The Ku Klux Klan and a family photo album
During a visit to his parent’s home in Bridgeville this past summer, Paul Ludwick sat…
View ArticlePorcelain door sleds, uncle Zeus and other stories of Mine 3
For those living in a cluster of "company" houses along Route 88, life was colorful and sometimes thrilling.
View ArticleProtesting the 7 cent lunch and other uprisings at Gladstone
Students at the Hazelwood school have a history of speaking out.
View ArticleStudents seize Pitt’s computer center to force change
Members of the newly formed Black Action Society made a radical move after negotiations stalled
View ArticleThe lost issues of the Pittsburgh Courier
A decade of important journalism is missing from local and national archives. Maybe you can help fill the gap.
View ArticleThe life and death of Pittsburgh’s political brawler
John J. Verona was "boss" of the Hill; his funeral was unlike any other in the district.
View ArticleRecords reveal 1918 influenza’s devastating impact on a tiny Pittsburgh...
Few noticed as the pandemic struck a cultural oasis not far from the city's centers of power.
View ArticleMemories of a strange confinement
A band of escaped prisoners, some with violent pasts, once descended on a Washington County family.
View ArticleThe day a prince visited the Mon Valley
By Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette Nothing was clear when Prince Charles of Great Britain stepped off a…
View ArticleThe nation’s first armored car robbery took place here in 1927
By Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette William Tarr worked as a chauffeur and a salesman before landing a…
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