The Wearing of the Black and Gold

This holiday season, visit the History Center to see reminders of holiday traditions past and present. Find the Santa Mural in the homefront section of the We Can Do It:…

Can you remember a Christmas when there wasn’t a special trip to town to see Kaufmann’s windows? It’s as much a part of Christmas as the tree! Advertisement, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…

Of those captured by Indians in the 18th century, none was better adapted to life on the frontier than James Smith. Captured at the age of 18 while working on…

“What’s for dinner?” is the eternal lament of housewives and working people. What do you make that pleases every palate, provides needed nutrition, and, ideally, gives you leftovers to get…

Started in 1871 as a men’s tailoring and ready-to-wear shop on Carson St. on Pittsburgh’s South Side, Kaufmann’s expanded both in size and in the variety of merchandise it carried…

The Italian American display of the fourth floor Special Collections Gallery highlights only a fraction of the History Center’s Italian American Collection. The Senator John Heinz History Center’s Italian American…

With summer winding down and kids heading back to school, one of the great traditions of this region – Friday night high school football – is about to kick off…

Recent visitors to the Heinz History Center probably have noticed a BIG new addition to the museum’s exterior. The massive green U.S. Army tank parked in front of the building’s…

August 14, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with “Victory over Japan,” or V-J Day. In 1945, Americans rejoiced along with Allies in Europe…

It was a tale that reached legendary status well within its own time. With each newspaper edition, readers devoured reports that revealed the escape, capture, and ultimate death of the…