Dance slippers, pumpkins and lost cufflinks: A history of the Cinderella Ball
Pittsburgh's debutante ball has the second-longest run of any such event in the country
View ArticleThe Fort Pitt Blockhouse Lodge and Aunt Mollie
For decades a narrow home stood guard over the famous redoubt.
View ArticlePittsburgh’s Candyland
“I want a Clark Bar!” Though usually heard coming from the mouth of a cartoon…
View ArticlePittsburgh’s Forgotten Beer War
As families slept in apartments lining the 1900 block of Forbes Avenue, a car quietly…
View ArticleHeartbreak and tenderness in a steel town
Tragedy in the 1940s revealed true compassion in Duquesne
View ArticleCy Hungerford: Pittsburgh’s cartooning chronicler
The Parkersburg Social Rebel was a West Virginia newspaper so small that it’s hard to…
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 ArticleHistory Unfolded: U.S. newspapers and the Holocaust
For the past two years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has embarked on an…
View ArticleProtesting the 7 cent lunch and other uprisings at Gladstone
Students at the Hazelwood school have a history of speaking out.
View ArticleD-Day on Pittsburgh’s front pages
Above: The front pages of three Pittsburgh newspapers on June 6, 1944. The Post-Gazette was…
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