This long-overdue collection offers a unique foray into the multicultural world of reading and readers in the United States.

This volume chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time.

Pulp fiction' s lurid adventures were vividly reflected on the magazines' eye-catching covers.

"The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age ...