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Useful Reference Titles
Greenwood Press publishes a series of books that provide historical information on periodicals published in the U.S. and Great Britain. Organized by subject, audience, or time period, they're great sources for information on the cultural, social, and political contexts in which specific titles were created. Many of these are listed below, in call number order.
United States
- American literary magazines : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4877 .A52
- American mass-market magazinesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4877 .A51
- A history and bibliography of American magazines, 1810-1820Call Number: Olin Ref PN4877 .E23
- A history and bibliography of American magazines, 1800-1810Call Number: Olin Ref PN4877.L67 H6 1955a
- Magazines in the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4877 .W87 1971
- Children’s periodicals of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4878.K29 C5
- Regional interest magazines of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4878.7 .R36
- Women’s periodicals in the United States : consumer magazinesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4879 .W6 1995
- Women’s periodicals in the United States : social and political issuesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4879 .W614x 1996
- American humor magazines and comic periodicalsCall Number: Olin Ref PN4880 .A51
- The Ethnic press in the United States : a historical analysis and handbookCall Number: Olin Ref PN4882 .E84
- Black journals of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4882.5 .D18
- American Indian and Alaska native newspapers and periodicalsCall Number: Olin Ref PN4883 .L773 vols.
- Business journals of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.C59 B97
- The conservative press in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century AmericaCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.C598 C66x 1999
- The conservative press in twentieth-century AmericaCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.C598 C664x 1999
- Corporate magazines of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.E6 C67x 1992
- Religious periodicals of the United States : academic and scholarly journalsCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.R4 L76 1986
- Popular religious magazines of the United StatesCall Number: Olin Ref PN4888.R4 P67x 1995
- Magazines of the American SouthCall Number: Olin Ref PN4893 .R57
Great Britain, UK
- British literary magazinesCall Number: Olin Reference PN5124.L6 B86
- Consumer magazines of the British IslesCall Number: Olin Reference PN5124.P4 C58x 1993
Age of the Story Tellers: British popular fiction magazines, 1880-1950Call Number: Print copy: Olin Reference PN5124.F45 A73 2006 +Publication Date: British Library, 2006Provides coverage of 144 titles, seventy in full-length entries, charting their contribution to and influence upon popular literature. There are illustrations reproducing covers and features from every magazine, with 72 color images. Also considers the collecting significance of these titles and will be of importance to collectors and book dealers as well as literary researchers and bibliophiles.
