The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CXXXV April 2011 NO. 2 TAMING WILD GIRLS:THE MIDNIGHT MISSION AND THE CAMPAIGN TO REFORM PHILADELPHIA’S MORAL FABRIC, 1915–1918 James Adams 125 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS ELIZABETH GRAEME FERGUSSON’S “THE DESERTED WIFE” Rodney Mader 151 EXHIBIT REVIEW:OUR HOUSE? THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE AT INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK Steven Conn 191 BOOK REVIEWS 199 BOOK REVIEWS SMOLENSKI, Friends and Strangers: The Making of Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania, by Judith Ridner 199 RIDNER, A Town In-Between: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior, by Karen Guenther 200 MYERS, The Ordeal of Thomas Barton: Anglican Missionary in the Pennsylvania Backcountry, 1755–1780, by Holly A. Mayer 201 STERN, David Franks: Colonial Merchant, by Toni Pitock 202 MCGRATH, John Barry: An American Hero in the Age of Sail, by Dennis M. Conrad 204 HALLOCK and HOFFMAN, eds., William Bartram, The Search for Nature’s Design: Selected Art, Letters, and Unpublished Writings, by Thomas P. Slaughter 205 YENAWINE, Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance, by Andrew M. Schocket 206 FICHTER, So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo- American Capitalism, by Jane T. Merritt 207 BRANSON, Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic, by Jennifer Lawrence Janofsky 208 GALLMAN, Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front, by Jonathan W. White 210 REASON, Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History, by Michael Clapper 211 CANTON, Raymond Pace Alexander: A New Negro Lawyer Fights for Civil Rights in Philadelphia, by Mary Frances Berry 212 DAVIN, Crucible of Freedom: Workers’ Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914–1960, by Kenneth J.
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