The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB) is a quarterly scholarly journal and one of the country’s most prestigious state historical publications. Published since 1877 by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, it is an important resource for those interested in a scholarly approach to state and local history, industry, genealogy, culture, and related subjects. For more information about the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, click on HSP in the navigation bar above.

Readers have open access at Penn State’s site to a century of back issues of the journal, beginning with Vol. 31 (1907) and continuing through Vol. 127 (2003). One new volume will be added to the digital archive each year forward.

• To search for authors, titles or words in the full text of issues from 1907-2003, Search the Archive on the navigation bar above.
• To browse an issue, choose from the ranges here:

Volumes 31-33 (1907-1909)
Volumes 34-43 (1910-1919)
Volumes 44-53 (1920-1929)
Volumes 54-63 (1930-1939)
Volumes 64-73 (1940-1949)
Volumes 74-83 (1950-1959)
Volumes 84-93 (1960-1969)
Volumes 94-103 (1970-1979)
Volumes 104-113 (1980-1989)
Volumes 114-123 (1990-1999)
Volumes 124-128 (2001-2004)


Other content years of the journal:

• If you have a Penn State Access account, the most recent issues in full text are available at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Website.
• For access to Volumes 1-30 (1877-1906) in electronic format:
• If you have a Penn State Access account, go to the full text of the earlier journal issues through the ProQuest American Periodicals Series database (you will see a different interface and search engine): Proquest Database
• For everyone else, go to access suggestions.
• A PMHB journal subscription is a benefit of membership in the Society and is also available to individual and institutional subscribers. Find out more about membership in The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

This site is the official digital archive of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and was created in cooperation with HSP by the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, a joint effort of The Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Penn State Press. For more information about the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, click on ODSP in the navigation bar above.