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After several attempts during the early and mid-century to establish a historical society, an organization called Old Residents of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was formed on January 10, 1859. Five years later the group changed its name to Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. In 1911, society members oversaw the planning and ...
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Pa. Mag. Hist. Biogr. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the history of Pennsylvania. It has been published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania since 1877. [1] It is regarded as a prestigious historical journal in the US. [2]
The Catholic Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania traces its roots back to a predecessor organization, the Ohio Valley Catholic Historical Society, which was founded by Msgr. Andrew Arnold Lambing on February 1, 1884. [1] Lambing was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and a prominent early historian of the Catholic ...
Named after U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (1938–1991) from Pennsylvania, it is located in the Strip District of Pittsburgh. The Heinz History Center is a 275,000-square-foot (25,500 m 2) [2] educational institution "that engages and inspires a diverse audience with links to the past, understanding in the present, and guidance for the future ...
Depreciation Lands is the historical term used for a tract of land in Western Pennsylvania, which was purchased by the Pennsylvania 's state government from Native Americans in 1784. The Depreciation Lands, which were split by surveyors, encompassed land from the Ohio River to the south, all the way north the mouth of Mahoning Creek (then known ...
John Smilie (1741 – December 30, 1812) was an Irish-American politician from Newtownards, County Down, Ireland. He served in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House from 1793 until 1795 and from 1799 to 1812. John Smilie Signature.
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.
Leland DeWitt Baldwin (November 23, 1897 - March 6, 1981) was a professor, historian, and writer. He directed the Western Pennsylvania Historical Survey and served as a professor of American history at the University of Pittsburgh. He authored many works, including The Delectable Country (1939), The Stream of American History (1952), and The ...