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Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Doctoral Dissertations Graduate School 5-2018 "Our people are warlike": Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization Allen Christopher York University of Tennessee, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss Recommended Citation York, Allen Christopher, ""Our people are warlike": Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization. " PhD diss., University of Tennessee, 2018. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/4990 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a dissertation written by Allen Christopher York entitled ""Our people are warlike": Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization." I have examined the final electronic copy of this dissertation for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with a major in History. Stephen V. Ash, Major Professor We have read this dissertation and recommend its acceptance: Daniel M. Feller, Martin Griffin,uk L e E. Harlow Accepted for the Council: Dixie L. Thompson Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) “Our people are warlike”: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Allen Christopher York May 2018 Copyright © 2018 Allen Christopher York. -
Getting Around: a Brief History of Monroeville, Pennsylvania
Getting Around: A Brief History of Monroeville, Pennsylvania Louis Chandler, Ph.D. Monroeville Historical Society, Monroeville, Pa. April 2012 _____________________________________________________________________ Contact: http://www.monroevillehistorical.org 2 Contents Part 1: The Beginnings Part 2: Paths and Trails Part 3: Waterways, Creeks and Streams Part 4: By Road and Stagecoach Part 5: The Railroads Part 6: The Age of the Automobila Part 7: Public Transit Part 8: And by Air Part 9: Today’s Monroeville Bibliography Appendix: Monroeville’s Time Line 3 Introduction This brief history focuses on travel and transportation. It tells the story of the paths and trails, streams and creeks, roads, and rails, as they led to the dominance of the automobile in today’s Monroeville. This work draws on a number of sources, including regional histories like those of Solon and Elizabeth Buck, as well as the local histories of Monroeville by Marilyn Chandler, Sarah Thompson, and Virginia Etta Myers, all of which helped to provide context. Thanks are due to the staffs of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Room, as well as the Monroeville Public Library, and especially Mark Hudson and Marlene Dean; and to Victoria Vargo of the Braddock’s Field Historical Society, and Gary Rogers of the Allegheny Foothills Historical Society; and to Judith Harvey of the Frank B. Fairbanks Archives at the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation. Historical maps of the area were especially useful in tracing the course of various streams and creeks, and in the following the evolution of the road system. A special note of thanks goes to Lynn Chandler, and to Monroeville’s Director of Community Development, Shelly Kaltenbaugh, and Jamie Storey from the Planning Office, who helped the author make sense of Monroeville’s rich and varied topography. -
University of Cincinnati
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Date:___________________ I, _________________________________________________________, hereby submit this work as part of the requirements for the degree of: in: It is entitled: This work and its defense approved by: Chair: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Post-Industrial Palimpsest: Maintaining Place and Layers of History A thesis submitted to the Division of Research and Advanced Studies of the University of Cincinnati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture in the School of Architecture and Interior Design 2004 by Matthew D. Stevenson B.S. Arch., University of Cincinnati, 2001 Committee Chair: David Saile Committee Members: Gordon Simmons Jeffrey Tilman ABSTRACT Industry, formerly defining the identity of Pittsburgh, has mostly moved away from the city. The resultant post-industrial landscape is littered with abandoned industrial buildings. These buildings facing disuse or demolition are the urban artifacts that once contributed to the sense of place. The loss of these artifacts has negative effects not only on the particular place but also on the broader urban environment. The reuse of these buildings is important to make them a valued piece of architecture once again. Place is immersed in layers of history. The destruction of the post-industrial landscape separates and tears those layers of history. While maintaining a connection to the industrial past is important, it is necessary not to overlook all the layers of pre- and post-industrial history. These are elements of the place. The conversion of unused industrial buildings can start to maintain the sense of place. The fuller sense of place may be realized in an architecture of palimpsest. -
“Hell with the Lid Taken Off:” a Cultural History of Air
