History of Pittsburgh/reinvention 1973%e2%80%93present

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or pittsburgh:

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.”
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)