Cora V. Brubaker – Klanswoman of the Lykens Valley Area
Previously on this blog, a post entitled “Report on the Ku Klux Klan Demonstration at Millersburg, 1927” noted the following: At 4:30. Mrs. Corda Brubaker, representative of the Women of […]
Previously on this blog, a post entitled “Report on the Ku Klux Klan Demonstration at Millersburg, 1927” noted the following: At 4:30. Mrs. Corda Brubaker, representative of the Women of […]
An advertisement that appeared in the Lykens Standard of September 4, 1925, for the Ku Klux Klan Day and Parade in Harrisburg on Labor Day, 1925. As was later shown […]
Just three days after the huge Dauphin County Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Harrisburg, which attracted an estimated 30,000 supporters, Americans woke up to read in their morning newspapers of […]
In its June 9, 1923 edition, the Pottsville Republican published an opinion column by James H. Davis entitled Klan-itis. It was an unusual piece for a newspaper of the time […]
This book review was first posted on the Civil War Blog on January 16, 2014, under the title, “Ten Questions to Ask at Historical Sites.” It is particularly appropriate today […]
On September 30, 1926, Milton A. Miller, editor and proprietor of the Elizabethville Echo, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, published an editorial which seemed to indicate that he favored the selective […]
Henry Breslin was born on 6 April 1846 in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of James Breslin Sr. (1821-1909), an immigrant from Donegal, Ireland, and a Roman Catholic, and […]
This story was previously posted on The Civil War Blog on 1 July 2016 and then updated on 19 July 2017: ______________________________________ Almost exactly one year after an extremely critical […]