Historic Pittsburgh

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Institution Name:

University of Pittsburgh

Collection:

University of Pittsburgh

Grade Level:

Secondary, Post-secondary

Abstract:

Historic Pittsburgh, an extensive digital resource created at the University of Pittsburgh, offers both an entry point and substantive classroom resources for teachers of American History at various grade and university levels.

This Web site enables access to historic material held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Chatham College Archives, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, and Point Park University Archives. The project represents a model of cooperation between libraries, museums and institutions of higher learning in providing centralized access to selections of their respective historic materials.

The books allows teachers to focus on historical currents, social movements and individual historical personalities, both famous and less well-known. Thousands of photographs offer students at all levels opportunities for observation, comparison and inference. The decennial census contains a wealth of information about the occupational, racial, gender, family, and residential structure of a key industrializing region, from pre-Civil War years to the Gilded Age. The chronology captures significant events that took place in Pittsburgh throughout three centuries.

Material Type:

Primary Source, Teaching and Learning Strategies

Media Format:

Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML, Downloadable docs

Conditions of Use:

Custom License
The University of Pittsburgh provides access to the digital materials on the Historic Pittsburgh website for educational, non-commercial, and private research use only. Any other use of these materials, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly reproductions, redistribution, publication, or transmission, is strictly prohibited without written permission. Unless otherwise noted, the majority of the books in our full-text collection and maps included on the Historic Pittsburgh website are in the public domain; please see our separate statement on the Copyright and Use of the Image Collections (photographs). For any item not in the public domain, the University of Pittsburgh received written permission or copyright clearance for the use of that item on this site. Users of the Historic Pittsburgh website do not need to seek permission for downloading images for private or educational use. However, the University of Pittsburgh does retain the rights to the digital images available on this website.