The first decade of the new century proved to be a deadly one for many children and young people in the United States. Despite increased policing on the streets, higher rates of incarceration, harsher sentencing, stricter control of illegal drugs, and attempts to reduce access t…
Based on the findings of a unique longitudinal study, this volume provides experts with unprecedented analysis of prospectively collected data following the road from childhood to early adulthood of 1,517 boys and young men from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The first decade of the new century proved to be a deadly one for many children and young people in the United States. Despite increased policing on the streets, higher rates of incarceration, harsher sentencing, stricter control of illegal drugs, and attempts to reduce access t…
Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.
This book explores the history of Pittsburghese, the local dialect of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area as it is imagined and used by Pittsburghers. Sociolinguist Barbara Johnstone asks what happened during the second half of the 20th century to reshape a largely unnoticed way o…
The doomed Whiskey Rebellion, the Great Fire that destroyed a third of the city in 1845 and Lincoln's speech urging residents to shun talk of secession - all have made the pages of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and its predecessors. Since 1786, the paper has covered local events, …
