Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Access online subscription databases

Links to libraries in Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania

Links to Pittsburgh area magazines.

Links to Pittsburgh area newspapers

Resources for the new resident.

Economic and demographic information.

Check these community calendars for things to do!

Annual festivals in the Pittsburgh region

Resources on many of the neighborhoods of the city.

Links to resources in Pittsburgh

If you are looking for something to put on the wall or if you want to see what Pittsburgh looks like today (or looked like yesterday).

Links to reviews and restaurant web sites.

Resources for the visitor (and the Pittsburgher), including information on Walking Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Iron & Steel Heritage Collection is a digital collection of books, journals, photographs, trade catalogs, and other items related to the iron and steel industry in Western Pennsylvania.

Details on requesting research by the Pennsylvania Department

"Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy, and cannot be torn out."

An online exhibit of some 600 historical photographs and images, accompanied by text, of Pittsburgh, its bridges and its neighborhoods.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh resources for learning about Pittsburgh history.

Print resources and external websites

These 42 oral history interviews offer a remarkable cross-section of Western Pennsylvanians.

Famous inventors in Pittsburgh

Listen to the personal stories of everyday Pittsburghers in the largest oral history project ever undertaken.

Issues from 1918-2007 available & searchable online for free, published by the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.