William Pencak

Biographic Data

ID536168
NAMEWilliam Pencak
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEPencak
SIGNATUREPENCAK W
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Free Health Care for the Poor: The Philadelphia Dispensary

    Open AccessWilliam Pencak, William Pencak William PencakARTICLEThe Pennsylvania Magazine of…2012

    Scholars have traced the American hospital’s development from last-resort refuge for the poor and dying in the eighteenth century to the principal health care institution for people of all classes by the early twentieth century. With the exception of Charles Rosenberg, how-ever, few have paid much attention to the dispensary, where far more of the urban poor received medical treatment than in hospitals during the same period.1 This study of the P…

  • Chapter 10. Anti-Semitism, Toleration, and Appreciation: The Changing Relations of Jews and Gentiles in Early America

    William PencakCHAPTERFirst Prejudice2011

  • Charles Peirce's understanding of the four ages and of his own place in the history of human thought

    Open AccessWilliam PencakARTICLESemiotica2010

    John Deely's Four ages of understanding rightly views Charles Sanders Peirce as one of the key figures in human thought, along with Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Locke (not to mention Kant and Hegel). Studying Peirce's own extensive writings on the history of philosophy, in which all of those men figured prominently, reveals that Peirce himself developed roughly the same periodization as Deely, without working it out in such detail. Peirce r…

  • Jews and Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800

    Mark K Bauman, William PencakARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Complicating Native American-White Relations in British North America

    William PencakARTICLEEthnohistory2005

    Review Article| April 01 2005 Complicating Native American-White Relations in British North America William Pencak William Pencak Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 437–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-2-437 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation William Pencak; Complicating Native American-White Relations in British North America…

  • Riot and Revelry in Early America

    Cynthia A Kierner, William Pencak et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2003Cited by: 2

    Edited by Anya labour and Revelry in Early America. Edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 316. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.)Like many books that grow out of scholarly conferences, this one is hard to summarize. The book's first section, Riot and Rough Music, includes three essays on rural unrest and two on more explicitly political crowd actions in Bo…

  • The American Civil War Did Not Take Place: With apologies to Baudrillard

    William PencakARTICLERethinking History2002

    The term 'Civil War', which is now used most commonly to describe the military events of 1861-1865 in the USA, only gradually became the predominant signifier of the conflict. It represented a compromise between Northerners who had formerly talked of the 'War of the Rebellion' and Southerners who claimed to have fought 'The War for Southern Independence' or 'The War Between the States' (which is still used, mostly in the ex-Confederacy). The term…

  • Sweet Land of Liberty: The Ordeal of the American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania

    Terry Bouton, Francis S Fox et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • "The "Infamas Govener: Francis Bernard and the Origins of the American Revolution

    William Pencak, Colin Nicolson et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • Perspectives on Britain's First Ethnically Diverse Empire

    William PencakARTICLEEthnohistory2001

    Ethnohistory - Volume 48, Number 1-2, Winter-Spring 2001

  • Commemorative essay. Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998) and Peirce’s paradoxical semiotics of freedom

    Open AccessWilliam PencakARTICLESemiotica2000

  • The Palladium of Justice: Origins of the Trial by Jury

    William Pencak, Leonard W LevyARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

  • The First Impeachment: The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount

    William Pencak, Buckner F MeltonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1999

  • Empire, Society, and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn

    Ian K Steele, Nicholas Canny et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Empire, Society and Labor: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Dunn

    Emma J Lapsansky, Emma Lapsansky et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1998

  • Foucault stoned: Reconsidering insanity, and history

    William PencakARTICLERethinking History1997References: 14

    The 1982–3 debate in The New York Review of Books between Lawrence Stone and Michel Foucault over whether mental institutions were benign or oppressive provides an excellent window through which to view the most fundamental questions of how history is written. Stone looks upon the past as explainable through complicated connections of cause and effect; Foucault believes these are unknowable and we can only understand the discourses of particular …

  • The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas

    William PencakBOOKThe Conflict of Law and Justice…1995

    The world's longest lasting republic between ancient Rome and modern Switzerland, medieval Iceland (c. 870-1262) centered its national literature, the great family sagas, around the problem of can a republic survive and do justice to its inhabitants. The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas takes a semiotic approach to six of the major sagas which depict a nation of free men, abetted by formidable women, testing conflicting legal co…

  • The White House: The First Two Hundred Years

    Tim H Blessing, Frank Freidel et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The White House: The First Two Hundred Years. Ed. by Frank Freidel and William Pencak. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994. xxii, 218 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55553-170-9.) Get access Tim H. Blessing Tim H. Blessing Alvernia College, Reading, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1694–1695, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • New York in the Age of the Constitution, 1775-1800

    Cynthia A Kierner, Paul A Gilje et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article New York in the Age of the Constitution, 1773–1800. Ed. by Paul Gilje and William Pencak. (Cranbury: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992. 203 pp. $34.50, ISBN 0-8386-3455-9.) Get access Cynthia A. Kierner Cynthia A. Kierner University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1062…

  • New York in the Age of the Constitution, 1775-1800

    Jessica Kro, Jessica Kross et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1993

  • Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England

    William Pencak, Teresa Murphy et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1992

  • Immigration to New York

    Barbara Blumberg, William Pencak et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Immigration to New York. Ed. by William Pencak, Selma Berrol, and Randall M. Miller. (Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1991. xiv + 254 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-944190-09-X.) Get access Immigration to New York. Ed. by Pencak William Berrol Selma Miller Randall M.. (Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press and London: Associated University Presses, 1991. xiv + 254 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-944190-09-X.) B…

  • David Humphreys' "Life of General Washington" with George Washington's "Remarks

    William Pencak, William A Pencak et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1992

    In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Rosemarie Zagarri has assembled manuscripts from three separate archives to reconstruct - and publish for the first time in its full form - the only biography of George Washington authorized by the general himself. Written by his close friend and military aide David Humphreys. It offers a rare, intimate glimpse of Washington's life, from his birth in 1732 until his assumption of the presidency in…

  • Prelude to Purgatory: Thomas Hutchinson in Provincial Massachusetts Politics, 1760-1770

    William Pencak, Malcolm FreibergARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1991

  • Charles Sanders Peirce, historian and semiotician

    Open AccessWilliam PencakARTICLESemiotica1991