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Modern Architecture in Mexico City

…profession. | Kathryn E. O’Rourke| Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment| Architecture / General Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) History / Latin America / Mexico…

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The Sweating Sickness

…of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both personal and political, these poems interrogate how we grieve, what it means to be a woman in post-Roe America, and how private and public ghosts…

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Mexican Icarus

…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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From the Steel City to the White City

…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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Donora Death Fog

…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…

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