An Alternative History of Pittsburgh
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Ed Simon tells the story of Pittsburgh through this collection of explorations of its hidden histories—one of Newsweek's «21 Best Books to Read This Spring.» The land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. In the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed utterly and many times over by the people who call it home. In this brief, lyrical, and idiosyncratic new book, Ed Simon follows the story of America's furnace through a series of interconnected segments, covering all manner of Pittsburgh-beloved people, places, and things, including: Paleolithic Pittsburgh The Whiskey Rebellion The attempted assassination of Henry Frick The Harmonists The Mystery, Pittsburgh's radical, Black nationalist newspaper The myth of Joe Magarac and Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Andy Warhol, and much much more Accessible, conversational, and funny, An Alternative History of Pittsburgh is a must-read for anyone curious about this storied city, and for Pittsburghers who think they know it all-too-well already.
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Acknowledgments and Dedication
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. OX AND SOVEREIGN SPIRIT
300 MILLION BCE
A Leaf Transformed into Coal
C. 19,000 BCE
The Pre-Clovis
C. 1142
The Great Peacemaker
1680
Land Granted
1754
Mass at Fort Duquesne
1755
General Braddock’s Defeat
1763
Biological Warfare at Fort Pitt
1769
The Ill-Fated Vandalia Colony
1792
Modern Chivalry
1793
The First Iron Forge
1794
Whiskey Rebels March
1798
Sganyadái:yo
PART II. CITY OF BRICK AND TIRED WOOD
1804
Harmony
1826
“Beautiful Dreamer”
1831
Free Soil
1845
The Great Fire
1848
A Scottish Immigrant Comes to Allegheny
1849
A Nativist in Market Square
1856
The Birth of the Grand Old Party
1866
Fenian Raids
1877
The Great Railroad Strike
1885
The Pittsburgh Platform
1892
The Attempted Assassination of Henry Clay Frick
1896
Carnegie International
PART III. A CONSEQUENCE OF AMERICA
1906
The Red Velvet Swing
1918
The Pittsburgh Agreement
1924
A Cathedral of Learning
1928
An Activist in the Making
1931
Joe Magarac in Scribner’s
1937
The Vanka Murals
1938
Billy Strayhorn Meets Duke Ellington
1942
Horseshoe Curve
1949
The Frank Lloyd Wright Plan
1960
A Gladstone High School Dropout
1960
World Series Champions
1962
Coca-Cola and Marilyn Monroe
1968
The Hill District Riots
1972
The Immaculate Reception
1985
Shadyside Presbyterian
AFTERWORD. An East Liberty Parable