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  1. The Rise and Fall of King Coal: American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940 by Mark Aldrich (review)

    Article • Journal of the Early Republic, January 2025, Project Muse

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  2. Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2021, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  3. From mills to malls

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  4. David Koistinen. Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. xii +331 pp. ISBN 978-0-8130-4907-6, $74.95 (cloth); 978-0-8130-5408-7, $29.95 (paper).

    Article • Enterprise & Society, June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  5. Pittsburgh: A city of two post-industrial tales

    Article • June 2017, The Conversation

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  6. Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier by Rebecca J. Kinney (review)

    Article • Michigan Historical Review, March 2017, Project Muse

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  7. Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America

    Article • January 2016, University of Pennsylvania Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  8. This is a book review.

    Article • West Virginia History A Journal of Regional Studies, January 2016, Project Muse

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  9. Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America by Allen Dieterich-Ward

    Article • West Virginia History A Journal of Regional Studies, January 2016, Project Muse

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  10. The Ubiquity of Coal in the Mid-Atlantic

    Article • The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, October 2015, Project Muse

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  11. This is a review essay.

    Article • The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 2015, Historical Society of Pennsylvania

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  12. “Live on the Hills and Work in the City”

    Article • Journal of Urban History, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  13. This is a review essay.

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2012, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  14. This is a special issue of the journal *Pennsylvania History* on environmental history.

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2012, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  15. An Interview with Joel A. Tarr

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2012, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  16. Review of *They Say in Harlan County*

    Article • Comparative Studies in Society and History, October 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  17. This is a review of Daniel Sidorick, *Condensed Capitalism*

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2010, The Pennsylvania State University Press

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  18. From mill towns to “burbs of the burgh”: Suburban strategies in the postindustrial metropolis

    Article • January 2010, Emerald

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  19. Beyond the Metropolis: Metropolitan Growth and Regional Transformation in Postwar America

    Article • Journal of Urban History, November 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  20. Philadelphia Politics in Black and White

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2009, JSTOR

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward

  21. For the Love of Murphy's: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer

    Article • Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, January 2009, JSTOR

    Professor of History and Director of The Graduate School Allen Jay Dieterich-Ward