Steel Valley University

Author : Ellie Wymard
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Steel Towns written by Ellie Wymard and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Steel Towns captures the voices of the steel-driving men who built the ships and tanks for two World Wars as well as the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the United Nations and the Twin Towers ¿ and the voices of the Steel Valley women who fought their own battles against poverty and prejudice in the harsh world of the blast furnace.

Author : Ellie Wymard
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Steel Towns written by Ellie Wymard and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Steel Towns captures the voices of the steel-driving men who built the ships and tanks for two World Wars as well as the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the United Nations and the Twin Towers ¿ and the voices of the Steel Valley women who fought their own battles against poverty and prejudice in the harsh world of the blast furnace.

Author : Allen J. Dieterich-Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780542920295
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mines, Mills and Malls written by Allen J. Dieterich-Ward and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William D. Jenkins
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386944
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel Valley Klan written by William D. Jenkins and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jenkins argues that the Klan drew from all social strata in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1920s, contrary to previous theories that predominately lower middle-class WASPs joined the Klan because of economic competition with immigrants. Threatened by immigrant movement into their neighborhoods, these members supposedly represented a fringe element with few accomplishments and little hope of advancement. Jenkins suggests instead that members admired the Klan commitment to a conservative protestant moral code. Besieged, they believed, by an influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants who did not accept blue laws and prohibition, members of the piestistic churches flocked to Klan meetings as an indication of their support for reform. This groundswell peaked in 1923 when the Klan gained political control of major cities in the South and Midwest. Newly enfranchised women who supported a politics of moralism played a major role in assisting Klan growth and making Ohio one of the more successful Klan realms in the North. The decline of the Klan was almost as rapid. Revelations regarding sexual escapades of leaders and suspicions regarding irregularities in Klan financing led members to question the Klan commitment to moral reform. Ethnic opposition also contributed to Klan decline. Irish citizens stole and published the Klan membership list, while Italians in Niles, Ohio, violently crushed efforts of the Klan to parade in that city. Jenkins concludes that the Steel Valley Klan represented a posturing between cultures mixed together too rapidly by the process of industrialization.

Author : Donna M. DeBlasio
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439634998
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youngstown State University written by Donna M. DeBlasio and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Youngstown State University prepares to celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2008, this book is a reflection on its history and heritage. Starting as a YMCA law school in 1908, the institution that became Youngstown State University is now a major and vital force in the community and the region. The images collected here illustrate the transformation of the institution from a storefront operation in the downtown area, to classroom space in former mansions, to a full-blown 21st-century campus. As the community itself became more diverse, the institution that it spawned followed suit as did its student body, faculty, staff, and programs.

Author : Donna M. DeBlasio
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630402
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youngstown Postcards From the Steel City written by Donna M. DeBlasio and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youngstown, Ohio was a rapidly growing industrial city in the early 20th century. In 1900, the city had a population of about 45,000; ten years later, it nearly doubled to 80,000, and by 1920 had reached 120,000. This phenomenal growth was reflected in a number of structures that dotted the city's skyline, including the Mahoning Bank Building, the Masonic Temple, and the plants of three major steel companies along the banks of the Mahoning River. Youngstown also had new places for its citizens to play during this period-Idora Park, Mill Creek Park, and Wick Park. And this was all preserved for the future through another early-20th century phenomenon-the postcard. Over 190 vintage postcards illustrate this book, which will bring the reader back to the era when Youngstown was rapidly becoming the third largest steel producer in the nation.

Author : Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster & Gordon F. Morgan, with the Mahoning Valley Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467118966
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Jewish Youngstown and the Steel Valley, A written by Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster & Gordon F. Morgan, with the Mahoning Valley Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in the Mahoning Valley during 1837, a tiny settlement of secular German immigrants grew into one of the most influential centers of Jewish life in the Midwest. Home to nationally renowned rabbis and Zionist firebrands alike, the community produced an astonishing array of leaders in an impressive range of fields throughout the twentieth century. This notable legacy ranges from the entertainment juggernaut of Warner Brothers to the Arby's fast-food empire and the prominent Youngstown Sheet & Tube, among many others. Authors Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster and Gordon F. Morgan trace the unique history of one of Ohio's oldest Jewish communities from its humble beginnings into the challenging climate of the new millennium.

Author : Clayton J. Ruminski
Publisher : Trillium
ISBN 13 : 9780814213216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iron Valley written by Clayton J. Ruminski and published by Trillium. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development and struggle, 1802-1840 -- Brier Hill coal and "merchantable" pig iron, 1840-1856 -- Railroads, coal, iron, and war, 1856-1865 -- Expansion and depression, 1865-1879 -- The pressure of steel, 1879-1894 -- Steel, consolidation, and the fall of iron, 1894-1913

Author : Thomas Welsh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625856415
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Jewish Youngstown and the Steel Valley written by Thomas Welsh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in the Mahoning Valley during 1837, a tiny settlement of secular German immigrants grew into one of the most influential centers of Jewish life in the Midwest. Home to nationally renowned rabbis and Zionist firebrands alike, the community produced an astonishing array of leaders in an impressive range of fields throughout the twentieth century. This notable legacy ranges from the entertainment juggernaut of Warner Brothers to the Arby's fast-food empire and the prominent Youngstown Sheet & Tube, among many others. Authors Thomas Welsh, Joshua Foster and Gordon F. Morgan trace the unique history of one of Ohio's oldest Jewish communities from its humble beginnings into the challenging climate of the new millennium.

Author : William J. Miller Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149306844X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steel City written by William J. Miller Jr. and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel City is the story of the 1890s golden age of Pittsburgh when its technological innovations and wealth creation made it the Silicon Valley of its day. Pittsburgh was first in steel, food processing, and electricity, and the leaders of those industries—Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, and Westinghouse—are names we still know today. Amid this fevered atmosphere Jamie Dalton, a recent Yale graduate and son of a corporate lawyer, must decide whether to accede to his father’s wishes and pursue a career in law or the steel business, or follow his own instincts and become a newspaperman. The greatest natural disaster of the 19th century, the Johnstown Flood, confirms his choice to be a journalist, and Jamie goes on to cover Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious woman under the sway of an Eastern European anarchist. Jamie struggles with balancing the access he has to Pittsburgh’s business elite while maintaining the objectivity to tell the hard truths about those same people. Ultimately, he must thwart a terrorist plot that could disrupt the massive corporate merger that would restructure the nation’s largest industry: steel.