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"Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement" by Joe William Trotter
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditi...
"Germantown" with Michael Harris
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
General Sir William Howe launched his campaign to capture Philadelphia in late July 1777, with an army of 16,500 British and Hessian soldiers aboard a...
"Smalltime" with Russell Shorto
19 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Smalltime" is a mob story straight out of central casting—but with a difference, for the small-town mob, which stretched from Schenectady to Fresno...
"Blood Runs Coal" with Mark Bradley
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph "Jo...
"Bullets and Bandages" with James Gindlesperger
22 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At Gettysburg, PA, during three days of July 1863, 160,000 men fought one of the most fierce and storied battles of the US Civil War. Nearly one in th...
"Physician Soldier" with Michael Gabriel
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His lett...
"Beyond the Art Spirit" with Karl Kuerner
08 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Much has been published about the artistically talented Wyeth family—-N. C., Andrew, Carolyn, Ann, Jamie, Nicky and Victoria—-but there has been s...
"Salut!: France Meets Philadelphia" with Lynn Miller & Therese Dolan
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One highly visible example of French influence on the city of Philadelphia is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, modeled on the Champs-Élysées. In "Salu...
"Out in Central Pennsylvania" with William Burton with Barry Loveland
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Outside of major metropolitan areas, the fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights has had its own unique and rich history—one that i...
"Moravian Soundscapes" with Sarah Justina Eyerly
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In "Moravian Soundscapes," Sarah Eyerly contends that the study of sound is integral to understanding the interactions between German Moravian mission...
"Hell with the Lid Off" with Ed Gruver and Jim Campbell
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"Hell with the Lid Off" looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roo...
"Preserving the White Man's Republic" with Joshua Lynn
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In "Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism," historian Joshua Lynn reveals h...
"The Delaware River Story" with Lee Hartman
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Delaware River flows some 330 miles from its headwaters near Hancock, New York, to the mouth of the Delaware Bay. It is the longest free-flowing r...
"Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years: 1940-1976" with Jed Perl
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder–known to all as Sandy–and his wife, Louisa, open...
"Geography, Geology and Genius" with Martha Capwell Fox
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first book that tells the story of how a small slice of eastern Pennsylvania became the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution. Penn...
"Out of the Woods" with Ellen Williams
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 1861, as the nation balanced on the brink of the Civil War, a farmer from the Hudson Valley brought a pedigreed colt to his new home ...
"Philadelphia Battlefields" with John Kromer
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Kromer's "Philadelphia Battlefields" considers key local campaigns undertaken from 1951 to 2019 that were extraordinarily successful despite the ...
"Dead Letters" with Jessica Weible
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On assignment for a small-town newspaper in rural Pennsylvania, rookie reporter, Jessica Weible, meets Joan Swigart, a creative fireball and "pioneer ...
"Iconic Pittsburgh" with Paul King
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Steel City has boasted some of the most famous figures, landmarks and innovations in the country's history. Pittsburgh's past is littered with doz...
"The Founding Fortunes" with Tom Shachtman
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In "The Founding Fortunes," historian Tom Shachtman reveals the ways in which a dozen notable Revolutionaries deeply affected the finances and birth o...
"Becoming Philadelphia" with Inga Saffron
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city's physical transformation as it emerged from a half century o...
"Playing Politics with Natural Disaster" with Timothy Kneeland
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months before a pivotal election and at the dawn of the deindustrialization period acro...
"Saga of the Johnstown City Schools" with Clea Hollis
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Offers a detailed chronology of the growth, decline, and attempted resurrection of one American public education system. This book illustrates academi...
"Ruling Suburbia: John J. McClure and the Republican Machine in Delaware County, Pennsylvania" with John Morrison McLarnon
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ruling Suburbia chronicles the history of the Republican machine that has dominated the political life of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, since 1875, a...
