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

The 797th Military Police Battalion defending the “Arsenal of Democracy”
Pittsburgh band the Shut-Ins and the early punk rock music scene
The secret past of Uniontown Civil War General George Washington Bowie

As well as columns about:

Sled hockey player Kelsey DiClaudio
The Kwolek family’s Polish American life in New Castle
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and architecture’s modern movement
Bridgeville Public Library
Micro Training Specialists Company
Relocating Virgil Cantini’s 1964 mosaic mural
The Marine Corps League of Titusville
The Armstrong Cork Company
200th anniversary of Lafayette’s visit to Western Pennsylvania in 1825

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