As the nation marks its 250th anniversary this year, the importance of understanding our shared past has never been clearer.

Throughout western Pennsylvania’s big steel era, artists captured a compelling visual record of the industry’s rise and fall: ...

If you remember the scene in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” when Al Pacino’s character bamboozles some poor sap in a bar ...

Just outside the city of Jeannette, in Westmoreland County, about a 45-minute drive east of Pittsburgh, is a new preserve of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy called Oakford Park Nature Reserve.

It’s hard to escape Pittsburgh. Everywhere I go it’s always there, in one way or another. The Statue of Liberty is no exception. At the behest of my 7-year-old grandson, Henry, we booked a visit to ...

Every July Fourth, as the last light fades behind the hills that cup this city on three sides, something old and immigrant-born rises above the rivers. The barges are already in position a mile below ...

I love outbuildings: springhouses, woodsheds, barns, cottages, tractor sheds. I’d have more if I could — a tool shed, a sugar house, a summer kitchen, a cider house. We have a small wooden building we ...

It’s somewhat unusual to buy a house without ever seeing it, as christy redican and her husband, cardiologist Fran Redican, did when they purchased their historic home in Fox Chapel 16 years ago. They ...

Though he couldn’t keep his job after the Pittsburgh Pirates spun their wheels to begin the 2025 season, former skipper Derek Shelton could recognize the baseball man who best embodied the qualities ...

On April 26, I got a brief email from Marty McGuinn complimenting me on a remembrance column I’d written a few days earlier on Dick Simmons. I thanked Marty and added, “I’ve only helped two guys with ...

Pittsburgh Quarterly has once again been recognized as the leading magazine in Western Pennsylvania journalism, winning eight Golden Quills in the 62nd annual Golden Quill Awards, sponsored by the ...

If the biosciences are to medicine what steel was to manufacturing, then Pittsburgh is on the cusp of its next great economic boom. Ashok Trivedi believes that we are. Trivedi is so bullish on the ...