History book by Frank Luther Mott
A History of American Magazines Title page for volume of A History of American Magazines posthumously published in 1968
Author Frank Luther Mott Language English Genre Non-fiction Publication place United States
A History of American Magazines is a 5-volume set of nonfiction books by Frank Luther Mott . Volumes II and III of the set won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] The first volume was published in 1930,[ 4] and the fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968.[ 5]
Mott laid out the case for studying American periodicals in the introduction to the first volume. He believed that magazines provide three services, including providing democratic literature of high quality, playing an important part in the economics of literature, and furnishing "an invaluable contemporaneous history of their times."[ 6]
The volumes include:
A History of American Magazines, Volume I, 1741-1850 [ 7]
A History of American Magazines, Volume II, 1850-1865
A History of American Magazines, Volume III, 1865-1885
A History of American Magazines, Volume IV, 1885-1905
A History of American Magazines, Volume V: Sketches of 21 Magazines, 1905-1930 [ 8]
Each volume includes sketches of individual magazines.
The American Magazine, or A Monthly View
The General Magazine
The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle
The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle
The Royal American Magazine
The Pennsylvania Magazine
The Worcester Magazine
The Columbian Magazine and The Universal Asylum
The American Museum
The American Magazine
The Massachusetts Magazine
The Christian's, Scholar's, and Farmer's Magazine
The New-York Magazine
The Medical Repository
The Monthly Magazine, and American Review
The Port Folio
The Boston Weekly Magazine ; The Emerald
The American Baptist Magazine
The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review
The Monthly Register and Review of the United States
The Panoplist
The American Mineralogical Journal
Niles' Weekly Register
The American Review, and The American Quarterly Review
The Analectic Magazine , and The Literary Gazette
Christian Disciple, and Christian Examiner
The Portico
The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
The Methodist Review
The American Journal of Science
The Eclectic Magazine , and Its Progenitors
The Christian Spectator
The Western Review
The Literary and Scientific Repository
The Christian Advocate
The New England Farmer
The New York Mirror
The United States Literary Gazette, and The United States Review and Literary Gazette
The Atlantic Magazine, and The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine
The Biblical Repertory , and The Princeton Review
The New-Harmony Gazette, and The Free Enquirer
The American Journal of Pharmacy
The American Journal of Education
Graham's Magazine , and The Casket
Journal of the Franklin Institute
The Western Monthly Review
The Friend
The American Journal of Medical Sciences
The Spirit of the Pilgrims
The Southern Review
The American Monthly Magazine (Willis's)
Godey's Lady's Book
The Illinois Monthly; The Western Monthly
The New-England Magazine
The American Monthly Review
The Knickerbocker Magazine
The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature
The Ladies' Companion (Snowden's)
The Southern Literary Magazine
The Western Messenger
The Southern Literary Journal
The Christian Review
The New York Review (Henry's)
The Ladies' Garland
Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
The Democratic Review
The Boston Quarterly Review , and Brownson's Quarterly Review
The Hesperian
The Connecticut Common School Journal
The Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review
The Magnolia; or, Southern Apalachian
The Dial (Boston)
Arcturus
Merry's Museum
The United States Catholic Magazine
The Boston Miscellany
The Southern Quarterly Review
The American Agriculturist
Miss Leslie's Magazine and Arthur's Ladies' Magazine
The Pioneer (Lowell's)
The Bibliotheca Sacra
The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine
The Christian Parlor Magazine
Littell's Living Age
The American Whig Review
The Southern and Western Magazine
The Broadway Journal
The Harbinger
The Literary World
The Union Magazine
Friends' Review
The Massachusetts Quarterly Review
The John-Donkey
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