A History of American Magazines

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.

## Volume I

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* 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

## Volume V

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* The American Mercury
* Appleton's Booklovers Magazine
* Fruit, Garden and Home
* Better Homes & Gardens
* Better Homes and Gardens
* Current History
* The Editor and Publisher
* The Editor & Publisher
* Everybody's Magazine
* The Golden Book of Magazines
* Good Housekeeping
* Broadway Magazine
* The House Beautiful
* House Beautiful
* The Little Review
* The Midland
* The New Republic
* Poetry
* The Smart Set
* The South Atlantic Quarterly
* Success Magazine
* Time
* The Yale Review

## References

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1. ^ "The 1939 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". Pulitzer. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
2. ^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer (2017). The Pulitzer Prize Century: All Winners and Their Merits 1917-2016. LIT Verlag Münster. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-3-643-90882-7.
3. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 289–. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
4. ^ Mott1930
5. ^ Mott1968
6. ^ Mott1930,p.2-3
7. ^ Frank Luther Mott (1930). A History of American Magazines, Volume 1 1741-1850. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674395503. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
8. ^ Frank Luther Mott (1968). A History of American Magazines, Volume V. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674395541.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

1917–1919|

* With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand (1917)
* A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 by James Ford Rhodes (1918)

1920–1939|

* The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith (1920)
* The Victory at Sea by William Sims and Burton J. Hendrick (1921)
* The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams (1922)
* The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren (1923)
* The American Revolution by Charles Howard McIlwain (1924)
* History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson (1925)
* A History of the United States by Edward Channing (1926)
* Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis (1927)
* Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington (1928)
* The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865 by Fred Albert Shannon (1929)
* The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne (1930)
* The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt (1931)
* My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing (1932)
* The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner (1933)
* The People's Choice by Herbert Agar (1934)
* The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews (1935)
* A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936)
* The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937)
* The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938)
* A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott (1939)

1940–1959|

* Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg (1940)
* The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen (1941)
* Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865 by Margaret Leech (1942)
* Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes (1943)
* The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti (1944)
* Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal (1945)
* The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1946)
* Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III (1947)
* Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto (1948)
* The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols (1949)
* Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin (1950)
* The Old Northwest by R. Carlyle Buley (1951)
* The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin (1952)
* The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield (1953)
* A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton (1954)
* Great River by Paul Horgan (1955)
* The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter (1956)
* Russia Leaves the War by George F. Kennan (1957)
* Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond (1958)
* The Republican Era, 1869–1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider (1959)

1960–1979|

* In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech (1960)
* Between War and Peace by Herbert Feis (1961)
* The Triumphant Empire by Lawrence H. Gipson (1962)
* Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green (1963)
* Puritan Village by Sumner Chilton Powell (1964)
* The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (1965)
* The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller (1966)
* Exploration and Empire by William H. Goetzmann (1967)
* The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (1968)
* Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard Levy (1969)
* Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson (1970)
* Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns (1971)
* Neither Black nor White by Carl N. Degler (1972)
* People of Paradox by Michael Kammen (1973)
* The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin (1974)
* Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone (1975)
* Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan (1976)
* The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 by David M. Potter (completed and edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher; 1977)
* The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. (1978)
* The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher (1979)

1980–1999|

* Been in the Storm So Long by Leon Litwack (1980)
* American Education by Lawrence A. Cremin (1981)
* Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward (1982)
* The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys Isaac (1983)
* Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw (1985)
* ...The Heavens and the Earth by Walter A. McDougall (1986)
* Voyagers to the West by Bernard Bailyn (1987)
* The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce (1988)
* Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson (1989)
* Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (1989)
* In Our Image by Stanley Karnow (1990)
* A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1991)
* The Fate of Liberty by Mark E. Neely Jr. (1992)
* The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood (1993)
* No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1995)
* William Cooper's Town by Alan Taylor (1996)
* Original Meanings by Jack N. Rakove (1997)
* Summer for the Gods by Edward J. Larson (1998)
* Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace (1999)

2000–2021|

* Freedom from Fear by David M. Kennedy (2000)
* Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (2001)
* The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (2002)
* An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (2003)
* A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn (2004)
* Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer (2005)
* Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky (2006)
* The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (2007)
* What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (2008)
* The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon-Reed (2009)
* Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (2010)
* The Fiery Trial by Eric Foner (2011)
* Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (2012)
* Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall (2013)
* The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor (2014)
* Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn (2015)
* Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles (2016)
* Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson (2017)
* The Gulf by Jack E. Davis (2018)
* Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (2019)
* Sweet Taste of Liberty by W. Caleb McDaniel (2020)
* Franchise by Marcia Chatelain (2021)
* Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace / Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (2022)
* Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie (2023)
* No Right to an Honest Living by Jacqueline Jones (2024)
* Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal / Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black

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