Search Academic Lexis-Nexis in the "news" category and select the Pittsburgh Tribune Review or Pittsburgh Post Gazette to obtain local information.

Search under Westmoreland County Pennsylvania to obtain articles on various topics from "Westmoreland History" and other journal titles.

Search this database for local revolutionary war heroes such as Arthur St. Clair (1737-1818). A local park in downtown Greensburg is named in his honor as well as the annual St. Clair Lecture series held each fall at the Pitt-Greensburg campus.

Historic Pittsburgh is a digital collection that provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area on the Internet. It is a joint project of the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Most of the materials in Historic Pittsburgh's Full-Text Collection were published or produced before the early 1920s and are out of print or not readily accessible.

This scholarly database is not focused on local history, but does index titles such as the "Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography."