Meet Leslie Przybylek, lead curator for the new American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition exhibition, on display beginning Saturday, Feb. 10. Leslie has been hard at work bringing…

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  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…

  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…

  The Heinz History Center’s African American Program is dedicated to the preservation, dissemination, and interpretation of the life, history, and culture of Africans and African Americans in Western Pennsylvania.…

This Mr. Potato Head kit belonged to George Lerner, who invented the popular toy. Lerner had trouble interesting toy companies in his invention in the late 1940s as war rationing…

Are you considering making a year-end donation to the Senator John Heinz History Center or have you supported us throughout the year? Thank you! Donors like YOU make it possible…

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:…

The key members of the American Bantam Car Company pose with the first jeep prototype outside of the Butler factory, September 21, 1940. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution. No…

Portrait of H.J. Heinz at age 20. Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center. Scorned in the 1870s for his poor business decisions, H.J. Heinz rebuilt his company…