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Winter 1997
• Cover "Six O'Clock" by Charles Burchfield
• Buffalo's Own Prince Melodeon Company
• Archaeology on Buffalo's Waterfront
• An Irishwoman's Story
• Main Street 1921

Spring 1998
• Cover lithograph "Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway" poster
• C.L. Pond - Pioneer Stereo Photographer
• Hamilton House in Ripley, New York
• Harry Brunn and the Electric Car
• Western New Yorkers on the Titanic

Fall 1998 - (available only on CD)
• Buffalo's Forgotten Mansion Builders (Dick Hirsch)
• A Fisherman's View of the Buffalo Waterfront & Niagara River (Joseph Rennie)
• The Old Photo Album - photos from the 1900s (Paul Redding)
• Memoirs of a Prisoner of War (Erhard Dallmann with Edward Patton)
• The Fort Niagara Officer's Club Murals (Robert Bienvenue)
• Midcentury History in the Golden Gloves (Jack Donnelly with Pat Holcombe)
• Last Look - 159 Swan Street (John H. Conlin)

Spring 1999
• Cover watercolor detail of the Martin House
• Frank Lloyd Wright - Unexecuted Designs for WNY
• When Pierce Arrow Went to War
• Schooner Michigan- A Voyage through the Grand Rapids of Niagara Falls
• A Proto-historic Iroquoian Village in Elma, NY
• Photos from the WNY HERITAGE Collection

Winter 1999
• Cover: "Interior with Portraits" by Thomas Le Clear
• The Sidway Double Portrait, 1865
• Downtown Movie Theatres
• The Gatling Land Boom - Hamburg, New York
• Buffalo Bills '46 - `49
• The Photography of Libby Kahle

Fall 2001- available only on CD
• Historian's Notebook: Looking Backward 1901-2001 (John H. Conlin)
• Leon Czolgosz: A Psychiatric Assessment ( Barbara Soper)
Looking Backward and the Assassin (Jerome Szaras)
• Mark Twain and Buffalo in 1901 (Tom Reigstad)
• Selling the Larkin Idea (Howard Stanger)
• The Pan-American Exposition in 3-D
• Cantilevered Architecture on the Commercial Slip (John H.Conlin)
• The Transportation Stamps of the Pan-American Exposition (Robert M. Gurn)
• History of Baseball in Buffalo (W. Richard Ohler)

Winter 2002- available only on CD
• The Buffalo Architectural Letgaqcy of J. L. Silsbee (Christopher Payne)
• James B. Parker Revisited (Daryl Rasuli)
• The Commercial Slip, Part II - Wheeler's Hotel: A Microcosm of Buffalo's Famous Canal District (John H. Conlin)
• All My Life I Have Loved Trains (Robert Schuh)
• The Old Photo Album: Collapse of the Honeymoon Bridge, 1938 (Paul Redding & Denise O'Meara)
• Honeymoon Bridge Is Falling Down, Falling Down (Jim Wells)
• A Waterfront University? (Linda Levine)

Spring 2002
• The Continuing Legacy of Margaret Wendt
• The Alden Black Water Baths
• The Famous Central Wharf of the Buffalo Waterfront
• E G. Spaulding, Buffalo's Banker (Chase Viele)
• The Old Photo Album: Seals Ebony Studio (Dr.Barbara Nevergold)
• Lackawanna Local Hero: Life & Times of Colonel Jean Baptiste Weber (Denise O'Meara)

Summer 2002
• Madame Cadillac's Remarkable Journey
• The Old Photo Album-Elmwood Avenue in the good old days
• Life and Times of William G. Fargo
• The Eagle Park Disaster
• Aviation History on the Niagara Frontier
• Watercolor historian opens Buffalo's "Windows to the Past"

Fall 2002 - available on on CD
• Mark Twain: Bachelor Editor in Buffalo (Tom Reigstad)
• The Most Humane of Humans: Mark Twain & John Harrison Mills (William Loos)
• William G. Fargo, The Tycoon From Buffalo, Part II (Jacek A. Wysocki)
• Frank Lloyd Wright's "Buffalo Venture" Revisited (Jack Quinan)
• Frontier Telephone (Norman C. Bauman)

