Mark Whitaker. Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Illustrations. xxi + 404 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5011-2239-2.
Reviewed by Kate Lukaszewicz (Sewickely Academy) Published on H-Pennsylvania (September, 2018) Commissioned by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward (Shippensburg University)
Allen Dieterich-Ward. Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 360 pp. $37.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-4767-1.
Reviewed by Mariel Isaacson (Grace Church School) Published on H-Pennsylvania (July, 2017) Commissioned by Tammy Nemeth
Dan Rooney, Carol Peterson. Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh's North Side. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 264 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4422-5.
Reviewed by Joseph Cialdella Published on H-Environment (November, 2013) Commissioned by David T. Benac
Allegheny City and the Making of Today's Pittsburgh
Angelique Bamberg. Chatham Village: Pittsburgh's Garden City. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. Illustrations. 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4406-5.
Reviewed by Jonathan Anzalone (Stony Brook University) Published on H-Environment (September, 2011) Commissioned by David T. Benac
The Best Laid Schemes for Environments and Men?
Joe W. Trotter, Jared N. Day. Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 304 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4391-4.
Reviewed by Matthew J. Smalarz (University of Rochester) Published on H-Urban (March, 2011) Commissioned by Wendy Plotkin
Edward Steven Slavishak. Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. x + 354 pp. Illustrations. $89.95 (library), ISBN 978-0-8223-4206-9; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8223-4225-0.
Reviewed by Will Cooley (Department of History, Walsh University) Published on H-Urban (December, 2008) Commissioned by Sharon L. Irish
John F. Bauman, Edward K. Muller. Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. xiv + 331 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-5930-4.
Reviewed by Sherie Mershon (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Urban (February, 2007)
A Pittsburgh Story
Gregory J. Crowley. The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh. PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. x + 207 pp. $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8229-5890-1.
Reviewed by Kent James (Department of History, Washington and Jefferson College.) Published on H-Urban (May, 2006)
Examining Urban Redevelopment.
Reposted from SEELANGS. --ed.
On Friday, 27 March 2020, the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) and the European Studies Center (ESC) offers its annual European and Eurasian Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS). Limited travel grants are available for accepted participants outside the Pittsburgh region.
2nd Annual Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes African Studies Conference
Pondering African Futures: Technologies and Strategies for Growth
May 11, 2019
