With the armistice ending the First World War, signed November 11, 1918, manufacturing demand fell and unemployment swelled. Social pressures already exacerbated by wartime labor practices, inflation and postwar corporate repression of unions, only deepened as economic activity slowed. The…
As we are all painfully aware, in the last three weeks our world has drastically changed. Most of us are confined to our homes practicing social distancing, a necessary but repugnant protocol opposite from our social values. I fervently hope…
On August 26, 1919, Fannie Sellins, organizer for the mine workers’ union was brutally murdered by Coal and Iron Police outside a mine entry in Natrona Heights when she attempted to intervene in the beating of a picketer. Born Fannie…
Pauline Greenlick, of the Battle of Homestead Foundation, filmed and edited this video. The Pennsylvania Labor History Society recognized four labor activists at their 2018 Annual Banquet for their lifelong interest in preserving the history of working men and women…
The 2018 theme was Conflict and Compromise in History. A group exhibit in the Junior category became one of the most rewarded entries using the Battle of Homestead as the topic. Students Robyn, Sophia, and Amelia, eighth-graders at Peters Township…
James Hohman, a now-retired graphic artist from Pitt, and a two-decades member of the Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF), filmed a myriad of BHF-connected site visits, historic marker celebrations, and expert interviews of little-known but significant moments in the region’s…
From the late August Wilson, one of America’s greatest playwrights and creator of award-winning titles like Fences and Jitney, comes this autobiographical tour de force. How I Learned… follows Wilson’s personal, provocative, funny and heartfelt story as a struggling…
Saturday, September 1, 2018, 10 AM – 5 PM To be held at the Wheeling Academy-Law & Science Foundation The First State Capitol Building 1413 Eoff Street Wheeling, WV 26003 The date of the symposium is appropriate as it is the…
WASHINGTON, D.C—Around the world middle and high school students are taking their learning beyond the textbook with the annual National History Day Contest. This project-based contest provides students an opportunity to demonstrate their historical research skills through one of five…
The world's largest steel-producing plant is gone, replaced by a shopping complex, but those who worked in the mills want people to remember what once was. The Homestead Works of U.S. Steel, which at one time produced nearly a third of…