Winter 2003
• Lest We Forget: William J. Donovan
• Niagara's Visual Music in the Paintings of Claire Shuttleworth
• Father Hennepin at Niagara Falls
• Old Photo Album
• The Early Log Architecture
• The Early Days of Skiing in Western New York: Wooden Skis, Leather Boots and Studebaker Rope Tows

Spring 2003 - Available only on CD
• Donovan: More to Remember (Salavtore R. Martoche)
• Old Photo Album: The Last Delaware Park Superintendent
• Bidwell & Banta: Pioneer Great Lakes Shipbuilders (Joseph L. Rennie, Jr.)
• The Buffalo Harbor Ferries (John Montague)
• "Boston Gothic" on Delaware Avenue: The Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunication (Francis R. Kowsky)
• A Place for Lost Time: A Look Back at Buffalo's Polish East Side (Herome Szaras)
Who is Edgar Tafel? (John H.Conlin)

Summer/ Fall 2003
• Western New York's Supreme Court Justice (Robert Jackson)
• The Oldest Continuous Book Club in America (Chautauqua)
• An Ornament to the Pavement: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo Gas Station
• Harold Arlen: Hiding in Plain Sight
• My Silent Partner, Harold Arlen (by Mark Russell)
• Eyes of the Golf World on Buffalo
• Historian's Notebook: Grover Cleveland Park
• Old Photo Album: Western New York's Pleasure Parks

Winter 2004 - available only on CD
• Richard Waite: A Forgotten Master (Martin Wachadlo & Christopher Brown)
• Eugene M. Dyczkowski - Lusty Realist of Depresseion-Era Buffalo (David F. Martin)
• Old Photo Album: Buffalo Views of Natalie Green Tessier
• The Rev. J. Edward Nash House: A Cornerstone of History and Culture (Felix L. Armfield, Ph.D)
• Your Property Deed and the Holland Land Company (John W. Percy)
• The Aries Press (Richard Kegler)
Last Look: Henry Chandler House, 89 Niagara Street

Spring 2004
The George Eastman House Museum (by Anthony Bannon, Director)
• The Emperor of Elixir: Buffalo's Most Famous Doctor (by Dick Hirsch)
• Buffalo's Parkside Neighborhood (by Meredith Lavelle)
• The Life and Times of Sheldon Thompson (by Lee Poole)
• Shea's: Parapet Lost - Parapet Regained (by Jeffrey Bagel)
• The Buffalo Bicycle Clubhouse: A Hidden Landmark (by Carl F. Burgwardt)

Summer 2004
• Who Was the Real Maria Love? (by Karen Berner Little)
• The Shelby Earthworks: An Ancient Indian Fort (by Gary S. Lane)
• The House of Twain: 472 Delaware (by Tom Reigstad)
• Buffalo's Edgar Allen Poe Mystery (by Richard J Burke and William H. Loos)
• The Goodrich-Landow Log Cabin: A Document of Pioneer History (by John H. Conlin)
• Brothers in Arms (by William E. Paterson)

Fall 2004
• Anna Katherine Green: Mother of the Detective Novel (by Joan Warthling)
• Harvesting the Land, Reaching the Sky (by Garrett Olmsted)
• Chautauqa's Hidden Architect (by Edward Evans)
• The Illustrated Chapin (by Judity Chapin Buzby)
• The Great Pike Fire of 1909 (by Norman Bauman)
• The Historian's Notebook: The Seneca Indian Park (by John H. Conlin)

Winter 2005
• Akron's Architectural Crown (by Jim Bisco)
•' The Last Line' : Frank Lloyd Wright's Blue Sky Mausoleum (by Patrick J. Mahoney)
• Buffalo's Lone Ranger (by Jim Bisco)
• The Amazing Ellicott Clock (by John Conlin)
• Reclaiming the North Pole (by Russell W. Gibbons)
• Buffalo's Jewish Enterprise (by Joan Vogel Fischman)

