19th-century "story papers" gave boys stories they liked, while also encouraging readers to contribute their own material and tell their own stories.

Back in the 1920s and ‘30s, the magazine Women’s Home Companion tried explicitly appealing to its readers to take the ads seriously.

In nineteenth-century American women's magazines, Native American women were depicted as attractive, desirable, and pious.

With 90 years of New Yorker cartoons, readers learn much about changing trends in political and social history, all while celebrating through laughter.

True Crime is having a renaissance with popular TV series and podcasts. But the history of the genre dates back much further.

Salvador Dail injected Surrealism into fashion magazines in the 1930s and 1940s, to lasting influence.