Recs if you like The Johnstown Flood...

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

Nonfiction books across varying interests. Excludes memoirs and self help books

Look, we love the yellow bridges as much as the next person, even if navigating them takes blind faith in your GPS. But once you survive the Fort Pitt tunnel merge, you realize the story here stretches past the skyline.

Think of this as a running mixtape: local history and stories from steep hills and old brick streets. A steady mix whether your people go back generations in the coal and steel towns or you just figured out how to pronounce Youghiogheny. Read along.

If you've ever wandered what happens in national parks, the answer is everything from murder, to cryptids, to history, to hauntings, and everything in between. National Park After Dark explores all that our parks offer with story's of heroism, survival, death, beauty, conservationism, history and animal life. Here is a growing list of books mentioned by Danielle and Cassy. Enjoy the view. But watch your back!

Please feel free to let me know if there are others I may have missed!

"People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature." - Russel L. Honoré, retired lieutenant general of the United States Army. This list is inspired by the terrifyingly beautiful intensity of nature at its most extreme. This is the nonfiction edition of this subject. Recommendations always welcome!