Sex and Empire: Newspapers, Magazines and Genres

-Atlanta Daily World
-Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
-Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
-Cleveland Call and Post
-Los Angeles Sentinel‎
-Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)‎
-New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)‎
-Norfolk Journal and Guide
-Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)‎

Provides access to more than 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers and magazines.

Better Homes and Gardens
Chatelaine
Cosmopolitan
Essence
Good Housekeeping
Ladies Home Journal
Parents
Redbook
Seventeen
Town & Country
Women's Day

Includes long runs of significant LGBT publications from the U.S. and England such as The Advocate.

Includes more than 100 journals, magazines, newsletters, special reports, unpublished papers and conference proceedings devoted to gender and women's issues.

Hundreds of issues of underground/radical feminist and LGBT publications mainly from the 60s and 70s.

Includes: Billboard (1907-1993), Variety (1940-2000)
And many similar magazines covering theater, film and television.

Links to dozens of mainstream and ethnic newspapers: New York Times, Chicago Defender, Washington Post, etc.

Online access to The New Yorker, Life, National Geographic, etc.

The magazine was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to extensive fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like.

Partial run.

First 'homophile' magazine in U.S.

"The longest surviving feminist newspaper in the United States."

Short stories are important sources for social and cultural history. See especially: Mirror for the nation : an annotated bibliography of American social fiction, 1901-1950

Includes Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914