Spring 2005
• The Oz of East Aurora (by Richard Ohler)
• Newly Revealed Images of Earliest Buffalo (by Christopher N. Brown and David F. Granville)
• The Torture Tree (by Margaret Wooster)
• The Magic of Vaudeville (by Jim Bisco)
• Sacred Spaces Specialist (by Carol Bronnenkant)
• Buffalo's Boy Major (by Michael J. Gent)
• The Johnson Cottage and Its Painter (by John H. Conlin)
• Bicentennial Port (by Bill McKibben)
• The Old Picture Album: Regional Richardsonian Buildings (by Bill Koch & John H. Conlin)

Summer 2005
• Belle of Buffalo (by Anita Mitchell)
• Buffalo's Greatest Southpaw (by Jim Bisco)
• Gateway to Empire (by Robert L. Emerson)
• Ichabod's Journey (by Julie Foster Van Camp)
• Buffalo's Historic West Village (by Marilyn Rodgers and John H. Conlin)
• From Horse Cars to Metro Rail (by Joseph H. Radder)
• Historian's Notebook: house at 172 E. Eagle St., Sara Hinson home (by John H. Conlin)
• The Old Photo Album: Humboldt Parkway before its Kensington Transformation (by John H. Conlin)
• Last Look: Sprague Log Cabin, LeRoy (by John H. Conlin)

Fall 2005
• Jane Welch, Renaissance Woman (Tom Reigstad)
• Mysterious Noises! (Ray Edinger)
• Steelworker Sculptor (Jim Bisco)
• The Seneca Mission Press (Jack T. Ericson)
• Mandolin Mania (Jean Dickson)
• The J.N.Adam Hospital, Perrysburg (Larry Beahan)
• Doors Open Niagara (John H. Conlin)
• The Old Photo Album: Scenes from the 125-year History of the Buffalo Fire Department (Margaret Coghlan)
• Last Look: J.N. Adam Center, Perrysburg

Winter 2006 - available only on CD
• The Life and Times of the Superior (Raymond A. Massey)
• Genial Genius, William Greatbatch (Catherine L. Lange with John H. Conlin)
• James J. Vullo: Buffalo Modernist (Albert L. Michaels)
• Big Time at Little Harlem (Jim Bisco)
• "The Handsomest Country Club Home" (C. Douglas Kohler)
• The Old Photo Album: Scenes of Buffalo Winters early 20th century (Janet M. Wetter)
• Last Look: underground caves & history of the German American Brewer (Steve Powell)

Spring 2006
Portrait of an Aviation Pioneer (Stuart Leuthner)
Lockport: Primacy of Place (John H. Conlin)
Mabel Dodge's Buffalo (John H. Conlin)
Burlesque in Buffalo (Jim Bisco)
Buffalo's Blueblood Socialist (John H. Conlin)
Driving Miss Daisy Again (Norman C. Bauman, Jr.)
Last Look: Springville's Leland House (Susan Eck)

Summer 2006
• Roger Tory Peterson: The Man and His Legacy (Kathleen Crocker)
• The Life of Mary Jemison (Steven White and John H. Conlin)
• A Salesman's Walk Downtown (Peter J. Keenan)
• Oh Canadiana (John H. Conlin)
• M & T Bank Marks Its Sesquicentennial (Chet Bridger)
• A Braided Cord (Kevin Siepel)
• Last Look? Why can't the Queen Anne-style house at 194 E. Utica St. be saved? (John H. Conlin)

Fall 2006
• Jack Randall: Preservation in Principle (Jason Aronoff)
• Frank Lloyd Wright's Heath House (Joseph A. Blatz)
• The University on the Banks of the Niagara: 150 Years of History (Linus Ormsby)
• The South Side's Best Drug Store (Diane Mulvey Shehata)
• The Old Photo Album: The Covered Bridges of Wyoming County (Jean Rudolph)
• Historian's Notebook: Who Was Farmer's Brother? (John H. Conlin)
• Last Look? The Stolen Ely S. Parker medals have been recovered but recent events beg the question: What will be done to stop future transgressions? (Clarence C. Picard)

