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Most of the articles presented here were culled from past issues of
The Historical Review of Berks County,
the quarterly publication of the Historical Society of Berks County.
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Daniel Boone

The World of Moses Boone - The Economic Activity of a Berks County Tanner in the 1780s
Daniel and Squire Boone
The Boones in Pennsylvania
Daniel Boone Berks County's Gift to the West
Ben Franklin's Mortgage on the Daniel Boone Farm
The Early Years of Daniel Boone

Conrad Weiser

African Americans in Berks History

Personalities

WIDE OPEN CITY: Gambling, prostitution flourish in Tony Moran era
Inside the MINKER ERA years
Beer Baron Max Hassel
J. Henry Stump - Reading's Most Memorable Mayor
James H. Maurer - Socialist Labor Leader
Susanna Cox : Her Crime and its Expiation
Dr. George de Benneville Teacher, Healer and Preacher of Universalism
Frederick Lauer Reading's Philanthropic Brewer
Political Career of William A. Witman, Sr.
The Lincolns of Berks County

Amusement Parks

Transportation and Industry

The Reading Railroad Massacre
Berks Airports
Stoudt's Ferry Covered Bridge
The Brewing Industry in Reading, Until 1880
Titan in Berks Edison's Experiments in Iron Concentration
The Gas Industry and its Development in Reading
The Dreibelbis Covered Bridge
Reading, Pretzel Capital of the World

The Pagoda and Mount Penn

Politics

Prohibition! The Failure of the "noble experiment" in Reading & Berks County (1920-1933)
The Road to Insignificance - The Reading Cigarworkers' Union from 1925 to 1935
The Railroad Strike of 1877 in Reading
Augusta Township, Berks County
Thomas Penn and the Town of Reading in Pennsylvania
The Reading Socialists In Retrospect
The Guilded Age in Reading Pennsylvania
The Birth of a County - 1752

Civil War

The 167th Pennsylvania - Civil War's Only All-Berks Regiment
One Moment of Glory: 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers, With Five Berks Companies, Write History at Gettysburg
The Saga of Brigadier General David McMurtie Gregg
The First Defenders
The Ringgold Light Artillery of Reading
The Four Firsts in Berks - 1861
The Lincoln Election in Berks:A Survey of Politics during the Election Year 1860
Far Western Berks In Civil War
The Poignant History of the GAR Monument
The Home Front During the Civil War
The Military Career of David McMurtie Gregg
General William Rufus Terrill:The Civil War Officer that Reading Adopted

Misc

Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club - Keepers of the Appalachian Trail
Flu: 1918 Epidemic Frightens Entire County & Kills Several Thousands
The Hessian POWs in Reading Revisited
The Brethren Community of Pricetown
Celebrating 80 Years of Good Times at The Peanut Bar
South Mountain Resorts A High Road to Health
The Hochstetler Massacre
Historical Survey of Blue Marsh Project Area
Reading Historical Trail by Alex Conrad (pdf)
The Origin and Practition of Pow-Wow Among the Pennsylvania Germans

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