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The City
Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905–1929 Michael Aronson
The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh J. Ernest Wright, edited by Laurence Glasco
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Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early
Twentieth Century 9
Edited by Maurine Greenwald and Margo Anderson
City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh Edited by Samuel Hays
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Harry, Tom, and Father Rice: Accusation and Betrayal in America’s
Cold War 17
John Hoerr
Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh II: The Post-Steel Era Roy Lubove
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An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great
Allegheny Passage Trail 25
Edited by Edward K. Muller, photographs by Paul g Wiegman
Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s
Dinosaur 29
Tom Rea
Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a
Postindustrial Age 33
Edited by Joseph Scarpaci with Kevin Patrick
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Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh
and Its Region 36
Edited by Joel Tarr
Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette Clarke M. Thomas
39
Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh since World
War II 41
Joe Trotter and Jared Day
Early History
Pittsburgh: The Story of a City, 1750–1865 Leland Baldwin
47
Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising Leland Baldwin
51
Keeping House: Women’s Lives in Western Pennsylvania,
1790–1850 54
Virginia Bartlett
The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania Solon Buck and Elizabeth Buck
Council Fires on the Upper Ohio Randolph Downes
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Crossroads: Descriptions of Western Pennsylvania, 1720–1829 John W. Harpster
62
Drums in the Forest: Decision at the Forks, Defense in the
Wilderness 65
Alfred James and Charles Morse Stotz
A Hugh Henry Brackenridge Reader, 1770–1815 Edited by Daniel Marder
Guns at the Forks Walter O’Meara
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Outposts of War for Empire: The French and English in Western
Pennsylvania: Their Armies, Their Forts, Their People, 1749–1764 Charles Morse Stotz
74
Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years’ War in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, 1754–1765 78
Matthew Ward
Pioneer Life in Western Pennsylvania J. E. Wright and Doris Corbett
80
Industry
Out of This Furnace Thomas Bell
85
Women and the Trades: Pittsburgh, 1907–1908 Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
88
The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh: Law, Technology, and Child
Labor 91
James Flannery
The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel Paul Krause
94
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel
Industry 97
John Hoerr
Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill
District, 1917–1921 100
Charles McCormick
After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America Steve Mellon
A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead Judith Modell, photographs by Charlee Brodsky
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Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation,
1901–2001 110
Kenneth Warren
Place
The Progressive Architecture of Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. Martin Aurand
The Spectator and the Topographical City Martin Aurand
117
Chatham Village: Pittsburgh’s Garden City Angelique Bamberg
115
120
Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889–1943 John Bauman and Edward K. Muller
122
The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevelopment in
Pittsburgh 125
Gregory Crowley
Singing the City: The Bonds of Home in an Industrial Landscape Laurie Graham
Frank Lloyd Wright’s House on Kentuck Knob Donald Hoffmann
The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania Charles Morse Stotz
Pittsburgh: A New Portrait Franklin Toker
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People
To Beijing and Beyond: Pittsburgh and the United Nations Fourth
World Conference on Women 143
Edited by Janice Auth
A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of
John A. Brashear 146
John Brashear
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Improbable Fiction: The Life of Mary Roberts Rinehart Jan Cohn
148
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: Children, Television, and Fred
Rogers 151
Edited by Mark Collins and Margaret Mary Kimmel
Conversations with Maida Springer: A Personal History of Labor, Race,
and International Relations 154
Yevette Richards
Helen Clay Frick: Bittersweet Heiress Martha Frick Symington Sanger
158
The Spencers of Amberson Avenue: A Turn-of-the-Century
Memoir 162
Ethel Spencer
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon Thomas Starzl
Where the Evidence Leads: An Autobiography Dick Thornburgh
165
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Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat Raymond Walters Jr.
173
Don’t Call Me Boss: David L. Lawrence, Pittsburgh’s Renaissance
Mayor 176
Michael P. Weber
The Arts
Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer Howard Bossen
183
Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater Lynne Conner
Steel Shadows: Murals and Drawings of Pittsburgh Douglas Cooper
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Samuel Rosenberg: Portrait of a Painter Barbara Jones
196
Thaddeus Mosley: African American Sculptor 202
Narrative by David Lewis, photography by Lonnie Graham
Shadows on the Wall: Juan O’Gorman and the Mural in
Pátzcuaro 207
Hilary Masters
A Wise Extravagance: The Founding of the Carnegie International
Exhibitions, 1895–1901 212
Kenneth Neal
Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library,
1950–1953 216
Edited by Constance Schulz and Steven Plattner, narrative by Clarke
Thomas
The Homewood Books John Edgar Wideman
221
August Wilson: Three Plays 224
August Wilson, with an Afterword by Paul Carter Harrison
Industry in Art: Pittsburgh, 1812 to 1920 Rina Youngner
227
Sports
About Three Bricks Shy . . . And the Load Filled Up Roy Blount Jr.
Honus Wagner: A Biography 233
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Dennis DeValeria and Jeanne Burke DeValeria
The Pirates Reader 239
Edited by Richard Peterson
One for the Thumb: The New Steelers Reader Edited by Randy Roberts and David Welky
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Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City Edited by Randy Roberts
The Chief 247
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Rob Zellers and Gene Collier
Spring Training 253
William Zinsser
For Younger Readers
Three Golden Rivers Olive Price
Duffy’s Rocks Edward Fenton
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262
Greenhorn on the Frontier Ann Finlayson
The Tempering 266
269
Gloria Skurzynski
Lagniappe
The Fallingwater Cookbook: Elsie Henderson’s Recipes and
Memories 275
Suzanne Martinson, with Jane Citron and Robert Sendall
A Very Concise History of the University of Pittsburgh Press 283
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