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

An overview of the Pittsburgh’s Hidden History exhibition that showcases rarely or never seen pieces in the History Center’s collection
A history of the small but mighty Western Restoration Center
The adventures of pilot and Buffalo Soldier Charles Wesley Peters

As well as columns about:

Finding fossils on the frontier
The Seton-LaSalle 1984 basketball team
Western Pennsylvania’s Camp Easter Seals
The modest modernism of Vincent J. Schoeneman
Titusville Historical Society
The Beehive Coffeehouse collection
Rev. Benjamin Tucker Tanner
The Jane Blair sampler
Callery Street’s pungent history

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