History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

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From the Steel City to the White City

From the Steel City to the White City

Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition

How Pittsburgh Positioned Itself as a Center of Culture and Innovation at the Turn of the Century

Andy Warhol’s Mother

Andy Warhol’s Mother

The Woman Behind the Artist

The First Comprehensive Biography of Julia Warhola

Pittsburgh Rising

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

The Lung Block

The Lung Block

Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York

Lays Bare the Class Struggles Inherent in Public Health and Urban Parks Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century

Mal Goode Reporting

Mal Goode Reporting

The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer

The First Comprehensive Biography on a Barrier-Breaking Black Radio and Television Newscaster

Making the Frontier Man

Making the Frontier Man

Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry

Contextualizes the Development of Early American Violence and Gun Culture

Kaufmann’s

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Fields of Play

Fields of Play

Sport, Race, and Memory in the Steel City

A Pittsburgh Sports History Centering Issues of Race and Economic Disparity

Youghiogheny

Youghiogheny

Appalachian River, Revised Edition

The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of the Classic Exploration of the Youghiogheny River,Updated with a New Introduction and Epilogue

To Risk It All

To Risk It All

General Forbes, the Capture of Fort Duquesne, and the Course of Empire in the Ohio Country

A Comprehensive History Placing Forbes and His Campaign during the Seven Years’ War within the Context of the Eighteenth Century British Empire

Iron Artisans

Iron Artisans

Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

Donora Death Fog

Donora Death Fog

Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

Bound in the Bond of Life

Bound in the Bond of Life

Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy

Essays That Confront the Personal and Public Aspects of Surviving Tragedy and Demonstrate How Pittsburgh Is Still Stronger Than Hate

Homestead

Homestead

The Households of a Mill Town

The Classic Portrait of Urban Industrial Life in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, with a New Foreword by Tom Waseleski

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