The Historical Dilettante

  An alphabetical linked index to the stories about Pittsburgh history on this blog. Abraham Lincoln's Valentine to Pittsburgh Allegheny...

An enterprising local woman provided airline passengers and workers with fine dining options beginning in the late 1920s. The first airplane...

This salacious headline appeared one hundred years ago on the front page of the Pittsburgh Press . That word, orgy? It didn't quite ...

Three Elegant Ladies, Alice Barber Stevens, private collection Gossip. Scold. Scandalmonger. Talebearer. Busybody. History has given us ...