Histories of Magazines and Newspapers
- American Mass Market MagazinesCall Number: Olin Library Reference PN 4877 .A51New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
One title in an extensive series of collections of historical essays on individual magazine and journal titles published by Greenwood. There are 26 other titles in this series, Historical Guides to the World's Magazines and Newspapers. - Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer MagazinesCall Number: Olin Library Reference PN 4879 .W6 1995New York: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Another title from Greenwood's Historical Guides to the World's Magazines and Newspapers series (mentioned previously in this list). - The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880-1950Call Number: Olin Library Reference PN 5124 .F45 A73 2006. Also available online.London: British Library; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
Profiles of seventy major fiction magazines. - The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422-1992Call Number: Olin Library Reference PN 5114 .E53x 1992 +New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
A history of British journalism with biographical entries on major British journalists. - Magazines for LibrariesCall Number: Olin Library Reference Z 6941 .K21. Uris Library Oversize Periodical Z 6941 .K21 +New York: Bowker, 1969 to date.
Latest edition shelved near the Olin Reference desk [Walk-In Reference]. Earlier editions shelved in Uris Library.
Now published annually, this title brings the Greenwood series (above) and Luther Mott's five-volume history (below) into the present with individual entries on magazine and newspaper titles recommended for U.S. libraries. Earlier editions act as a historical reference that updates the Greenwood Press titles and Mott. Over six-thousand entries in Magazines for Libraries include scholarly journal titles in addition to popular and trade magazines and a section on newspapers. - A History of American Magazines byCall Number: Olin Library Reference PN 4877 .M925 volumes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938-1968.
v. 1 1741-1850.
v. 2, 1850-1865.
v. 3, 1865-1885.
v. 4, 1885-1905.
v. 5, Sketches of 21 magazines, 1905-1930, and a cumulative index to all five volumes.
The original project that set the standard for future thumbnail histories of U.S. magazines such as the Greenwood series above. - The Oxford History of Popular Print CultureNew York: Oxford University Press, 2011-
Library has:
vol. 1. Cheap print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 / edited by Joad Raymond. (2011). Uris Library A.D. White Oversize Z 323 .O94 2011.
Also available online.
vol. 5. US popular print culture to 1860 / edited by Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray. 2019 (Print only. Uris Library A.D. White Oversize Z 473 .U876 2019)
vol. 6. US popular print culture 1860-1920 / edited by Christine Bold. (2012). Uris Library A.D. White Oversize Z 323 .O94 2011.
Also available online. - Newspapers: A Reference Guide byCall Number: Olin Library Reference Z 6951 .S35x 1987New York: Greenwood, 1987.
Though not a source of title-by-title essays, Schwarzlose is an excellent background reference on the history and development of newspapers in the U.S.