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.
The River Ran Red
The violence that erupted at Carnegie Steel's giant Homestead mill near Pittsburgh on July 6. 1892, caused a congressional investigation and trials for treason, motivated a nearly successful assassination attempt on Frick, contributed to the defeat of President...
The Lilly Story.
In 1924 the little central Pennsylvania town of Lilly, near Altoona, was targeted for a massive Ku Klux Klan demonstration because local coal mines hired Catholic immigrants and fired Klan members. The residents of Lilly engaged the Klan forcing the Klansmen to flee...
Historical Plaque Dedication at the Pump House, April 21, 2016
BHF, in partnership with Steel Valley School District, hosted an afternoon program commemorating the legendary resistance of Homestead steelworkers and townspeople against their 1892 lockout from the Carnegie Steel Works — known in history books as the “Battle of...
American Labor History Video Series
The Wisconsin Labor History Society is pleased to announce the availability of a six-part video series, “An Historical Overview of Labor Unions in the United States.” Each segment is heavily illustrated and takes us through the struggle to organize from centuries past...
“Boarding the Westbound”
Produced by BHF member Pauline Greenlick, this is a 14 minute documentary film about the life of Joseph Szalanski, a steelworker from East Vandergrift, PA. His son, Joe Szalanski, a BHF member, wrote a book, “Boarding the Westbound” about his father who was born into...
Out of This Furnace ~ The Walking Tour
David P. Demarest (November 9, 1931 – October 15, 2011). One of the founding members of the Battle of Homestead Foundation, Dave tirelessly advocated for preserving this region’s immigrant culture,...