A History of American Magazines

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. The first volume was published in 1930, and the fifth volume was published posthumously in 1968.
Mott laid out the case for studying American periodicals in the introduction to the first volume. He believed that magazines provide three services, including providing democratic literature of high quality, playing an important part in the economics of literature, and furnishing "an invaluable contemporaneous history of their times."
The volumes include:A History of American Magazines, Volume I, 1741-1850A History of American Magazines, Volume II, 1850-1865A History of American Magazines, Volume III, 1865-1885A History of American Magazines, Volume IV, 1885-1905A History of American Magazines, Volume V: Sketches of 21 Magazines, 1905-1930
Each volume includes sketches of individual magazines.

Volume I

The American Magazine, or A Monthly ViewThe General MagazineThe American Magazine and Historical ChronicleThe American Magazine and Monthly ChronicleThe Royal American MagazineThe Pennsylvania MagazineThe Worcester MagazineThe Columbian Magazine and The Universal Asylum

The American MuseumThe American Magazine
The Massachusetts MagazineThe Christian's, Scholar's, and Farmer's MagazineThe New-York Magazine
The Medical RepositoryThe Monthly Magazine, and American ReviewThe Port FolioThe Boston Weekly Magazine; The EmeraldThe American Baptist MagazineThe Monthly Anthology and Boston ReviewThe Monthly Register and Review of the United StatesThe PanoplistThe American Mineralogical Journal
Niles' Weekly RegisterThe American Review, and The American Quarterly ReviewThe Analectic Magazine, and The Literary GazetteChristian Disciple, and Christian ExaminerThe PorticoThe American Monthly Magazine and Critical ReviewThe Methodist ReviewThe American Journal of ScienceThe Eclectic Magazine, and Its ProgenitorsThe Christian SpectatorThe Western ReviewThe Literary and Scientific RepositoryThe Christian AdvocateThe New England FarmerThe New York MirrorThe United States Literary Gazette, and The United States Review and Literary GazetteThe Atlantic Magazine, and The New-York Review, and Atheneum MagazineThe Biblical Repertory, and The Princeton ReviewThe New-Harmony Gazette, and The Free EnquirerThe American Journal of PharmacyThe American Journal of EducationGraham's Magazine, and The CasketJournal of the Franklin InstituteThe Western Monthly ReviewThe FriendThe American Journal of Medical SciencesThe Spirit of the PilgrimsThe Southern ReviewThe American Monthly Magazine Godey's Lady's BookThe Illinois Monthly; The Western MonthlyThe New-England MagazineThe American Monthly ReviewThe Knickerbocker MagazineThe Select Journal of Foreign Periodical LiteratureThe Ladies' Companion The Southern Literary MagazineThe Western MessengerThe Southern Literary JournalThe Christian ReviewThe New York Review The Ladies' GarlandBurton's Gentleman's MagazineThe Democratic ReviewThe Boston Quarterly Review, and Brownson's Quarterly ReviewThe HesperianThe Connecticut Common School JournalThe Merchant's Magazine and Commercial ReviewThe Magnolia; or, Southern ApalachianThe Dial ArcturusMerry's MuseumThe United States Catholic MagazineThe Boston MiscellanyThe Southern Quarterly ReviewThe American AgriculturistMiss Leslie's Magazine and Arthur's Ladies' MagazineThe Pioneer The Bibliotheca SacraThe Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's MagazineThe Christian Parlor MagazineLittell's Living AgeThe American Whig ReviewThe Southern and Western MagazineThe Broadway JournalThe HarbingerThe Literary WorldThe Union MagazineFriends' ReviewThe Massachusetts Quarterly Review
''The John-Donkey''

Volume V

The American Mercury