Western Pennsylvania History Magazine Summer 2026

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