Uncovering America’s First Oil Landscape
In Pennsylvania’s Oil Creek Valley, the messy legacy of the country’s first petroleum boom.
The Great Railroad Strike in Pittsburgh
Excerpted from "An Alternative History of Pittsburgh."
These Trespasses
"All over McKean County, we claimed the unwanted spaces that adults had left behind."
Not Another Working-Class Youngstown Story
An excerpt from "Car Bombs to Cookie Tables: The Youngstown Anthology 2nd Edition."
The Restoration of Maxo Vanka’s Working-Class, Immigrant Murals
On the walls of a Pittsburgh-area church, twenty-five scenes of God, war, justice, family.
Loiterers
A requiem for the small-town "hang-arounds."