Not surprising given the town's riverine geography was its strong shipbuilding industry ... Carnegie would build an empire of steel, transforming Pittsburgh into the biggest industrial powerhouse ...

America’s steel city was left for dead after the industry collapsed in the 1980s. Unemployment soared, the population plummeted and corporations fled. But gradually, Pittsburgh weathered the ...

I’ve heard more times than I can count that the United Steelworkers union was responsible for the collapse of the steel industry in Pittsburgh. Whatever challenges heavy manufacturing was ...

“This is the period where Pittsburgh transitions from the Steel City to the City of Champions,” said Anne Madarasz, chief historian at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Title town emerges ...

demise of Pittsburgh’s once-dominant steel industry. The move also communicates to U.S. allies around the world that America would rather enter decrepitude alone than accept mutually beneficial ...

PROPOSED PURCHASE OF THE PITTSBURGH ... wants U.S. Steel to stay American-owned, saying it is one of the "great names" in the country."U.S. Steel is one of the great names in the history of ...