Product Description: The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the city in 1845 and Lincoln's speech urging residents to shun talk of secession--all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors. Since 1786, the paper has covered local events, and reporter Len Barcousky is a part of this long tradition...read more

Offering a history of Pittsburgh from the perspective of the citizens who made up the great American city, a collection of biographical profiles looks at the lives and accomplishments of men and women who transformed the Pennsylvania city built on the convergence of three rivers, including politicians, pioneers, athletes, scientists, entertainers, writers, and more. Original.

Product Description: David M. Shribman, Executive Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and nationally syndicated columnist, spent more than a year traveling America and asking everyone he met to recall a favorite teacher. His collection of testimonials became the briskly selling book, I Remember My Teacher: 365 Reminiscences of the Teachers Who Changed Our Lives, on which this new calendar is based...read more

Product Description: Over the course of a year writer David Shribman questioned virtually everyone he encountered about the role teachers had played in their lives. The result is this extrordinary collection of personal remembrances of teachers, relayed by people from all walks of life...read more

Product Description: This lively new Reader, addressed particularly to Dartmouth graduates, students, and friends, will also appeal to others interested in the history of higher education in America. "While preparing this volume," the editors write, "we developed fresh appreciation for that peculiar slice of humankind known as the men and women of Dartmouth, who in Hanover learn to analyze the verse of Milton, explore fluid dynamics, wrestle with Lu Xun, confront Aquinas, discover radiogenic isotope geochemistry, climb Moosilauke, build their own kayaks, sharpen an ax with a dual-grip handstone, and slip across a snowy campus on cross-country skis to an early morning class on Flaubert...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)