An alternative history of Pittsburgh
(Book)

part I. Ox and sovereign spirit : land, people, and beginnings (c. 300 million BCE-1799): A leaf transformed into coal ; The pre-Clovis ; The great peacemaker ; Land granted ; Mass at Fort Duquesne ; General Braddock's defeat ; Biological warfare at Fort Pitt ; The ill-fated colony ; "Modern chivalry" ; The first iron forge ; Whiskey rebels march ; Sganyadái:yo

part II. City of brick and tired wood : industry, labor, and growth (1800-1899): Harmony ; "Beautiful dreamer" ; Free soil ; The great fire ; A Scottish immigrant comes to Allegheny ; A nativist in Market Square ; The birth of the Grand Old Party ; Fenian raids ; The Great Railroad Strike ; The "Pittsburgh platform" ; The attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick ; Carnegie International

part III. A consequence of America : rise, fall, and reinvention (1900-): The red velvet swing ; The Pittsburgh agreement ; A Cathedral of Learning ; An activist in the making ; Joe Magarac in "Scribner's" ; The Vanka murals ; Billy Strayhorn meets Duke Ellington ; Horseshoe Curve ; The Frank Lloyd Wright plan ; A Gladstone High School dropout ; World Series Champions ; Coca-Cola and Marilyn Monroe ; The Hill District riots ; The Immaculate Reception ; Shadyside Presbyterian

Afterword: An East Liberty parable.