'A timely, consequential work from one of our greatest historians, Building the Black City is a r...

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.This...

Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after Worl...

'Few scholars have contributed more than Joe W. Trotter to Black labor history. His latest book, ...

'During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeki...

The Ohio River once symbolized the passage of blacks from slavery to freedom along the undergroun...

The Ohio River once symbolized the passage of blacks from slavery to freedom along the undergroun...

As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and ra...

'During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeki...

This collection brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experien...

Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Deter...