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Andrew Bradford publishes "American Magazine," the first magazine in the United States. Bradford took this idea from Ben Franklin, who published "General Magazine" a few days later. Both magazines featured articles about economic and political issues, and had obvious attempts to form public opinion.
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William Bradford starts "American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle." This magazine incorporates humor into economic and political articles.
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Author of "Common Sense", Thomas Paine, assumes the role of editor at "Pennsylvania Magazine." This magazine was extremely important during the Revolution, because of its support for the war. However, it was not successful in the long run.
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"Knickerbocker", "Graham's Magazine", and "Saturday Evening Post" are all published and geared towards the middle class. Magazines now encompassed a great variety of topics, ranging from fashion to diets. "Godey's", a feminist movement magazine, gave women writers an opportunity to be featured in print as well.
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Fashion, diets, moral, and health appear on the pages of several new women's magazines. Women writers gain recognition.
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"Harper's Monthly" reprints material previously published, with illustrations in woodcut. It is most famous for its illustrations depicting the Civil War. Years later, "Harper's Weekly" would also be famous for publishing war photographs. "Weekly" would help expose a political scam through political cartoons in 1870 New York as well.
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This magazine targeted women with articles on gardening, children, fashion, and recipes. It also implemented powerful advertising.
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Theodore Roosevelt declares magazines who seek to undermine corrupt politics "muckrackers," and several articles are published revealing such practices. This ends in 1912, however, due to reader boredom.
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Boom in magazine production is caused by better, more cost efficient printing techniques, more money, and the Postal Act of 1879. Circulation became much easier.
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The time between World War I and II brought about three types of magazines: the digest, the newspagazine, and the pictoral magazine.
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"Reader's Digest" features articles already published elsewhere, but in a condensed form for hurried readers.
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"Time" magazine begins the new era of newsmagazines, in which distillation and compartmentalization play a huge roles. Other innovaitons include the use of narratives, group journalism, and a jargon writing style.
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Both magazines are modeled after "Time."
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With a quarter million subsribers early on, "Life" focused on the lives of public figures in everyday life. This format would last for another 36 years.
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"Look" had many similarities with "Life" but focuses more on the personalites of public figures. It becomes more of a family magazine before it stopped in 1972.
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The increasingly liberalized America allows for broader topics, such as sex as seen in "Confidential" and "Playboy", and race issues, as in "Ebony" and "Negro Digest."
