On Sept. 17, 1862, 78 people - 71 young women and 7 men - died when the Allegheny Arsenal in the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh exploded. This was the largest single day civilian death toll of the Civil War, but it was overshadowed because of events that happened in Sharpsburg, Maryland at The Battle of Antietam.
Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
"Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge" Book Discussion - Black History Month
Charles Prince, World War II: In Their Own Words - Pennsylvania's Neighborhood: Somerset