By 1763, the British settlements and forts along what was then the Western frontier in Western Pennsylvania and Ohio were either captured, destroyed or besieged by an unp...
Pittsburgh was founded in 1758 by Scottish Gen. John Forbes when he took control over the area from the French. It is named in honor of the British statesman William Pitt...
The first days of the newly formed United States were fraught ones.
In 1789, following the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, a new form of government came into exist...
For everything historians know about the boat that helped carry the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the vast Louisiana Territory starting in 1803, there are some surprisi...
The War of 1812 was the closing fight of the American Revolution and the first war that declared a brand new nation, setting the United States on the path to a place on t...
Today, if it’s remembered at all, the Erie Canal is best known as the subject of a folk song, “Low Bridge Everybody Down” or “Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal.”
But, accor...
Nearly every great city has been impacted by a great fire.
Rome had the 64 A.D. fire that the Emperor Nero would try to blame on early Christians. London had the 1666 con...
It’s impossible to know who the first person to discover oil on the banks of Oil Creek in Venango County was, because by the time settlers arrived, Native Americans had b...
With its rich deposits of coal and iron ore and access to river transportation, Western Pennsylvania became the birthplace of the American steel industry. It also became ...
