University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
Pittsburgh Sports
Stories From The Steel City
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh Sports captures all that and more. With stories from sports fans, historians, and former athletes, Pittsburgh Sports mixes personal experiences with team...
Devastation and Renewal
An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three strong waterways, abundant forests, rich seams of coal-the city experienced a century of exploitation and industrialization that degraded and obscured the...
Chuck Noll
His Life's Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the ‘70s. Later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his achievements as a competitor and a coach are the stuff of legend. But Noll always remained an intensely...
Race and Renaissance
African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s,...
Founding Families Of Pittsburgh
The Evolution Of A Regional Elite 1760-1910
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class...
Pathways to Our Sustainable Future
A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Pittsburgh has a rich history of social consciousness in calls for justice and equity. Today, the movement for more sustainable practices is rising in Pittsburgh. Against a backdrop of Marcellus shale gas development, initiatives emerge for a sustainable and resilient response to the climate change...
Palace of Culture
Andrew Carnegie's Museums and Library in Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Andrew Carnegie is remembered as one of the world’s great philanthropists. As a boy, he witnessed the benevolence of a businessman who lent his personal book collection to laborer’s apprentices. That early experience inspired Carnegie to create the “Free to the People” Carnegie Library in...
Chatham Village
Pittsburgh's Garden City
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international...
Mister Rogers Neighborhood
Children Television And Fred Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 1997
Foreword by Bob Garfield. Afterword by Marian Wright Edelman
Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the...
Queen for a Day
Selected And New Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2001
"Somewhere between Sex and the City, Sharon Olds and Spalding Grey lies the poetry of Denise Duhamel, who in six volumes during the 1990s (all from small independent or small university presses) established herself as a vivacious, sarcastic, uninhibited and sometimes sex-obsessed observer of...
The Blues Walked In
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
In 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel’s orchestra, nineteen-year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father’s hotel in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. She stops at a lemonade stand and meets a...
by Arthur Burgoyne
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1979
In 1893 Arthur Burgoyne, one of Pittsburgh’s most skilled and sensitive journalists, published Homestead, a complete history of the 1892 Homestead strike and the ensuing conflict between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers. Accurate, readable, and...
The Slide
Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
In the deciding game of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Pittsburgh Pirates suffered the most dramatic and devastating loss in team history when former Pirate Sid Bream slid home with the winning run. Bream’s infamous slide ended the last game played by...
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Winner of the 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Award (poetry category)
This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy by Afaa Michael Weaver, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The two earlier books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar...