This page includes works of research or history focusing on Pennsylvania and the greater Philadelphia area.
For further regional history, visitors are encouraged to explore the Oral Histories available on WCU Digital Commons, accessible through the following link:
Submissions from 2022
Chipped Glass Artifacts Made by Native People: Cultural Adaptations and Innovations, Marshall Joseph Becker
Lenopi Basketmaking in Southern New Jersey: A Traditional Skill That Survived Into the Twentieth Century, Marshall Joseph Becker
Native Burials in Southern New Jersey: Decoding Tales Relating to Scaffolds and Ossuaries, Marshall Joseph Becker
Rose Valley Rocks!: From Plate Tectonics to Architecture of Place, Walter Cressler
Liberty Bell: More than a Bell, Michael A. Di Giovine
St. Katharine Drexel, Michael A. Di Giovine
Submissions from 2021
Beaver Valley Cave, Delaware (7NC-B-002): A Review of Published Records, Marshall Joseph Becker
Claims of an Eighteenth Century "Indian School" in Pennsylvania: Origins of a Myth, Marshall Joseph Becker
Fort New Gothenburg and the Printzhof: The First Center of Swedish Government in Pennsylvania, Marshall Joseph Becker
Native American Ceramic Pipe Fragments from Great Tinicum Island (36DE3) in the Delaware River below Philadelphia: with a Brief Review of Related Regional Literature, Marshall Joseph Becker
Origins of the Unusual Stature of the Susquehannock: Skeletal Remains from the Murray Garden Site (36BR2), Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2020
The Deisher Site (36BK450): Reconciling and Reconstructing the Evidence for the Location and Date of a Probable Lenape Cemetery Site Identified by 1847, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2018
Fort Nya Göteborg and the Printzhof (36DE3): Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the first Two European Structures Built in Present Pennsylvania, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2015
Lenape ("Delaware") Mail Carriers and the Origins of the US Postal Service, Marshall Joseph Becker
Native Mail Carriers in Early America, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2012
Susquehannock Material Culture Revisited: Eight Pennsylvania Ethnographic Artifacts in the Skokloster Castle Collection in Sweden and a Possible Connection to Capt. John Smith, Marshall Joseph Becker
Using the Environmental History of the Commonwealth to Enhance Pennsylvania and U. S. History Courses, Charles A. Hardy III
Submissions from 2011
Lenape Culture History: The Transition of 1660 and Its Implications for the Archaeology of the Final Phase of the Late Woodland Period, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2010
Late Woodland (CA. 1000 - 1740 CE) Foraging Patterns of the Lenape and Their Neighbors in the Delaware Valley, Marshall Joseph Becker
The Armewamus Band of New Jersey: Other Clues to Differences Between the Lenopi and Lenape, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2009
An American Witch Bottle: Evidence for the practice of "white witchcraft" in colonial Pennsylvania, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2008
A Workingman's Paradise the Evolution of an Unplanned Suburban Landscape, Anne E. Krulikowski
Submissions from 2006
The Socioeconomic Landscape of Northern Delaware’s Taverns and Innkeepers: The Blue Ball Tavern and Vicinity, Heather A. Wholey
Submissions from 2005
An update on Colonial witch bottles, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 2001
Evidence of earliest known wildfires, Walter L. Cressler III
Prodigal Sons, Trap Doors, and Painted Women: Reflections on Life Stories, Urban Legends, and Aural History, Charles Hardy
Submissions from 2000
The Lenape, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 1999
Cash Cropping by Lenape Foragers: Preliminary Notes on Native Maize Sales to Swedish Colonists and Cultural Stability During the Early Colonial Period, Marshall Joseph Becker
Fish or Foul: A History of the Delaware River Basin Through the Perspective of the American Shad, 1682 to the Present, Charles A. Hardy III
Submissions from 1998
Mehoxy of the Cohansey Band of South Jersey Indians: His Life as a Reflection of Symbiotic Relations with Colonists in Southern New Jersey and the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 1995
Lenape Maize Sales to the Swedish Colonists: Cultural Stability During the Early Colonial Period, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 1992
Philadelphia All the Time: Sound of the Quaker City, 1896-1947, Charles Hardy
Submissions from 1990
The Origins of Trade Silver Among the Lenape: Pewter Objects from Southeastern Pennsylvania as Possible Precursors, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 1986
The Okehocking Band of Lenape: Cultural Continuities and Accommodations in Southeastern Pennsylvania, Marshall Joseph Becker
Submissions from 1981
The Stetson Company and Benevolent Feudalism, Roman A. Cybriwski and Charles A. Hardy III
Submissions from 1977
"Swedish" Colonial Yellow Bricks: Notes on Their Uses and Possible Origins in 17th Century America, Marshall Joseph Becker