I suppose I wondered if the day held any omens, and therefore I was stunned to read the following account from October 27, 1905: “A pogrom occurs in Semenovka, Russia. Looting and burning of Jewish property accompanies the slaughter of the Jews—11 are massacred, 11 are gravely wounded.” The same day, the same toll, separated by 113 years and by the wide ocean between the cruel Old World and the promise of North America. What did it mean?
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October 20, 2020
Pittsburgh Women in Business: Celebrating National Women’s Small Business Month
In honor of National Women’s Small Business month, here are four more stories of women in business told through the collection of the Heinz History Center:
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September 25, 2020
80th Anniversary of the Jeep
Happy 80th anniversary to the jeep, the tough motorized vehicle manufactured in 1940 by the American Bantam Car Company in Butler, Pa.
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