October 12, 2022
…unification and development plans that displaced and exploited poor and Indigenous communities.| Peter B. Soland| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / Mexico Transportation / Aviation / History…
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…demonstrating that Pittsburgh was more than simply America’s crucible—it was also a region of developing culture and innovation. The 1893 Columbian Exposition presented a chance for the United States to…
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…McPhee tells the very human story behind this ecological disaster: how wealthy industrialists built the mills to supply an ever-growing America; how the town’s residents—millworkers and their families—willfully ignored the…
February 6, 2022
|9780822962601|”Reading Jeffrey McDaniel’s gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet in America. The book in your hands was…
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|9780822958079|Portrait of a Muckraker| In this first definitive biography of Ida Tarbell, Kathleen Brady has written a readable and widely acclaimed book about one of America’s great journalists. Ida Tarbell’s…