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American Magazines
You Gotta Know These Magazines from American History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The most popular American magazine during the Civil War, known for publishing the widely circulated photograph of the whipped slave Gordon | Harper’s Weekly |
| The political editor of Harper's Weekly who ran Thomas Nast's cartoons of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall machine | George William Curtis |
| The magazine founded in Boston as an abolitionist periodical by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emerson, and others | The Atlantic |
| The periodical that published Julia Ward Howe’s “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1862 and MLK Jr.'s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in 1963 | The Atlantic |
| The magazine that has only ever endorsed three presidential candidates: Lincoln, Johnson, and Hillary Clinton | The Atlantic |
| The humor and satire magazine founded by Joseph Keppler, known for anti-Catholic and anti-robber baron cartoons | Puck |
| The magazine founded explicitly to publish "muckraking" investigative journalism | McClure’s Magazine |
| The magazine that ran Ida Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company and Lincoln Steffens’s Tweed Days in St. Louis | McClure’s Magazine |
| The magazine whose angle shifted dramatically in 1965 when Helen Gurley Brown became editor, focusing on fashion and romantic relationships | Cosmopolitan |
| The U.S.’s first weekly newsmagazine, founded by Henry Luce, known for designating the "Person of the Year" | Time |
| The founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated | Henry Luce |
| The “Person of the Year” recipients considered controversial picks, chosen in 1938, 1939, and 1942 | Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin |
| The conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955 to define and promote right-wing thought | National Review |
| The magazine known for the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, where Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas first appeared | Rolling Stone |
| The pioneering feminist magazine founded by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes | Ms. |