Temple Journalism Professor Carolyn Kitch has recently published a new book, Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past, through the Penn State University Press.

Pennsylvania in Public Memory examines the stories we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews and more than two hundred heritage sites, the book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.