Local History Panel

Local History Panel: Ed Simon & Zachary Brodt

Moderated by Virginia Montanez | Building: Long Hall | Room: 204 | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

After the presentation, the author will be signing books in a tent outside next to the Information Tent.

Their books will be available at the bookstore in the atrium of Long Hall

*Even though the session is sold out online, walk-in attendees may still be welcomed to the session if pre-registrants do not attend.

Biographies

Zachary Brodt is the University Archivist at the University of Pittsburgh Library System where he also oversees the archives’ labor history collections. He is the author of From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition and has previously published articles about the 1892 Homestead Steel Strike and Pitt’s hiring of Jonas Salk, among other topics.

Ed Simon is the editor of Belt Magazine and the author of over a dozen books, including "The Soul of Pittsburgh.”