Videos
The Battle of Homestead Foundation YouTube channel hosts videos of our live events, along with special programs like The Maxo Vanka Murals, Ceremonial River Blessing and Water Healing Ritual
and The River Ran Red: Homestead, PA, 1892. Learn more by visiting here.
Pump House Gang and What They Do
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...
Working Class Images Art Exhibit
October, 2017 was the opening of the Battle of Homestead art exhibit: “Working Class Images”. The artists painted and photographed the essence of the Pittsburgh steel working families, neighborhoods and religious connections. This video captures the Pittsburgh working...
The Maxo Vanka Murals
This short promotional video was commissioned for use prior to formal fundraising for the restoration of the Maxo Vanka murals shown. The historical photos of the artist at work were provided by the Vanka family and St. Nicholas Croatian Church, Pittsburgh, PA....
Ceremonial River Blessing and Water Healing Ritual
In commemoration of the 1892 Battle of Homestead that led to the advancement of how labor relations are now framed, we gather together encircling the environment with Native American shamans, Tibetan lamas and healing practitioners leading a ritual of focus...
Steelworkers: Then and Now
Historians discuss the importance of oral history, and steelworkers from "Back in the Day' and current steelworkers tell their stories of life in the mill and changes in the industry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjx9d21tWr4
Willa Cather in Pittsburgh
Willa Cather, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature, lived in Pittsburgh for ten years, working as a teacher as well as a journalist and editor. "The Pittsburgh Stories of Willa Cather", edited by Battle of Homestead Foundation board member, the late Peter...
Our Families in the Battle Homestead
Presentation by author Trilby Busch. "Darkness Visible: A Novel of the 1892 Homestead Strike.", recreates the experiences of the workers and townspeople who witnessed the strike and battle firsthand. Descendants of members of the strike committee will also share their...
Actor Mark Rylance Commemorates 125th Anniversary Of Battle Of Homestead
From KDKA TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63iXIRIWbuU
William Beik Memorial September 17, 2017
This film is a visual remembrance of the life of William (Bill) Beik, an eminent French professor and historian. He died on August 31, 2017. Bill was a member of the Battle of Homestead Foundation. On September 17, 2017, the Foundation honored Bill at a memorial...
Mark Rylance “Battle of Homestead Remembered”
This is a documentary film about the July 6, 2017 Battle of Homestead foundation event “Ceremony at the Gravesites Battle of Homestead Heroes”. This event commemorates the six fallen workers killed during the infamous 1892 Homestead Strike in Homestead, PA. The Battle...
“15,000 Miles on 48 Cents”
Joe Szalanski was an immigrant steel worker who lived in the early 1900's. His father and friends worked long hours in the hot and dangerous steel mills. Not wanting to follow in their footsteps, he left the area for jobs elsewhere. When the Great Depression threw him...
The 2017 Bernard Kleiman Memorial Lecture: Napoleón Gómez Urrutia
The Bernard Kleiman (Sponsored by the United Steelworkers) lecture brings a speaker each year with knowledge of the international labor market to the Pump House to address a contemporary labor issue. This year we were pleased to welcome Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, who has...