Unit 3: Commonwealth v. Carnegie

Unit 3 take-home test (PDF)

Below you will find the case materials for the mock trial Commonwealth v. Carnegie that were distributed in class.

I have also listed and linked a wealth of supplemental research materials. If you need something that’s not on the list, let me know.

Download case materials (PDF, 5.9 mb)

Worksheet for video
(Video keeps getting shut down.  Bring a flash drive if you can’t access through Schoology.)

Books available in Room 112:

• Fort Frick by Myron R. Stowell, 1893
• Homestead by Arthur Burgoyne, 1893
• Homestead: The Households of a Mill Town by Margaret Byington, 1910
• Lockout: The Story of the Homestead Strike of 1892: A Study of Violence, Unionism, and the Carnegie Steel Empire by Leon Wolff, 1965
• Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell, 1976
• And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry, John Hoerr, 1988.
• The River Ran Red edited by David DeMarest, 1992
• Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Town by William Serrin, 1992
• Making Iron and Steel: The Historic Process 1700-1900, Jack Chard, 1995
• Henry Clay Frick: The Gospel of Greed, Samuel Schreiner, 1995
• A Town Without Steel: Envisioning Homestead, Charlee Brodsky and Judith Modell, 1998
• Henry Clay Frick, Martha Frick Symington Sanger, 1998
• Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America, Les Standiford, 2006
• Andrew Carnegie, David Nasaw, 2007
• The Point of Pittsburgh: Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio, Charles McCollester, 2008
• From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition, Zach Brodt, 2023

Articles, papers, and supporting documents:

• Strike Out: A Pirates Pitcher at the Battle of Homestead by Zach Brodt (2015)
• “Working Class Muscle: Homestead and Bodily Disorder in the Gilded Age” by Edward Slavishak (2004)
• “Steelworkers Rethink the Homestead Strike of 1892” by Steven Cohen (1981)
• “The ‘Deserted Parthenon’: Class, Culture and the Carnegie Library of Homestead, 1898-1937” by Curtis Miner (1990)
• “The Homestead Strike” by F.W. Taussig (1893)
• “The Homestead Strike and Lockout, 1892” by Robert Gibb (1998)
• “Perceiving Racism: Homestead from Depression to Deindustrialization” by John Hinshaw and Judith Modell (1996)
• “Henry Clay Frick: Builder and Individualist”, North American Review (1920)
• “Andrew Carnegie and the Discourse of Cultural Hegemony” by Alun Munslow (1988)

Useful links:

• Making Steel at explorepahistory.com
• Crisis Projects: The Homestead Strike

If you find links to useful research that are not mentioned above, inform me and I will add them.