Magazines and the American Experience ? Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.

Steven Lomazow

ISBN 10: 1605830917 / ISBN 13: 9781605830919

Published by Grolier Club of New York, 2021

About this Item

2021. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9781605830919

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Magazines and the American Experience ? Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, M.D.
• Publisher: Grolier Club of New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605830917
• ISBN 13: 9781605830919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A gorgeously illustrated tour of several centuries of American magazine history.
 
The history of the American magazine is intricately entwined with the history of the nation itself. In the colonial eighteenth century, magazines were crucial outlets for revolutionary thought, with the first statement of American independence appearing in Thomas Paine’s Pennsylvania Magazine in June 1776. In the eighteenth century, magazines were some of the first staging grounds for still-contentious debates on Federalism and states’ rights. In the years that followed, the landscape of publications spread in every direction to explore aspects of American life from sports to politics, religion to entertainment, and beyond.

Magazines and the American Experience is an expansive and chronological tour of the American magazine from 1733 to the present. Illustrated with more than four hundred color images, the book examines an enormous selection of specialty magazines devoted to a range of interests running from labor to leisure to literature. The contributors—Leonard Banco and Suze Bienaimee, both experts in the field of periodical history—devote particular focus to magazines written for and by Black Americans throughout US history, including David Ruggles’s Mirror of History (1838), [Frederick] Douglass’ Monthly (1859), the combative Messenger (1917), the Negro Digest (1942), and Essence (1970). With its mix of detailed descriptions, historical context, and lush illustrations, this handsome guide to American magazines should entice casual readers and serious collectors alike.
 

 
 

About the Author

Steven Lomazow, is adjunct professor of history at Kean University and was the primary periodical consultant for the Newseum in Washington, DC.