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Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

By Edward K. Muller, Rob Ruck

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

Small in Real Life

By Kelly Sather

Winner of the 2023 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

Most Adaptable to Change

Evolution and Religion in Global Popular Media

Edited By Alexander Hall, Will Mason-Wilkes

How Multimedia Influenced Relationships between Evolutionary Studies and Religion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Absent Here

Poems

By Bret Shepard

Winner of the 2023 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry

Purchase

Poems

By Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Poems That Breathe through Grief to Find Comfort in the Natural World

Obligations to the Wounded

By Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize

William Whewell

Victorian Polymath

Edited By Lukas M. Verburgt

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era

Sharing Spaces

Technology, Mediation, and Human-Animal Relationships

Edited By Finn Arne Jørgensen, Dolly Jørgensen

Considers the Entangled Human-Animal Relationship of a Complex Multispecies World

Black Urban History at the Crossroads

Race and Place in the American City

Edited By Leslie M. Harris, Clarence Lang, Rhonda Y. Williams, Joe William Trotter Jr.

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

Still City

Poems

By Oksana Maksymchuk

First-Hand and Documentary Poetic Witness to the War in Ukraine

Imaginative Possibilities

Conversations with Twenty-First-Century Latinx Writers

By Maceo Montoya, Javier O. Huerta

Interviews That Speak to New Trends and Developments in Latinx Literature

Creatures of Reason

John Herschel and the Invention of Science

By Stephen Case

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice

From the Steel City to the White City

Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition

By Zachary L. Brodt

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

Andy Warhol’s Mother

The Woman Behind the Artist

By Elaine Rusinko

The First Comprehensive Biography of Julia Warhola

Spatial Theories for the Americas

Counterweights to Five Centuries of Eurocentrism

By Fernando Luiz Lara

Confronts the Insufficiencies of Canonical Architectural Texts