"Bridges…Pittsburgh at the Point…A Journey Through History" with Thomas Leech and Linda Kaplan
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Bridges…Pittsburgh at the Point…A Journey Through History" tells the stories of the 34 bridges that crossed the Monongahela, Allegheny, and Ohio ...
"The Houses of Louis Kahn" with George Marcus and William Whitaker
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Louis Kahn (1901–1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the ...
"Juniata, River of Sorrows" with Dennis McIlnay
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A stirring documentary of Dennis McIlnay's trip on the 100- mile Juniata River in central Pennsylvania, and a moving portrait of some of the Juniata's...
"James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s" with Michael Birkner
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Buchanan entered the White House in March 1857, he seemed well positioned to accomplish his main objectives. A canny and seasoned politician from...
"On the Front Lines of Pennsylvania Politics: Twenty-five Years of Keystone Reporting" with John Baer
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pennsylvania, first home of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, has a tradition of political progress. However, along with the good,...
"Lost Mount Penn" with Mike Madaio
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
German immigrants of the nineteenth century brought their traditions of winemaking and mouthwatering cuisine to the slopes of Mount Penn high above Re...
"Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga" with Lee Francis IV, Weshoyot Alvitre and Will Fenton
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
During the Paxton massacres of 1763, a mob of white settlers, so-called "Paxton Boys" murdered 20 unarmed Conestoga People in a genocidal campaign tha...
"The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813" with Walter Rybka
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the America...
"Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania" with Scott Butcher
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nestled among the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania, six counties – Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York – are home ...
"Pittsburgh in World War I" with Elizabeth Williams
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the whole of Europe went to war in 1914, Pittsburgh watched the storm clouds gather at home. Yet Pittsburgh was a city of immigrants--the large P...
"Emotional Gettysburg" with Karl Kuerner and Bruce Mowday
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a series of historic vignettes combined with contemporary paintings renowned artist Karl J. Kuerner and award-winning writer Bruce E. Mowday explor...
"Bandstandland" with Larry Lehmer
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
American Bandstand, one of the longest-running shows in television history, spotlighted well-scrubbed, properly dressed dancing teenagers on every sho...
"By Great Rivers: Lives of the Appalachian Frontier" with Robert Swift
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By Great Rivers: Lives on the Appalachian Frontier tells the story of people who shaped events during a period of rapid political and social change in...
"Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays" with James Overmyer
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cumberland Posey began his career in 1911 playing outfield for the Homestead Grays, a local black team in his Pennsylvania hometown. He soon became th...
"George Washington's Nemesis" with Christian McBurney
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
General Charles Lee, second in command in the Continental Army led by George Washington, was captured by the British in December 1776. While a prisone...
"The New Eagles Encyclopedia" with Ray Didinger
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While much has changed in the decade since the original publication of The Eagles Encyclopedia, the passion of Eagles fans has only grown stronger. Th...
"Pennsylvania Patriots: Their Lives, Contributions, and Burial Sites" with Joe Farrell, Joe Farley and Lawrence Knorr
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Farrell, Joe Farley, and Lawrence Knorr have traveled across the eastern USA to the graves of over 200 founding fathers (and mothers) responsible ...
"She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" with Erica Armstrong Dunbar
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading abolitionist, her bravery and selflessness...
"Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern" with Edward Muller and Joel Tarr
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pittsburgh's explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to cit...
"Horne's" & "Kaufmann's" with Letitia Stuart Savage
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Joseph Horne Company, popularly known as Horne's, was a beloved and integral part of Pittsburghers' lives for generations. It was the first depart...
"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" with Walter Isaacson
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinat...
"The Life and Loves of Thaddeus Stevens" with Mark Singel
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"The Life and Loves of Thaddeus Stevens" is an insightful look at one of the most misunderstood figures of the 19th Century. Stevens, the driving forc...
"Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player" with Jeremy Beer
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Among experts, Oscar Charleston is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black ...
"A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten" with Julie Winch
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-centu...
"Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919" with Ryan Brown
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 1919, the steel industry of Pittsburgh was on the brink of war. Years of labor strife broke out into open conflict as steel workers launched the bi...
