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 Winter 2025–26 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine includes feature articles on:

• An exhibit overview of My America: An Illustrated Experience, which uses the power of art to reflect on the pillars at the heart of the nation’s founding

Sarah B. Cochran and her life as a Gilded Age businesswoman in the coal and coke industries
Pittsburgh’s secret role in the fight for a Jewish state

As well as columns about:

How the American Revolution caused major changes at the state and local levels
Erv Sarlin and the golden age of professional boxing in Pittsburgh
Educator Doris Garrett Brevard’s archival collection
Steve Flaherty and the road to Ragtime
The Homewood Cemetery
The many hands it takes to fold the American flag and uphold a republic
The hidden history of a Pleasant Hills home with the first integrated bomb shelter in the nation
Loïs Mailou Jones’ Portrait of Martin R. Delany
Nurse Practitioner Betty McKisson caring for Clarion County
The Eichleay Company’s barges, showboats, and pleasure scows

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