“HELL WITH THE LID TAKEN OFF:” A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AIR POLLUTION – PITTSBURGH A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Angela Gugliotta, B.S., M.A., M.A. _____________________________ Christopher Hamlin, Director Graduate Program in History Notre Dame, Indiana December 2004 © Copyright by ANGELA GUGLIOTTA 2004 All rights reserved “HELL WITH THE LID TAKEN OFF:” A CULTURAL HISTORY OF AIR POLLUTION – PITTSBURGH Abstract by Angela Gugliotta Pittsburgh has been known for coal smoke since its founding. Yet no comprehensive study exists of the meaning of smoke to the city. Urban pollution is usually discussed in terms of problem and solution. Such narratives seldom do justice to the mixed losses and benefits inherent in historical outcomes or to the ambiguous motives and capacities of historical actors. This dissertation asks when, for whom, and why smoke became a problem in Pittsburgh. More broadly, it examines the rich variety of roles smoke played in urban history. Pittsburgh began as a frontier settlement. The smoky spectacle described in travelers’ accounts advertised its abundant coal and industrial promise. Valued for economic potential rather than civic culture, Pittsburgh’s future seemed precarious. Environmental sacrifice shored up its uncertain prospects. Nuisance judgements and local newspapers characterized opposition to smoke as a threat to economic necessity – arising from luxurious and vicious tastes of coddled and Angela Gugliotta feminized elites. By the 1880s technological changes, especially the introduction of natural gas, broke connections between particular production processes and economic success. -
Pittsburgh,^ Industrial Contributions to Civil War SOME ASPECTS OF
Pittsburgh,^ Industrial Contributions to Civil War 9 SOME ASPECTS OF PITTSBURGH'S INDUSTRIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CIVIL WAR. Pittsburgh as an industrial and commercial center is today universally known. Its position among the cities of the United States is unique. As a manufacturing center it is more noted since the products particularly of the steel mills are shipped to all parts of the world, Such epithets as "Smoky City," "Steel City" and the "Birmingham of America" bear witness to the fact. The above could not be said of Pittsburgh prior to the Civil War. At that time it was known as the "key to the west," being the appropriate name given by those hardy, restless pioneers, who were tired of eastern aristocracy and desired to found a better home in the democratic west. Still, the position of Pittsburgh as the "key to the west" remains, but far different is her present position as such. It is no longer a pathway whereby settlers can enter the virgin forest and field of the west, but on the other hand is a point where many other cities buy their supplies. At the time when the Southern States were seriously contemplating secession, Pittsburgh would seem (to the average man of today) to be in a precarious position. It had been accustomed to ship coal, iron, agricultural imple- ments, and other products to the South. Itwould have been, therefore, not unnatural for its inhabitants and business men to at least sympathize with the seceding states. Noth- ing, however, could be farther from the truth. Immediately after the election of Lincoln, the South- ern States started on a period of gigantic seizure of govern- ment property. -
Made in Pittsburgh
An early train in the region arrives at Natrona, Pa., October 20, 1866. Photograph Robert M. Cargo, courtesy Wilkinsburg Historical Society. 16 WESTERNPENNSYLVANIA HISTORY | S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 MADE IN 2PITTSBURGH 1850–1900 rowds cheered as the final track of the Pennsylvania Railroad connected C Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in 1852. The railroad opened a new age of industrial growth in the city. Much faster than a canal boat or wagon, it moved Pittsburgh products to the ready markets of the East and the growing markets in the West. Demand for arms during the Civil War further accelerated the local economy and created the first great fortunes in the region, building a foundation of capital that helped fuel unprecedented growth in industry, enterprise, and wealth. Everyone wanted a piece of the prosperity—unregulated but rife with risk. The chance of failure was great, but This early the promise of reward shined brighter. Inventors, Westinghouse coffee maker has speculators, and dreamers came to Pittsburgh to make a screw plug to match light sockets something—a product, a fortune, friends with capital and of the period. Gift of Harold Ashcom. connections, or perhaps a new life with the promise of steady work. A local culture of new ideas—some borrowed, many adapted, others revolutionary—blossomed after the Civil War. WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY | S P R I N G 2 0 0 9 17 Thomas Rodman First national Thomas Rodman invents A union of iron develops bullet press convention of cannon powders and a puddlers forms at Allegheny Arsenal Republican Party cannon pressure gauge first national held in Pittsburgh iron union 1855 1856 1858 Samuel M.