"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a `smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mark on modern American culture.

Covering the decades from the 1830s through the end of the century, as well as the eastern, southern, and western regions of the United States, these essays, by a diverse group of scholars, examine a variety of periodicals from the well ...

"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 ...

"The future of magazines? Murky. Their past? Glorious. How we got from there to here is told in this compelling history. It's thrilling, funny, disturbing, sad, and ultimately inspiring.

The first volume of this work, covering the period from 1741-1850, was issued in 1931 by another publisher, and is reissued now without change, under our imprint.

I highly recommend this book."--Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina "This book is a marvel of scholarship that marries organization theory with the history of magazines and publishing in America.

This collection of original critical essays explores how women periodical editors in the long 19th century redefined women's identities and roles, and influenced public opinion about such issues as abolition and woman suffrage.

Introduction -- Larger socio-cultural realm -- Historical context -- Press functions -- Sojourner mentality -- Religious intolerance -- Political press issues -- Literary mission : belle-lettres -- Fundamental internal press issues -- ...

The purpose of this study is to reconstruct the images of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich available to the American general magazine reader from the initial references to him in March, 1923, until his attack on Poland in September, 1939.

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