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Harrisburg’s history of racial injustice

John Fea   |  July 28, 2020

Two of my colleagues in the Messiah University history department, Bernardo Michael and David Pettegrew, have an op-ed at PennLive today on their work on the African American communities of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Pettegrew is the director of the university’s Digital...

Yesterday Trump gave a speech about the suburbs. It sounded very familiar.

John Fea   |  July 17, 2020

Our history students at Messiah University are doing some great work as part of the Digital Harrisburg Initiative. An exhibit on the Home Owner’s Loan Corporation‘s redlining of Harrisburg in 1935-1936, with primary reports of the commission, a list of resources,...

Do You Know About the Digital Harrisburg Project?

John Fea   |  March 11, 2020

The Digital Harrisburg Initiative continues to roll on at Messiah College. My colleagues are happy to announce the recent publication of an entire issue of Pennsylvania  History journal devoted to the project.  It contains essays by Messiah College faculty, students, and others...

Pennsylvania History: The Final Exam!

John Fea   |  May 9, 2019

For the past decade I have been teaching a course on Pennsylvania History at Messiah College. The class meets several requirements.  Some history majors take it for a 300-level American history elective.  Other history majors take it as part of...

A Saturday Morning in the Old 8th Ward

John Fea   |  May 6, 2019

I am really enjoying my Pennsylvania History course this semester.  As part of the last unit of the course we have been studying Harrisburg’s Old 8th Ward.  The ward is referred to as “old” because it no longer exists.  The...

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