Not everyone in this football-crazy city has to have a football story, but I do. And after 41 years here, maybe the time is ...

In 1947, filled with courage, skill and determination, Jackie Robinson changed history by becoming the first African American ...

The Duquesne Club Ballroom hummed as 300 guests in tuxedos and floor-length gowns –families, friends, and past debutantes, Prince Charmings, and Cinderellas — gathered for the 100 th Presentation of ...

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.” — Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861) I have always felt that ...

MARY FINGER, PRESIDENT, SETON HILL UNIVERSITY Seton Hill University’s namesake — Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton — was born as the colonies were on the brink of revolution, so the birth of our nation has ...

In 1918–19 in Zurich, Switzerland, English painter Frank Budgen found himself often drinking wine while enjoying long talks about writing with James Joyce, author of the controversial novel Ulysses.

As the nation marks its 250th anniversary this year, the importance of understanding our shared past has never been clearer. Here in Pittsburgh, that moment of reflection is taking shape in a tangible ...

If you remember the scene in David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” when Al Pacino’s character bamboozles some poor sap in a bar with a stream of grandiloquent bullshit, and sells him on a worthless real ...

It’s hard to escape Pittsburgh. Everywhere I go it’s always there, in one way or another. The Statue of Liberty is no exception. At the behest of my 7-year-old grandson, Henry, we booked a visit to ...

Pittsburgh is known for many things, but some of its most significant legacies are largely unknown or underplayed. Among the most famous are as the steel capital of the U.S., with the city’s ...

“The air of Pittsburgh has been thicker today than at any time since the discovery and general use of natural gas,” intoned an unnamed editorialist for the Pittsburgh Post on September 19, 1886. “But ...

A swirl of flour dust hangs in the air, caught in golden morning light as an artisan baker shapes a baguette. Through the expansive windows of Bread Furst, Washington, D.C.’s beloved neighborhood ...