Magazine History: A Collector's Blog

I started collecting magazines thirty seven years ago, just after I entered medical school in Chicago. In those days it was fun to go from c...

President Obama is directly responsible for this post, by virtue of the comments he made yesterday iat the National Press Club about the imp...

Over the years I have been exceedingly fortunate to be able to put together a complete run, with all the engravings and maps, of Thomas Pain...

The most interesting and important American magazine of the second decade of the 19th century was The Analectic .(as was Joseph Dennie's...

My daughter, Whitney, is visiting from St. Louis and reminded me that today is Earth Day. To commemorate this event, we looked for an approp...

Fame and Fortune Magazine: Adventures in Making Money 1929 "The Shadow of Wall Street" by Frank S Lawton This pulp from the time o...

I just received this rare first issue pulp magazine that I recently won on an eBay auction. It is the 841st first issue pulp in my collectio...

Since the economic side of collecting seems to garner great interest among my readers, I thought I'd tell you of a purchase I made toda...

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody is another of the grossly underappreciated women in American History. I came to know her by her connections with Am...

Having just acquired an extremely important and rare periodical that contains twelve early Mark Twain appearances, it is an excellent time t...