Winter 2007
• Foggy Feast at the Old Rockpile (Donald Golba)
• Joseph Bennett of Evans: Western New York Pioneer (Kevin H. Siepel)
• Buffalo Church-Organ Builders (David Snyder)
• La Salle's Shipbuilder of Le Griffon (John H. Conlin)
• At the Point of the Bayonet! The British Capture of Fort Niagara (C. Douglas Kohler & Douglas DeCroix)
• Winter Scenes (Carl Illig paintings)
• The Heath House Follow-up (John H. Conlin)
• Last Look? The Saturn Club's maple tree and the October ambush (Clarence C. Picard)

Spring 2007
• The Liberty Pole: An Album of Historic Images (Carl Burgwardt, Susan Eck, John H. Conlin)
• F.W. Caulkins: Architect (John H. Conlin)
• Louis Le Couteulx: Gentleman (Judith Lopez del Moral)
• When Mexico Came to Buffalo: Miguel Lerdo de Tejada and his Orquesta Tipica (Jean Dickson)
• Buffalo's Forgotten World War I Ace (Clarence Picard)
• Testament to Modernism: The Halfpenny House (John H. Conlin)
• History at Our Feet (John Maxfield Hague with Charles LaChiusa, Craig Carlyle Clarke and Paul M. Rooney)
• Last Look: The Wollenburg Elevator (Henry Baxter, Lorraine Pierro, and John H. Conlin)

Summer 2007
• Buffalo's Forgotten Tycoon: Fingy Conners (Thomas Grover)
• Eye of the Master (Robert L. O'Brian)
• Buffalo in 1837: A First Hand Account (commentary by Andrew R. Graham)
• Historian's Notebook: Thomas LaClear's Buffalo Newsboys (John H. Conlin)
• A Distant Roar (Keith S. Herbst)
• A Father's Legacy (Ellen Ryan Grucza)
• The Old Photo Album: Riverlawn Estate, Grand Island
• Last Look: Rape of the Knox (John H. Conlin)

Fall 2007
• Graycliff: The Natural House (John H. Conlin)
• Intimate Spirits: Remembering the Art and Lives of Annie Crawford & Emma Kaan (Michael James and David Martin)
• Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (Martin S. Nowak)
• C.D. Arnold: A Famous Photographer No One Knew (Thomas Yanul)
• Historian's Notebook: Thomas Cole in Western New York (John H. Conlin)
• A Few Presidential Appearances (Graham Millar)
• The Old Photo Album: Police Photographer Al Hauser (Al Houser)
• Last Look: Some Church Closings (William Koch)

Winter 2008
• Wilson Bentley: Godfather of Snow (Anne Conable)
• Snatched From Time: The Trial and Execution of David D. How for the Murder of Othello Church (David Eric Cummins)
• Cheese History in Western New York (Tony Cutter)
• The Great Auto Race: Buffalo and the New York to Paris 1908 Automobile Race (Alan V. Manchester)
• The Van Horns (Helene R. Lee)
• Behind Our Cover: Thelma Winter's Art (John H. Conlin)
• The Old Photo Album: 1925 Buffalo Courier rotogravure pictorial section
• Last Look: Wintergarden (John H. Conlin)

Spring 2008
• Sergeant Philip J. Fink's Journey to Freedom (Jerri Donohue)
• Ingham University: A Light That Failed or a Vision for the Future? (Lynne Belluscio)
• Old Photo Album: A Forgotten Atlantis (John H. Conlin)
• David Pratt: A Life in Art (Michael B. Pratt)
• The Saratoga of Chautauqua Lake (Helen B. Ebersole)
• Montezuma's Revenge (Douglas Farley)
• Last Look: McBride's (Clarence C. Picard)

Summer 2008
• Adventurer and Artist Phineas Staunton (Annette B. Peck)
• Saving the Richardson Complex (Maria Scrivani)
• Great-Grandma Goes to College (Dr. David Kelly)
• Uncrowned Community Builders (Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D. & Peggy Brooks-Bertram, DrPH, Ph.D)
• Cradle Beach Camp: A Western New York Legacy (Laura Cunningham Wright)
• Historian's Notebook: Tommy Jenny (John H. Conlin)
• Old Photo Album: Aerial Photos of the Niagara Frontier by Ronne & Milton, 1924
• An Uncanny Niagara Connection: Joncaire & d'Youville (John H. Conlin)
• Last Look: Memorial. Auditorium (Clarence C. Picard)

