" with Troy Harman
Most Civil War battles occurred along major roads, railroads, and waterways; the armies needed to move men and equipment, and they needed water for men and horses. And yet this perspective hasn't been...Show More
3) "If We Are Striking for Pennsylvania" with Scott Mingus & Eric Wittenberg
Gen. Robert E. Lee began moving part of his Army of Northern Virginia from the Old Dominion toward Pennsylvania on June 3, 1863. Lee believed his army needed to win a major victory on Northern soil if...Show More
4) "River Boots" with Robert Lynn Steiner
River Boots is a career synopsis, a training manual, a history book and one conservation officer's slightly twisted view of a quarter century in the business. It is a sometimes "belly laughing" look a...Show More
5) "Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay" with Jamie Goodall
Illicit commerce was key to the survival of the mid-Atlantic colonies from the Golden Age of Piracy to the battles of the American Revolution. Out of this exciting time came beloved villains like Capt...Show More
"Pirates & Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay" with Jamie Goodall
0:00 | Oct 31st, 2022
6) "Death of the Daily News" with Andrew Conte
The City of McKeesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive di...Show More
7) "The Lion of Round Top" with Hans Meyers
Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of pilgrims and religious refugees, husband, father, brother. But his greatest contribution to h...Show More
8) "Murder & Mayhem in Erie, PA" with Justin Dombrowski
From the French and Indian War to Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie, the city of Erie has a prideful place in the American story, but there also exists a seedy history of crime and murder...Show More
9) "Kaufmann's" with Marylynne Pitz and Laura Malt Schneiderman
In 1868, Jacob Kaufmann, the nineteen-year-old son of a German farmer, stepped off a ship onto the shores of New York. His brother Isaac soon followed, and together they joined an immigrant communit...Show More
10) "Gettysburg's Lost Love Story" with Jeffrey Harding
Union general John Reynolds was one of the most beloved and respected military leaders of the Civil War, yet beyond the battlefield, the captivating true story of his secret romance with Catherine "Ka...Show More