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The Fabric of America
Slavery was the root cause of the American Civil War. In fact, the inhumanity of slavery has been the cause of civil strife around the world for millennia. It…
Cannonballs Unearthed at the Allegheny Arsenal
A backhoe operator excavating the site of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Arsenal for the construction of new apartments recently discovered hundreds of Civil War-era cannonballs. The contractor alerted the bomb squad…
Rodman’s Big Gun
Little Mountain Howitzer cannon next to the 20-inch Rodman gun as a featured attraction at the 1879 Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia, Pa. The largest cannon of the Civil…
Could this be the oldest photograph of a Pittsburgher? … Maybe.
The original photo of the Rodman daguerreotype taken with a flash that helped bring out detail in the damaged plate. It is a “sixth plate” daguerreotype and measures 2.75…
150 Years Ago: Lincoln’s Assassination
Portrait of Capt. William A.F. Stockton, History of the One hundred and fortieth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers On April 15, 1865, Capt. William A.F. Stockton took a moment to write his…