The Atlantic Monthly was created in 1857 by Moses Dresser Phillips with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Boston. The first issue came in November of that same year, and the early magazine would feature poems and serialized…
The Chicago American was a Chicago newspaper that was printed from 1900-1939. The paper would change its name in 1939 to the Chicago Herald-American, which at one point employed future president John F. Kennedy, in 1953 back to the Chicago American,…
The Chicago Daily News was created on Christmas of 1875 by Melville E. Stone. The paper was so promising, it was bought by Victor Fremont Larson in 1876, while still retaining Stone as editor. The paper cost one-cent.
After experimenting with raido…
The Chicago Record-Herald is the result of a merger between the Chicago Record and the Times-Herald. Times-Herald owner, H. H. Kohlsaat, bought the Chicago Record from Chicago Daily News publisher Victor Fremont Lawson in 1901. Kohlsaat named the…
The Chicago Chronicle was organized fill the spot of a democratic daily newspaper when the Times-Herald announced that it would conduct itself as a republican newspaper. The Chronicle was financed by John R. Walsh, published by Horatio W. Seymour,…
Published by The Century Company of New York City,The Century Magazinebegan as an evangelical Christian publication. Before merging withThe Forum,The Century Magazine had become one of the largest publications of the 19th cenutry. It was most famous…
The Ladies' Home Journal grew out of a column devoted to women's issues in the Tribune and Farmer written by Louise Knapp, who was the wife of the publisher Cyrus H. K, Curtis. Knapp was the magazine's first editor, serving from 1883-1889, when…
Co-founded by S. S. McClure and John Sanborn Philips,McClure's Magazine was most known for its investigative journalism, or "muckraking", as well as serialized novels. Published muchracking journalists include Ida Tarbell, Ray Stannard Baker, and…
The Outlookwas one of the top ranking magazines at the beginning of the 20th century. Booker T. Washington contributed autobiographical pieces to the magazine which he combined to formUp from Slaveryin 1901. The magazine merged withThe Independent in…
Founded by Henry Dutton and James Wentworth, The Transcript has been compared to The New York Times in terms of quality and reliability. It contained many works of poetry during its publication, as well as valuable geneological information.
The American Magazine was a renaming of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, which began publishing in 1876, and was renamed several times before it became The American Magazine in 1906. While the magazine was founded by muckraking journalists, the…
The Review began as a small magazine publishing little bits of fiction and poetry, yet one which had access to pieces by New England authors the likes of John Adams and William Cullen Bryant, with the latter becoming famous due to his contribution to…
Originally known as Charities and the Commons, The Survey Graphic was formed originally to help charities give and receive information and advice, as well as a review of local and general philanthropy.
Established in 1895, the Metropolitan Magazinecovered the New York City theater scene. In 1902, the magazine came under new ownership, and in the 1910s it covered literature and politics. Under the leadership of Melville E. Stone Jr., the publication…
The Chicago Daily Tribune, founded in 1847, is the most well-read and influential Chicago daily newspaper. Under editor and co-owner Joseph Medill, the Tribune became known as a Republican paper that supported Abraham Lincoln and emancipation. After…
A fashion magazine first published in 1867 by Harper & Brothers, the publisher also responsible for Harper's Magazine and Harper's Weekly. The magazine took heavy inspiration from the German magazine Der Bazar, and often shared content with it in…
The Traveller was originally published by clergymen as a paper centered around the temperance movement. Yet with the arrival of Roland Worthington several months into the history of the newspaper, the paper became more oriented towards the views of…
The Boston Globe began publication in 1872, bankrolled by 6 local businessmen investing a total of $150,000 into the newspaper at its inception. The paper went on to become the most read paper in New England in the early 1900's due to the efforts of…
The Saturday Evening Post started out as a small family newspaper operating out of Philadelphia, on Benjamin Franklin's old printing presses. It gained a reputation for quality journalism unfettered by sensationalism in an era of dramatic events for…
The Herald first distinguished itself through its nonpartisan reporting, and was the first to publish "extra" editions during the murder of Helen Jewett, with its coverage of the crime receiving widespread attention. By 1845, the newspaper had the…
Good Housekeeping was first published in 1885 on a biweekly basis, and assumed its current monthly format in 1891. It is most noted for its Research Institute, which tests the various products recommended by the magazine, and gives them the "Good…
The Woman's Journal was an American women's rights publication. It was founded by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell. Publishing weekly for much of its history, it primarily focused its attention on women's suffrage, although it did…
