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The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic
Who is Matt Cvetic? Hero? Scoundrel? Mole? The man who loosely provided the inspiration for the B-Grade cult movie I Was a Communist for the FBI had a...
Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914โ1960
This book explores the relation between democracy and industrialization in United States history. Over the course of the 1930s, the political center a...
A telling look at the lives and strategies of women environmental activists in the long 1960s, solidly grounded in a national context...
Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel pr...
Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh
Philanthropy has long been associated with images of industrial titans and wealthy families. In Pittsburgh, long a center for industry, the shadows of...
Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age
American evangelicalism often appears as a politically monolithic, textbook red-state fundamentalism that elected George W. Bush, opposes gay marriage...
Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities
The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving commun...
A History of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1750-2006
In the conflicted world that is today's Episcopal Church, the diocese of Pittsburgh stands both as a symbol of dissent and schism to the liberal major...
An American Story
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of...
How Congress Trumps Executive Power
A comprehensive and path-breaking study of what happens behind the scenes before presidents publicly announce to the Senate--and, thus, the nation--th...
Health Care and Economic Transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston
In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declar...
Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure leg...
From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps
Examines the environmental benefits and issues of the Great Lakes through a look at the commercialization, recreation, and population of the businesse...
Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman
He was not much of a player and not much more of a manager, but by the time Branch Rickey (1881-1965) finished with baseball, he had revolutionized th...
Discourses of Disability
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality...
His Life, Work, and Imagination
Long before anyone had heard of alien cookbooks, gremlins on the wings of airplanes, or places where pig-faced people are considered beautiful, Rod Se...
For over a century, Chicago has played soccer. This work explains the early history of the game in the Second City, beginning with the 1887 formation ...
Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear
In 1962, James Meredith became a civil rights hero when he enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi. Four years...
The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century
Completed in 1931, New Yorkโs Waldorf-Astoria towers over Park Avenue as an international landmark and a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. A sym...
A History of the AFL-CIO since 1979
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO wa...
The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low
From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant Geor...
Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in ...
The Life and Legend of Baseball's Greatest Forgotten Player
2020 SABR Seymour Medal 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker ro...
How Corporate America Invented Christian America
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and...
The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American West
Cyprinodon diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death V...
The Tappan Zee Megaproject
Winner of the 2015 American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter Journalism Award The State of New York is now building one of the worldโs lo...
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Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia
Long considered an urban phenomenon, industrialization also transformed the American countryside. Lou Martin weaves the narrative of how the relocatio...
POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War
Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establi...
The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman was the Larry David, the Adam Sandler, the Sacha Baron Cohen of 1963. He led Jewish humor and sensibilities out of ethnic enclaves and i...
The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822
Using both primary and secondary sources, this text provides a comprehensive account of the Vesey conspiracy of 1822. It contains the complete, verbat...
The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry
With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and au...
A History of Aeronautics in Pennsylvania
A comprehensive study of the history of manned flight in the state of Pennsylvania, from hot-air balloons to supersonic jets....
The Surprising History of an Iconic Song
"God Bless America" is a song most Americans know well. It is taught in American schools and regularly performed at sporting events. After the attacks...
Creating a Chicago Landmark
"Upon opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millennium Park was hailed as one of the world's most important millennium projects. Timothy Gilfoyle's biog...
Trademarks
Not all workers' needs were served by the union. Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company e...