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 2026 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine includes feature articles on:

How yinzers would have experienced the Ice Age in Western Pennsylvania
Streamline markets revolutionize grocery stores into supermarkets
The Sites: Public sculpture contest finalists from the Bicentennial in 1976

As well as columns about:

A History Center expansion project to bring history for all
An 18th-century musket and the struggle to arm Pennsylvania’s soldiers during the Revolutionary War
Ballet dancers as athletes and artists
The J. Alex Zehner Photographs depicting life amid the demolition of the Lower Hill District
Marking the 200th birthday of songwriter Stephen Foster
Historic Fort Steuben
Ways Pittsburghers have enjoyed or fought for the revolutionary promise of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Dolls and accessories made by the Robin Woods Inc. doll factory
John Brewer, a prolific historian of the African American experience
Gunsmith Jacob Sackett and the Pennsylvania long rifle
East Ohio Street and Route 28’s public art showing more than 200 years of the neighborhood’s 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