BCA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hugh Hefner, The Saturday Evening Post, Lincoln Steffens
16 Mar 2017
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First magazines appeared in 17th century france in the form of bookseller catalogues and notices that book publishers inserted in newspapers. The word magazine derives from french term megasin, meaning storehouse -- the earliest magazines were storehouses of writing and reports taken mostly from newspapers. Today, the word magazine broadly refers to collection of articles, stories and advertisements appearing in no daily periodicals that are published in the smaller tabloid style rather than the larger broadsheet newspaper style. The first two, american magazine and general magazine and historical chronicle appeared in philadelphia in 1741, but stopped after only a few publications. Others followed in the 1740"s and by 1776, about 100 colonial magazines had appeared and disappeared. Most historians consider the army magazines as dull and uninspired. Began in 1821 by two philadelphia printers. Became the longest running magazine in us history. Early post included a few original essays, but also borrowed pieces from other sources.