Fall 2008
• Pop Warner: Father of Modern Football (Alan V. Manchester)
• On and Off the Point (R.O. Titus)
• Herman Grieb: Naturalist & Renowned Taxidermist (John H. Conlin)
• A Good Journey: 150 Years of St. Bonaventure University (Clarence C. Picard)
• Engineering for Speed (Keith S. Herbst)
• Old Photo Album: Ernest J Rawleigh used color to highlight scenes of everyday life in the 1920s
• Another Look: Harry Yates Edgewood Farm (John H. Conlin)

Winter 2009
• The Hole Truth: Freddie's Doughnuts and the Krispy Kreme Connection (Jason Maier)
• Driving Buffalo's Heritage to the Future: The Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum (Donald B. Hutton)
• The Progressive Architecture of Lewis F. Allen (John H. Conlin)
• Saving Buffalo Bill: Discovery of the Jamestown Buffalo Bill Billboard (Laura Schell)
• Pioneer Preacher Glezen Fillmore (John W. Percy)
• Old Album: Williamsville 100 years ago from 18 glass negatives (John H. Conlin)
• Buffalo Walk of Fame (Clarence C. Picard)
• The Sullivanesque South Buffalo Bank
• Another Look: Rosary Hall (Carol Cardinale)

Spring 2009
• Grant's Indian (Pax Riddle)
• The Architecture of Calvin N. Otis (John H. Conlin)
• 1780 British Warship is Found (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Hascal L. Taylor: The Man Who Commissioned Adler & Sullivan's Buffalo Building (Jason Aronoff)
• Lincoln's Connections to Western New York (Alan V. Manchester)
• Old Photo Album: Buffalo's Central Terminal in 1929; original documentary photos (John H. Conlin)
• Another Look: Willert Park Courts (Susan J. Eck)

Summer 2009
• Flight of Five: Where Art and Science Tamed Nature (Douglas Farley)
• Rural Richardson: The Farm at the Buffalo State Hospital (Ruth L. Davis)
• Raphael Beck (Lynn Beman)
• Ecclesiastical Expert: Chester Oakley's Masterpiece in Western New York (Clarence C. Picard)
• Moon Landing: The Road Went Through Western New York (Jacek A. Wysocki
• Old Photo Album: the Buffalo Skyway, mid-20th century (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Another Look: The Lackawanna Steel Office Building (Douglas W. DeCroix)

Fall 2009
• The Man Who Did Almost Everything Right (Dave Dyer)
• Cobblestone Country (Alissa Monti)
• From Russian... With Log! (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Buffalo's Two-Canvas Knockout (David Martin)
• Building Boom: Mail-Order and Plan Book Houses in the Buffalo Area (Daniel D. Reiff, Ph.D.)
• Another Look: Statler Towers (Alissa Monti)

Winter 2010
• "Old Probabilities" Albert Myer and the U.S. Weather Bureau (Bob Gilbert)
• Painless Dentistry Pioneer: Ralph Britton Waite (Alan V. Manchester)
• Colonel Cyrenius Chapin: The Brave Soldier, The Good Citizen, The Honest Man (C. Douglas Kohler)
• Aesthetic Industry: The Buffalo Stained Glass Works (Gregory L. Witul)
• Old Photo Album: High School Sports in the Roaring Twenties
• Historian's Notebook: Admiral Byrd's Snow Cruiser (John W. Percy)
• Remembering Buki (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Another Look: Buehl's Block (Clarence C. Picard)

Spring 2010
• Crossing to Freedom: Harriet Tubman and John A. Roebling's Niagara Suspension Bridge (William A. Siener & Thomas A. Chambers)
• Buffalo's "Born Again" Churches (Bill Koch)
• Buffalo's Own First Lady: Frances Folsom Cleveland (Mark D. Evans)
• "Opportunities to be had..." Kate Stoneman: New York's First Woman Lawyer (Joni Blackman)
• Old Photo Album: The PWA in Buffalo: Sewer Replacement Work (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• No Bones About It: The Spirella Corset Company (Douglas W. DeCroix)

