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Pittsburgh: A city of two post-industrial tales

  • Written by Allen Dieterich-Ward, Associate Professor of History, Shippensburg University
imagePittsburgh, between its industrial past and a clean, green tech-driven future.Dllu, CC BY-SA

President Donald Trump’s mention of Pittsburgh in his announcement withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate evoked the city’s past as an industrial powerhouse. It sparked a furious set of tweets from Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto,...

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