The second edition of The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900 offers the freshest and most up-to-date history of American magazines through 2020. It includes chapters telling the stories of new magazine launches in each decade since 1900. These chapters offer a behind-the-scenes look at America’s best-known magazines and publishers and how they got started. It also includes this key information not included in the first edition:


• Updated circulation data for major magazines


• Major magazine closings and new launches


• Ownership changes at major publishing companies


• Histories of several magazines not in the 1st edition


• The internet’s effect on magazine publishing


• Biographies of colorful and controversial editors


• New details about the history of Black-owned magazines


• The pandemic’s effect on magazine publishing


• Recent interviews with magazine editors and publishers


• The surprising rebound of print magazines

Series edited by: Kimberly Wilmot Voss