ABSTRACT This article considers how struggles over land shaped the process of “anglicization” in colonial Pennsylvania. It focuses on a property dispute 1720s that pitted second-generation Swedish yeoman and his fellow “Ancient Settlers” against an aspiring English Quaker entrepreneur high-placed allies. Drawing records, official minutes, contemporary correspondence to reconstruct controversy, ...

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 Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authority, University Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2020.

Though HIPAA addresses privacy and security on a nationwide basis, state laws and regulations vary. This paper describes the landscape for privacy and security in Pennsylvania and its key elements. It addresses common myths and misunderstandings and provides an overview of what is actually required to provide needed protections privacy policies from government and the stakeholders; risk analysi...

The Pennsylvania grotto sculpin is known from just two caves of the Nippenose Valley in central Pennsylvania, USA. They exhibit emergent troglobitic morphological traits and are second northern-most cave adapted fish world. Two mitochondrial ( 16S rRNA D-loop gene) one nuclear S7 ribosomal protein gene intron) both epigean populations were sequenced. For three markers, a large proportion specim...

The Department of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University's (Penn State) College of Medicine, created at the founding of the College in 1967, was the first of its kind at any medical school. This article begins by describing how the department has developed over the years, and then discusses its present configuration, including kinds of faculty appointments, information about how it is fund...