H.J. Heinz never forgot his Sharpsburg roots and friends. (11/15/2009)

By the time Harry Davis and John Harris opened their Nickelodeon on Smithfield Street in June 1905, Pittsburgh theatergoers had been watching flickering images on screens for almost a decade. (10/18/2009)

Some men are just born to suffer bad luck. That's how The Pittsburgh Press described mine superintendent Fred C. Keighley on its editorial page. (10/04/2009)

When Nellie Bly's train stopped at Pittsburgh's Union station, the Armstrong County-born reporter was completing a journey that would make her one of the best-known journalists in the country. (08/23/2009)

When Samuel Gompers arrived here in November 1881 for a National Labor Congress, The Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette was apprehensive. (08/09/2009)