The American Magazine And Historical Chronicle

"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 of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.

This study stands chronologically at the head of the many single-magazine investigations to be undertaken for American periodicals and is only one of the several American Magazines in colonial and post-revolutionary America to be examined in this series.