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 2024 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine includes feature articles on:

Mother advocates who shaped the disability rights movement in Pennsylvania
Hard-working women of Pittsburgh’s cigar and stogie industry

As well as columns about:

Shawnee resistance at Sewickley Old Town
East End Debs softball
Pittsburgh Folk Festival Records and Photographs
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s new Welcome & Education Center
400 years of coroners in Pennsylvania
The Feminist Karate Union
Family Bibles as genealogy tools
Herbert Harmon and early radio

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 also receive an e-version. 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