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The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1741 in London was the first general-interest magazine. [7] Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse, [8] the quote being: "a monthly collection, to treasure up as in a ...
Today, the magazine is a print-digital hybrid. In 2020, The Spectator became the longest-lived current affairs magazine in history (overtaking The Gentleman's Magazine, which published from 1731 to 1922), and was also the first magazine ever to publish 10,000 issues.
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for The New York Times.
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. It features articles on politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
The magazine produced many popular science serials, such as The World We Live In and The Epic of Man in the early 1950s. The magazine continued to showcase the work of notable illustrators, such as Alton S. Tobey, whose contributions included the cover for a 1958 series of articles on the history of the Russian Revolution. [citation needed]
The Electric Company Magazine, Scholastic (1972–1987) Enter, Sesame Workshop (1983–1985) Highlights for Children; Hot Dog!, Scholastic (1979–199?) Jack and Jill, The Saturday Evening Post (1938-2009) Lego Magazine (defunct) Muse; National Geographic Kids Magazine; Nickelodeon Magazine (defunct) The Open Road for Boys (defunct)
First issue of Amazing Stories, dated April 1926, cover art by Frank R. Paul. Science-fiction and fantasy magazines began to be published in the United States in the 1920s. . Stories with science-fiction themes had been appearing for decades in pulp magazines such as Argosy, but there were no magazines that specialized in a single genre until 1915, when Street & Smith, one of the major pulp ...
A History of American Magazines is a 5-volume set of nonfiction books by Frank Luther Mott. Volumes II and III of the set won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for History . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first volume was published in 1930, [ 4 ] and the fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968.