"Chasing Cosby: The Downfall of America's Dad" with Nicole Weisensee Egan
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Cosby's decades-long career as a sweater-wearing, wholesome TV dad came to a swift and stunning end on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted of d...
"The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" with H.W. Brands
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, ...
"Crucible of War" with Fred Anderson
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new signific...
"Marley & Me" with John Grogan
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Grogan, a metropolitan columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and his wife, Jenny, were newlyweds when they brought home an irresistible yellow ...
"Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken: Eleven Fateful Days after Gettysburg" with Richard Schaus
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Lee is Trapped and Must be Taken" focuses on the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg and addresses how Maj. Gen. George G. Meade organize...
"Little Italy in the Great War" with Richard Juliani
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Great War challenged all who were touched by it. Italian immigrants, torn between their country of origin and country of relocation, confronted po...
"Betsy Ross and the Making of America" with Marla Miller
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. Perhaps with one snip of her scissors...
"Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King" with Thomas Balcerski
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In "Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King," Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and d...
"George Marshall: Defender of the Republic" with David Roll
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Even as a young officer George Marshall was heralded as a genius, a reputation that grew when in WWI he planned and executed a nighttime movement of m...
"Franz Kline in Coal Country" with Rebecca and Joel Finsel
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Franz Kline in Coal Country" is the first biography to examine Kline's formative years in Lehighton, Philadelphia, Boston, and London, before he beca...
"Gettysburg's Peach Orchard" with James Hessler and Britt Isenberg
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On July 2, 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered skeptical subordinate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet to launch a massive assault against the Union ...
"Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution" with Jeff Broadwater
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders ...
"The Disaffected" with Aaron Sullivan
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth and Henry Drinker of Philadelphia were no friends of the American Revolution. Yet neither were they its enemies. The Drinkers were a merchan...
"Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism" with Char Miller
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provi...
"Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures" with Robert Wittman
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Wall Street Journal called him "a living legend." The London Times dubbed him "the most famous art detective in the world." In Priceless, Rober...
"Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969" with David Eisenhower
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When President Dwight Eisenhower left Washington, D.C., at the end of his second term, he retired to a farm in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that...
"Remembering Pittsburgh: An "Eyewitness" History of the Steel City" with Len Barcousky
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the city in 1845 and Lincoln's speech urging residents to shun talk of secessio...
"I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had" with Tony Danza
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza's absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-g...
"Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey" with Allan Keiler
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A definitive biography of one of America's greatest singers and a seminal figure in the American civil rights movement uncovers the life of the first ...
"Mario Lanza: Tenor in Exile" with Roland Bessette
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
More than 40 years after his premature death, the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure, a crossover icon embraced and reme...
"Joseph Leidy" with Leonard Warren
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporaries of the modest and unassuming scientist Joseph Leidy (1823–91) revered him as the supreme consultant in questions relating to human an...
"Declaration: The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent" with William Hogeland
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the rambunctious story of how America came to declare independence in Philadelphia in 1776. As late as that May, the Continental Congress had ...
"Disciples of Liberty: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Age of Imperialism, 1884-1916" with Lawrence Little
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the African Methodist Episcopal Church provided an ideological foundation for the African Americ...
"The Knox Mine Disaster" with Robert and Kenneth Wolensky
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Knox Mine Disaster is much more than a history of an accident—or an industry, for that matter. Because the book draws on the recollections of mi...
"The Foreman's Boys: The Story of Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 1333, Camp S-63, Poe Valley" with William Marcum
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Employment prospects for many were bleak at the height of the Great Depression. For unmarried recent high school graduates, the prospect of getting a ...
"Blue-Blooded Cavalryman: Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865" with J. Gregory Acken
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for...
"Pittsburgh's Lost Outpost: Captain Trent's Fort" with Jason Cherry
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As 1753 came to a close, European empires were set on a collision course for a triangular piece of land known as the Forks of the Ohio at the confluen...
