Western Pennsylvania History Magazine Spring 2022

The Spring 2022 issue of Western Pennsylvania History includes feature articles on:

• Immigrant folk art painter John Kane and the Pittsburgh he depicted in the early 20th century
• Pittsburgh death penalty cases and the impact of race, class, and gender disparities on the outcomes
• The rapid rise and fall of Western PA’s first iron furnace, the Alliance Iron Works

As well as columns about:

• The James Wilson chair shop collection at Meadowcroft
• Beaver County’s big leaguer Pete Suder
• Chevon Hendzel and local disability history
• Architect Ralph Griswold’s contributions to Riverview and Highland Parks
• Ohio County Public Library and its participation in the Civic Empathy through History project
• The Midwife Center, the nation’s largest freestanding birth center
• Ambridge high school football coach Moe Rubenstein’s scrapbooks
• Emilia Rosso’s souvenir dolls in the Italian American collection
• The Fenian Brotherhood and their brief attempted invasion of Canada