Summer 2010
• Caption Lou and Your Buffalo Bisons (Howard W. Henry, Jr.)
• Ride the Rails to Cascade Park: Excursions on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad (Alan V. Manchester)
• The Buffalo Yacht Club: 150 Years of Boating ( Gerould R. Stange)
• Cooliing the Heat of Battle: Lockport's Largest Employer Did Its Part in World War II (Douglas Farley)
• Old Photo Album: Tour the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens as they looked 100 years ago (Douglas DeCroix)
• Another Look: The Buffalo Cultural Walk of Fame & Michael Dominico (Clarence C. Picard)

Fall 2010
• Before There Was Grape Juice (John Thomas Slater)
• Larkin Decline (Howard R. Stanger, Ph.D.)
• Alfred's School of Ceramics: Still on Top ( Barbara Irene Lovenheim)
• A Legacy of Hope: Dr. Roswell Park (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Old Photo Album: Ernest J. Rawling's Family Photo Album (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Another Look: M & T Time Capsule (Clarence C. Picard)

Winter 2011
• For I Never Would Have Surrendered: The 1886 Fenian Invasion of Canada (C. Douglas Kohler)
• Buffalo Hotels and the Niagara Movement: New Evidence Refutes an Old Legend (Cynthia Van Ness)
• From a Cambria Farm to National Fame and Back Again: The Seven Sutherland Sisters ( Brandon M. Stickney)
• Sometimes Conservation is a "Piece of Cake" (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• History Written with Jazz: The Colored Musician's Club of Buffalo (Joel Rudewicz with Chris Root)
• Old Photo Album: Winter Life in Jamestown and Chautauqua County (Fenton History Center)
• Another Look: "Building 88": The Barracks at Fort Niagara State Park (Douglas W. DeCroix)

Spring 2011
• The Remarkable Caroline G. Parker Mountpleasant, Seneca Wolf Clan (Deborah R. Holler)
• The Dean of Circus Men: Edward Thorn (Melissa Dunlap)
• Top of the First: Early Baseball Legends in Western New York (Heidi Bamford)
• The Afternoon the Sun Disappeared over Western New York (Stephen Vermette)
• The White Oaks of Grand Island (Clarence C. Picard)
• Old Photo Album: 174th Infantry (NYNG) conducting summer training 1923 (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Another Look: Bridging the Upper Niagara (Susan Eck)

Summer 2011
• Redware and Stoneware: A History of Pottery Along the Erie Canal (Jeffrey Bagel)
• 175 Years of Libraries in Buffalo and Erie County (Anne Conable)
• A Visit to Niagara Falls (Jacek A. Wysocki)
• It's a Trip! A Pair of Regional Milestones in Naval Aviation (Douglas DeCroix)
• In Loving Memory (Melissa N. Brown)
• Old Photo Album: A Summer Drive Through the Countryside (Douglas DeCroix)

Fall 2011
• Vaudeville, Vacancy and Restoration: A History of the Hollywood Theater in Gowanda (Stephen L. Cocca)
• Perspective on Prospect: Preservation in the Historic West Village (Dana Saylor-Furman)
• Pioneering Professional: Louise Blanchard Bethune (Susan Calverley)
• The M.H. Birge & Sons Company: A Design Wonderland in Buffalo (Bonnie Ulrich)
• Erie County's Hull House: Restoration and Reimagining in Progress (Ted Bartlett)
• Old Photo Album: A survey of historic preservation projects across the region
• Another Look: The Mysterious Gazebo at ECMC
• Sherwin Greenberg: Focused Insight (John H. Conlin)

Winter 2012
• The Road to Camp Sumter: Wilson's Ira S. Pettit (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Frontier Justice: Lawyers Come West (Jacek A. Wysocki)
• Lackawanna Steel and the Battleship Maine (Jerry Soltis)
• Ambush at Devil's Hole: Massacre or Job Action? (Stephen L. Cocca)
• A Man and his Dancing Queen (Matthew Biddle)
• Old Photo Album: Buffalo's Electric Tower celebrates its hundredth anniversary (Matthew Biddle)
• Another Look: Storm clouds over St.Adalbert's Basilica (Douglas W. DeCroix)
• Endnotes: Creating a Legacy with Painting for Preservation (Matthew Biddle)