Western Pennsylvania History Magazine Winter 2025-26

The Winter 2025–26 issue of Western Pennsylvania History magazine includes feature articles on:

• An exhibit overview of My America: An Illustrated Experience, which uses the power of art to reflect on the pillars at the heart of the nation’s founding
• Sarah B. Cochran and her life as a Gilded Age businesswoman in the coal and coke industries
• Pittsburgh’s secret role in the fight for a Jewish state

As well as columns about:

• How the American Revolution caused major changes at the state and local levels
• Erv Sarlin and the golden age of professional boxing in Pittsburgh
• Educator Doris Garrett Brevard’s archival collection
• Steve Flaherty and the road to Ragtime
• The Homewood Cemetery
• The many hands it takes to fold the American flag and uphold a republic
• The hidden history of a Pleasant Hills home with the first integrated bomb shelter in the nation
• Loïs Mailou Jones’ Portrait of Martin R. Delany
• Nurse Practitioner Betty McKisson caring for Clarion County
• The Eichleay Company’s barges, showboats, and pleasure scows