History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Background Knowledge: The Steel Industry in Pittsburgh, the Workers, and the Impact of Deindustrialization
  5. A Public History Project: Reflecting on Eliza: A Pittsburgh Steel Mill
  6. Beyond the Walls of the Classroom: Other Examples of Public History Projects
  7. Strategies
  8. Activities
  9. Applications for Other Cities
  10. Appendix
  11. Bibliography
  12. Notes

Pittsburgh: Contending with its Steel Past

Tracy Watkins

Published September 2015

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Notes

  1. Lubove, Roy. Twentieth-century Pittsburgh; Government, Business, and Environmental (New York: Wiley, 1969), 4.
  2. "A Very Brief History of Pittsburgh." A Very Brief History of Pittsburgh. Accessed July   15, 2015.
  3. Lubove, Roy. Twentieth-century Pittsburgh; Government, Business, and Environmental (New York: Wiley, 1969), 5.
  4. Fitch, John A. The Steel Workers. (New York: Arno, 1969), 351.
  5. Byington, Margaret F. Homestead; the Households of a Mill Town. (New York: Arno,   1969), 7.
  6. Lubove, Roy. Twentieth-century Pittsburgh the Post-steel Era, 25.
  7. Fitch, John A. The Steel Workers. (New York: Arno, 1969), 125.
  8. Ibid, 153.
  9. Ibid, 154.
  10. Ibid, 153.
  11. Ibid, 11.
  12. Perrott, Mark. Eliza: Remembering a Pittsburgh Steel Mill. Charlottesville, (Va.:    Howell Press, 1989), 33..
  13. "Ecology and Society: Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs." Ecology and Society: Industrial Restructuring and Urban Change in the Pittsburgh Region: Developmental, Ecological, and Socioeconomic Trade-offs. Accessed July 08, 2015.
  14. Hathaway, Dale A. Can Workers Have a Voice?: The Politics of Deindustrialization in   Pittsburgh. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.
  15. Pittsburgh, 1758-2008. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub., 2008.
  16. Gimpel, James G. Separate Destinations Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
  17. Perrott, Mark. Eliza: Remembering a Pittsburgh Steel Mill. Charlottesville, (Va.: Howell Press, 1989), 38
  18. Ibid, 42.
  19. Ibid, 48.
  20. Ibid, 50.
  21. "Tours." Rivers of Steel -. Accessed July 10, 2015.
  22. "Projects." Battle of Homestead Foundation. Accessed July 10, 2015.

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