"Longstreet at Gettysburg, A Critical Reassessment" with Cory Pfarr
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at the Battle of Gettysburg. The author argues that ...
"Battle of Paoli" with Thomas McGuire
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the years since the Revolutionary War, legend has obscured the story of the Battle of Paoli, better known in history as the Paoli Massacre. For thi...
"Good War, Great Men: The detailed accounts of a machine gun battalion during World War I" with Andrew Capets
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Good War, Great Men" provides first-hand accounts of more than a dozen soldiers who served together during the Great War. Their stories have been red...
"American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns; The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It" with Richard Rosenfeld
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
200 Years ago a Philadelphia newspaper claimed George Washington wasn't the "father of his country." It claimed John Adams really wanted to be king. I...
"Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania, Volume 2, 1710-1756: A Biographical Dictionary" with Craig Horle and Joseph Foster
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This superb biographical dictionary of Pennsylvania legislators provides elaborate accounts of each Pennsylvania lawmaker who served during the period...
"Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father" with Stephen Fried
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence. Among them was a thirty-yea...
"The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields" with Donald Miller and Richard Sharpless
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Considered by scholars and history buffs alike to be the best survey history of the rise and fall of the anthracite mining industry in Pennsylvania, t...
"Abolitionists of Sounth Central Pennsylvania" with Cooper Wingert
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Close to the Mason-Dixon line, South Central Pennsylvania was a magnet for slave catchers and abolitionists alike. Influenced by religion and empathy,...
"Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country" with Paul Shackel
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylv...
"Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated" with Kenneth Finkel
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the city's past. Some stories are quirky,...
"The Elite of Our People: Joseph Willson's Sketches of Black Upper-Class Life in Antebellum Philadelphia" with Julie Winch
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia, first published in 1841, was written by Joseph Willson, a southern black man who ha...
"Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics" with Timothy Lombardo
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brou...
"Archaeology at the Site of the Museum of the American Revolution" with Rebecca Yamin
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When the Museum of the American Revolution acquired the land at Third and Chestnut streets in Olde City, Philadelphia, it came with the condition that...
"The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer Siegmund Lubin" with Joseph Eckhardt
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to detailing the life and career of Siegmund Lubin of Philadelphia, this work explores the complex character of America's first Jewish mov...
"Doo-dah!" with Ken Emerson
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) was America's first great songwriter and the first to earn his living solely through his music. He composed some 200 songs,...
"The Goodfella Tapes" with George Anastasia
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Goodfella Tapes by George Anastasia is the true story of how the FBI recorded a mob war and brought down a mafia don. A riveting, eye-opening true cri...
"The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America" with Ben Bradlee Jr.
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In "The Forgotten," Ben Bradlee Jr. reports on how voters in Luzerne County, a pivotal county in a crucial swing state, came to feel like strangers in...
"Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s " with Natasha Zaretsky
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation...
"A Community Keystone: The Official History of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette" with Bernie Oravec and Lee Janssen
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"A Community Keystone" is a detailed history of the first 217 years of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette and the community that grew up around it from 1801...
"Mr. All-Around: The Life of Tom Gola" with David Grzybowski
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Gola is a Philadelphia Big Five basketball icon. He led La Salle to the NIT championship in 1952 and the NCAA championship in 1954, and holds the ...
"For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania's Breweries" with Alison Feeney
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"For the Love of Beer: Pennsylvania's Breweries" examines Pennsylvania's brewing history, geography, and cultural richness while highlighting over 100...
"Frontier Rebels: The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776" with Patrick Spero
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Frontier Rebels tells story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765. In 1763, the Seven Years' War ended in a spectacular vi...
"Idlewild" with Jennifer Sopko
24 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Idlewild was developed by Pittsburgh's Mellon family as a picnic grove to boost traffic on the Ligonier Valley Rail Road. When C.C. Macdonald took the...
"Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines" with George Thomas
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance ...