Resources & Links
ONLINE Resources
Ligonier Valley Library, Pennsylvania Room
National Register Nomination, Compass Inn
National Register Nomination, Ligonier Historic District
Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau, Ligonier
Ligonier Valley Chamber of Commerce, Ligonier
Westmoreland County Chamber of Commerce, Greensburg
Print Resources
Appleby, Joyce Oldham. Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2001.
Bartlett, Virginia K. Keeping House: Women’s Lives in Western Pennsylvania 1790-1850. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
Bickham, Troy. The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire and the War of 1812. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Freeman, Joanne. Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Stagecoach East: Stagecoach Days in the East from Colonial Period to the Civil War. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1983.
McNamara, Brooks. Step Right Up. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. (history of the rise and fall of the American medicine show)
Mitchell, Sarah E. Ladies’ Clothing in the 1830’s. Chatham, VA: Sarah E. Mitchell, 2010.
Rorabaugh, William J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. (about the economic, social and political influences of American drinking culture from 1790-1830s)
Sexton, Jay. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth Century America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2011.
for Young Readers (graphic novels):
Problems of a New Nation: 1800-1830. Costa Mesa, CA: Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2008. https://www.amazon.com/Problems-New-Nation-1800-1830-Saddleback/dp/1599053594
Americans Move Westward: 1800-1850. Costa Mesa, CA: Saddleback Educational Publishing, 2008 https://www.amazon.com/Americans-Move-West-1800-1850-Graphic/dp/1599053608
Area Attractions
Antiochian Heritage Museum, Bolivar
Baltzer Meyer Historical Society, Greensburg
Christ Our Shepherd Center, Greensburg
Bushy Run Battle Field, Jeanette
Fallingwater, Mill Run
Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville
Fort Ligonier, Ligonier
Fulton House, New Derry
Hanna’s Town, Greensburg
Idlewild & SoakZone, Ligonier
Independent Battalion of Westmoreland County, Westmoreland County
Kentuck Knob, Chalkhill
Latrobe Historical Society, Latrobe
Ligonier Valley Library, Ligonier
Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, Latrobe
Living Treasure Animal Park, Donegal
Loyalhanna Watershed Association, Ligonier
The Palace Theater, Greensburg
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier
Westmoreland Historical Society, Greensburg
West Overton Village & Museum, Scottdale