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How English Spelling Defeated Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie funded the Simplified Spelling Board from 1906 to 1915. Courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art. It is a little-known fact that Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh’s industry tycoon,…
Fort Pitt During the Revolutionary War: General Brodhead’s Expedition
The American Revolutionary War was a monumental time in history. Today, students across the nation learn about everything from the Boston Massacre and the signing of the Declaration of…
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.…
Will You Sign the Pledge?: Francis Murphy and Pittsburgh’s Great Temperance Movement
It’s a January evening in Pittsburgh in 1877. Thirty churches across the city and surrounding suburbs are bursting with people. In some places, the crowds spill onto the streets…
Local Families, Global Mysteries: Offering Hope and Haven to German Jews
The Eric Moses papers, while not quite as enigmatic as the Marcia Robbins papers (read part one), also speak to the difficulty in arranging Jewish emigration from Germany and…
Local Families, Global Mysteries: Tangled Family Ties, Linking Pittsburgh & Manchuria
Since September 2016, I have been working as the Pitt Partner intern in the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Detre Library & Archives. As an intern,…
Chief Glenna Wallace: First Female Chief of the Eastern Shawnee
Glenna Wallace, chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, talks about the history of the ceremonial peace pipe tomahawk that belonged to the Shawnee leader Tecumseh. When Wallace…
Riot Gear and Red Vests: Remembering 1968 with the Pittsburgh Police Collection
The topic of police-community relations seems to be constantly in the news these days. Many of the questions that we now ask regarding the role of the police and the…
Pittsburgh Aviator Calbraith Perry Rodgers
Calbraith Perry Rodgers in 1911. A young adventurer from Pittsburgh defied odds and changed aviation forever after completing the world’s first transcontinental flight in 1911. Calbraith Perry Rodgers Jr. was…
Freedom and Coal Towns: A Portrait
Wandering the aisles of the Visible Storage exhibition at the Heinz History Center, a visitor can catch a glimpse into an almost-forgotten period of coal mining culture. In the back…