Western Pennsylvania History Magazine Summer 2021

The Summer 2021 issue of Western Pennsylvania History includes feature articles on:

• Pittsburgh’s role in the development of George Catlin’s Indian Gallery, 1833–1836
• Railroad surgeons of Western Pennsylvania
• How Pittsburgh’s radium rescued Marie Curie’s research
• The Flick family’s divergent relationship with Pittsburghese

As well as columns about:

• An inquisition in the “Town of Fort Pitt”
• Sports team “fanimals” and the long relationship between the natural world and athletics
• The architecture of local YMCA buildings
• Citizens Library & District Center
• Curator and collector Michael Kraus
• A Flaherty family connection in the History Center’s collection
• Ida B. Wells and her campaign against racial violence
• The art deco Latonia Theater in Oil City