Pittsburgh, History to 1800/Bibliography

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Primary sources

  • Iscrupe, William L. and Shirley G. Iscripe. Early History of Western Pennsylvania of the West and the Western Expeditions and Campaigns (To Ohio, 1754-1833) (1988)
  • Lubove, Roy, ed. Pittsburgh 1976. 294 pp. short excerpts
  • Digital Library, 500 published works from the 19th and early 20th centuries that document Pittsburgh history. The scope of the collection includes poetry, fiction, genealogy and biography. Contains both primary and secondary sources.

Secondary sources

  • Baldwin, Leland D. Pittsburgh: The Story of a City University of Pittsburgh Press, 1937 online edition, popular history by leading scholar
  • Baldwin, Leland D. Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. 1939. online edition
  • Bragdon, Kathleen Joan. The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast (2001)
  • Dunaway, Wayland F.The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania (1997)
  • Walter Scott Dunn. The New Imperial Economy: The British Army and the American Frontier, 1764-1768 2001 - 216 pages
  • Harper, R. Eugene. The Transformation of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1800. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1991. 273 pp.
  • Hogeland, William. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty (2006)
  • Lorant, Stefan. Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City, (1964), well written, heavily illustrated popular history
  • Parkman, Francis. History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac, and the War of the North American Tribes Against the English Colonies (1895), online edition
  • Peckham, Howard H. Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (1947)
  • Rishel, Joseph F. Founding Families of Pittsburgh: The Evolution of a Regional Elite, 1760-1910. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. 241 pp.
  • Sewickley Valley Historical Society. Sewickley (2006) 128pp
  • Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1988 online edition
  • Smith, Arthur G. Pittsburgh: Then and Now. U. of Pittsburgh Press, 1990. 336 pp.
  • Tanner, Helen Hornbeck. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1987)
  • Wade, Richard C. The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830. (1959)
  • White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (1991)