Western Pennsylvania History Magazine

Western Pennsylvania History has presented scholarship for a broad audience since 1918 as the region’s oldest continuously-published magazine. History Center members receive a free subscription to this award-winning quarterly publication.

Current Issue

The Fall 2025 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine includes feature articles on:

The University of Pittsburgh’s Nationality Rooms turn 100 years old
Broadway star Lenora Nemetz and her rise to fame and return to Pittsburgh
The Meinert Farm in O’Hara Township and the challenges of suburbanization

As well as columns about:

The 70th anniversary of the discovery of Meadowcroft Rockshelter’s first artifacts
Pirates outfielder Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Photographs collection
The return of the International Poetry Forum
Oakmont Carnegie Library
Papercraft Corporation Photographs collection
Italian Americans in the beauty industry
Julien Bryan, WWII witness in Warsaw
The indoor golf craze that swept through Pittsburgh in the last century

Purchase the Magazine

Current issues of Western Pennsylvania History magazine are available for $7.95 in the Museum Shop and are mailed to all History Center members, who may choose between the print version and an e-version. For a sample of the e-mag that members can choose to receive, click here. A selection of back issues are available for $4.95 per magazine.

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Back Issues

Thanks to a unique partnership with Penn State University, every issue of Western Pennsylvania History from 1918 through 2018 is now available online as fully searchable PDFs.

Read back issues online