A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850

A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850
Author: Frank Luther Mott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1938
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674395503

"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.

Backwoods Utopias

Backwoods Utopias
Author: Arthur Bestor
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1512809640

The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities—communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion, politics, economics, and education in American society. For, as James Madison wrote, the American Republic was "useful in proving things before held impossible." The communitarian ideal had its roots in the radical Protestant sects of the Reformation. Arthur Bestor shows the connection between the "holy commonwealths" of the colonial period and the nonsectarian experiments of the nineteenth century. He examines in particular detail Robert Owen's ideals and problems in creating New Harmony. Two essays have been added to this volume for the second edition. In these, "Patent-Office Models of the Good Society" and "The Transit of Communitarian Socialism to America," Bestor discusses the effects of the frontier and of the migration of European ideas and people on these communities. He holds that the communitarians could believe in the possibility of nonviolent revolution through imitation of a small perfect society only as long as they saw American institutions as flexible. By the end of the nineteenth century, as American society became less plastic, belief in the power of successful models weakened.

Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands

Blue Pencils & Hidden Hands
Author: Sharon M. Harris
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781555536138

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.