Indiana University Northwest faculty members and authors Gary Wilk, Ph.D., and Stephen McShane will sign copies of their new book, “Steel Giants: Historic Images from the Calumet Regional Archives,” at an event to be held in the Savannah Center on Thursday, Dec. 17, starting at 4 p.m.

The program will begin with a PowerPoint presentation about the history of Inland Steel and U.S. Steel Gary Works, and the Indiana Harbor and Gary communities that were built to support them. The book signing will begin at approximately 4:30 p.m. Copies of “Steel Giants” will be available for purchase at the Barnes and Noble Campus Bookstore. The event will conclude at 6:30 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.