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ResetBook Review: “The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster”
The Mount Washington Transit Tunnel Disaster By Mary Jane Kuffner Hirt The History Press, 2021 192 pages, 60 photos and maps Paperback, $21.99 Reviewed by Mark Holan, Pittsburgh native…
Book Review: “An Alternative History of Pittsburgh”
An Alternative History of Pittsburgh By Ed Simon Belt Publishing, 2021 176 pages Paperback, $16.95 Reviewed by Leslie Przybylek, Senior Curator, Heinz History Center In literary tradition, an “alternative…
Book Review: “Andy, Can You Hear Us? Communing with Andy Warhol at His Gravesite – Vol. 1 (Winter)”
Andy, Can You Hear Us? Communing with Andy Warhol at His Gravesite – Vol. 1 (Winter) By Madelyn Roehrig Andy’s Figments, 2020 80 pages, color photos Softcover, $39.99 Reviewed…
Book Review: “A Gift of Belief: Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh”
A Gift of Belief: Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh Edited by Kathleen W. Buechel University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 384 pages Hardcover, $40 Reviewed by Betty Arenth, former…
Book Review: “Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania”
Banished From Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania By Cody McDevitt History Press, 2020 224 pages Paperback, $23.99 Reviewed by Samuel W. Black, Director, African American Program, Heinz History Center…
Book Review: “Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob”
Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob By Russell Shorto W.W. Norton, 2021 272 pages Hardcover, $26.95 Reviewed by Bill Keyes, former museum division director at the…
Book Reviews: Fall 2018
Marketing the Moon: The Selling of the Apollo Lunar Program By David Meerman Scott and Richard Jurek The MIT Press, 2014 144 pp., 210 color and 25 b&w illustrations…
Book Review: “Drums in the Forest”
Drums in the Forest: Decision at the Forks, Defense in the Wilderness By Alfred James and Charles Stotz Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958, 2005.…
Book Reviews: Summer 2017
Butterflies of Pennsylvania: A Field Guide By James L. Monroe & David M. Wright University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017 328 pp., 900+ color illus., checklist of species Paper/flex bound,…
Book Reviews: Spring 2017
Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861–1867 By Andrew E. Masich University of Oklahoma Press, 2017 39 B&W illustrations, 2 maps, 464 pp. Hardcover, $34.95 | Purchase Still the…