Derek G. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. This interview is based on his new book, Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, 2024). […]
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Pittsburgh and the Great Migration
Over at Black Perspectives, historian Adam Lee Cilli introduces us to “Migrant Voices,” a website collecting oral history interviews of African Americans who migrated from the rural South to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania between 1915 and 1930. It is an amazing resource. […]
The Author’s Corner with Zachary Brodt
Zachary Brodt is the University Archivist and Records Manager for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. This interview is based on his new book, From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition (University of […]
David Mills loves Pittsburgh
When he was an editor at Touchstone Magazine, David Mills published a longform piece I wrote on the perils of providential history. He is now the associate editorial page editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. And he loves his adopted hometown. […]
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RIP Franco Harris.
Columnist Tony Norman leaves the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tony Norman’s piece on Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama appeared at Current on our launch day–April 5, 2021. We are hoping our friend will now have more time to write for us! Here is a taste of his farewell column […]
Organizing arts and culture workers at Andrew Carnegie’s library
In a brilliant essay at The Baffler, Daisy Pitkin, a union organizer and writer from Pittsburgh, weaves the story of Andrew Carnegie, the Johnstown Flood, and the recent unionization of workers at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. It is worth […]
“…never forget that God is the giver of all good things”
Letter to the Editor, The Pittsburgh Press, April 22, 1955