Book published by Indiana University Press offers pictorial history of Inland and U.S. Steel plants, workers 
Indiana University Northwest faculty members and authors Gary Wilk, Ph.D., and Stephen McShane will sign copies of their book, “Steel Giants: Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives,” at the Barnes and Noble on U.S. 30 in Merrillville on Saturday, June 12, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.
“Steel Giants” is filled with photographs, some more than 100 years old, depicting the construction and operation of U.S. Steel’s Gary Works and the Inland Steel plant in East Chicago. McShane contributed the text, which details the mighty effort to transform a swath of Lake Michigan shoreline into the mill district and adjacent communities that would help to build 20th-century America.
The book contains 278 black-and-white and 32 color photographs, along with a foreword by “Making Steel” author Mark Reutter. “Steel Giants” also contains a reproduction of a 1911 sales booklet that Inland Steel used to tout its product.
Copies of “Steel Giants” will be available for purchase at the event. The book is also available at the Barnes and Noble Campus Bookstore at IU Northwest, and online at BarnesandNoble.com and other online retailers.