Publications - Magazine Back Issues
The following is a content list of some of the main articles in the Western Pennsylvania History Magazine:

Winter 2006
  • Soul Soldiers, African Americans in Vietnam - Samuel Black
  • Smoky City Newspaper Series - Patricia Pugh Mitchell
  • Free Men Lose the Vote in Pa., 1838 - Clarke Thomas
Fall 2006
  • First Ladies Exhibition - Kathleen Wendell & Julia Pietsch
  • Mrs. Davis' House in Sewickley - James Borchert, Ph.D.
  • McCarthyism Hits Home - Robert Gorczyca
Summer 2006
  • Legacy of the Land - David Scofield
  • South American Archaeology Sites - James B. Richardson, III
  • Pine Bank Bridge - Louis C. Martin
  • The Great Journey - J.M. Adovasio
  • Meadowcroft as Shelter - Michael B. Collins
  • Photos by Frank France - Bonnie L. Sanford
Spring 2006
  • Great Flood of 1938 - Anne Madarasz
  • River Rats, 1960s Memoir - Emory MacAlister
  • Nine Mile Run - Zachary Falck & Marijke Hecht
  • Mon River, 1950s-80s Near Maxwell - Robert L. Yarup
Fall 2005
  • Polish Beauty Contest, Remembering Western Pennsylvania's 1930 Polish Beauty Contest - Dorothy Gray
  • Maximilian of Wied, His Vivid Descriptions of Pittsburgh in an Almost Forgotten Episode - Dietmar Kuegler
  • Living in Paradise, How Pleasant Hills Refused to Join the Cold War - Richard Lindberg
Spring/Summer 2005 - Special edition

Clash of Empires, The British, French & Indian War, 1754-1763

Winter 2004/2005 - Special Sports Issue, Including:
  • Pittsburgh: Sports City - Rob Ruck
  • For the Fun of the Game, Sandlot and Semi-Pro Football - Eric Poole
  • The Harris Family And its Ice Capades - Mary A. Biehl
  • In His Own Words, 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist - Nicholas P. Ciotola
  • James A. Dorsey, and the Support of Black Sport in Pittsburgh - Samuel W. Black
  • Wheelmen (and now Women too) - Lauren Uhl
Fall 2004
  • September 11: Collecting and Commemorating a National Tragedy – Nicholas P. Ciotola
  • New Special Collections Gallery – Kathleen Wendell
  • Bring Your Family Tree to Life – Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A.
Summer 2004
  • Local Women Entertain Pittsburgh Audiences – Bette McDevitt
  • Founding of Moon Township – Robert Jockers
  • Battle for the Bridges – Gary Link
Spring 2004
  • Carnegie Hero Fund – Mary Brignano
  • Palmatary Lithograph At Pittsburgh’s Duquesne Club – Bruce M. Wolf
  • From New York to Pittsburgh (But Never Really Leaving) – Paola Corso
Winter 2003/2004
  • Rediscovering Lewis and Clark – David F. Halaas and Andrew Masich
  • Pittsburgh, The Steel and (Once) Motor City – Dr. Peter C. Zubritzky
  • The Early Automobile Industry in Southwestern Pa., 1900-1930 – Charles Lanigan
Fall 2003
  • The First World Series [1903] – Dan Bonk and Len Martin
  • Line Drives At The Pittsburgh Pirates [1909 World Series] – Richard “Pete” Peterson
  • Keystone View Company [Stereoview Cards] – Cassandra Vivian
Summer 2003
  • The Swan and The Ostrich (Oakland’s Fifth Avenue Villas) – James Borchert, Ph.D.
  • Willa Cather and The Gerwig House – Peter M. Sullivan
  • A Month of Surgery In Haiti – Edwin Bayley Buchanan, M.D.
Spring 2003
  • The Civil War Letters Of Brigadier General Alexander Hayes – Robert Gorczyca
  • The Famous, Missing Painting (Of Hays At Gettysburg) – Brian Butko
  • The Civil War Letters Of Philip Lantzy – Joseph Gibbs
Winter 2002/2003
  • Folk Art Exhibit Survey – Douglas McCombs
  • John Graves – Lissa Brennan
  • African American Quilts – Samuel Black
Fall 2002
  • Cassie and Woody’s WWII Journal – James McKenzie
  • Postwar Friendship and Merci Trains – Dorothy Scheele
  • Gunpowder Girls – Sonya Jason
Summer 2002
  • Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Dr. James Adovasio and Jake Page
  • “Schues” the Architect and Designing Isaly’s Stores – Doug Clewett
  • Behind The Counter At Isaly’s – David Rotthoff
Spring 2002
  • Infrastructure And City-Building – Joel Tarr
  • Pittsburgh As Human-Built Landscape – Ted Muller
  • How Railroads Shaped Pittsburgh’s Central Business District – Kevin Patrick