- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: The Period of Beginnings; 1741–1794
- 1. Motives, Nature, and Problems of the First Magazines
- 2. What the First Magazines Printed
- Supplement to Part I: Sketches of Certain Important Magazines, 1741–1794
- 1. The American Magazine, or A Monthly View
- 2. The General Magazine
- 3. The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle
- 4. The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle
- 5. The Royal American Magazine
- 6. The Pennsylvania Magazine
- 7. The Worcester Magazine
- 8. The Columbian Magazine and The Universal Asylum
- 9. The American Museum
- 10. The American Magazine
- 11. The Massachusetts Magazine
- 12. The Christian’s, Scholar’s, and Farmer’s Magazine
- 13. The New-York Magazine
- Part II: The Period of Nationalism: 1794–1825
- 3. Nature of the Magazines of the Second Period
- 4. The Relation of the Magazines of the Second Period to the Sciences, Politics, the Arts, and “Belles-Lettres”
- 5. The Third War With England; Publishing Problems
- Supplement to Part II: Sketches of Certain Important Magazines: 1794-1825
- 14. The Medical Repository
- 15. The Monthly Magazine, and American Review, and its successors under the editorship of Charles Brockden Brown
- 16. The Port Folio
- 17. The Boston Weekly Magazine; The Emerald
- 18. The American Baptist Magazine
- 19. The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review
- 20. The Monthly Register and Review of the Unites States
- 21. The Panoplist
- 22. The American Mineralogical Journal
- 23. Nile’s Weekly Register
- 24. The American Review, and The American Quarterly Review
- 25. The General Repository and Review
- 26. The Analectic Magazine, and The Literary Gazette
- 27. Christian Disciple, and Christian Examiner
- 28. The Portico
- 29. The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review
- 30. The Methodist Review
- 31. The American Journal of Science
- 32. The Eclectic Magazine, and Its Progenitor
- 33. The Christian Spectator
- 34. The Western Review
- 35. The Literary and Scientific Repository
- 36. The Christian Advocate
- 37. The New England Farmer (Fessenden’s)
- 38. The New York Mirror
- 39. The United States Literary Gazette, and The United States Review and Literary Gazette
- 40. The Atlantic Magazine, and The New-York Review and Atheneum Magazine
- Part III: The Period of Expansion: 1825–1850
- 6. General Periodicals in the Era of Expansion
- 7. Magazine Centers and Foreign Relations
- 8. Types of Writing in the Magazines; the Arts and Sciences
- 9. Politics, Economics, Reforms, and Fads
- 10. Editors, Contributors, and Management
- Supplement to Part III: Sketches of Certain Important Magazines: 1825-1850
- 41. The Biblical Repertory, and The Princeton Review
- 42. The New-Harmony Gazette, and The Free Enquirer
- 43. The American Journal of Pharmacy
- 44. The American Journal of Education (Russell’s)
- 45. Graham’s Magazine, and The Casket
- 46. Journal of the Franklin Institute
- 47. The Western Monthly Review
- 48. The Friend
- 49. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
- 50. The Spirit of the Pilgrims
- 51. The Southern Review
- 52. The American Monthly Magazine (Willis’s)
- 53. Godey’s Lady’s Book
- 54. The Illinois Monthly; The Western Monthly
- 55. The New-England Magazine (Buckingham’s)
- 56. The American Monthly Review
- 57. The Knickerbocker Magazine
- 58. The Select Journal of Foreign Periodical Literature
- 59. The American Monthly Magazine (Benjamin’s)
- 60. Parley’s Magazine
- 61. The Literary and Theological Review
- 62. The Ladies’ Companion (Snowden’s)
- 63. The Southern Literary Journal
- 64. The Western Messenger
- 65. The Southern Literary Journal
- 66. The Christian Review
- 67. The New York Review (Henry’s)
- 68. The Ladies’ Garland
- 69. Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine
- 70. The Democratic Review
- 71. The Boston Quarterly Review, and Browson’s Quarterly Review
- 72. The Hesperian
- 73. The Connecticut Common School Journal
- 74. The Merchant’s Magazine and Commercial Review
- 75. The Magnolia; or, Southern Apalachian
- 76. The Dial (Boston)
- 77. Arcturus
- 78. Merry’s Museum
- 79. The United States Catholic Magazine
- 80. The Boston Miscellany
- 81. The Southern Quarterly Review
- 82. The American Agriculturist
- 83. Miss Leslie’s Magazine and Arthur’s Ladies’ Magazine
- 84. The Pioneer (Lowell’s)
- 85. The Bibliotheca Sacra
- 86. The Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine
- 87. The Christian Parlor Magazine
- 88. Littell’s Living Age
- 89. The American Whig Review
- 90. The Southern and Western Magazine
- 91. The Broadway Journal
- 92. The Harbinger
- 93. The Literary World (Ducyckinck’s)
- 94. The Union Magazine
- 95. Friends’ Review
- 96. The Massachusetts Quarterly Review
- 97. The John-Donkey
- Appendix
- Chronological List of Magazines
- Index
A History of American Magazines, Volume I: 1741–1850
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