American Periodicals

Chronicling America, enhancing access to historic American newspapers  (Library of Congress) includes a searchable newspaper directory (1690-present) which can be limited by ethnicity and/or occupation (for the labor press).

The Boston Public Library has (had) a guide to digitized newspaper directories.

N.W. Ayer & Son's directory of newspapers and periodicals [title varies], 1880-1982.
LOCATION: Widener: AL 6.3 (1880-1881, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1919-1923, 1926-1929, 1931-1932, 1934-1935, 1938-1969, 1970-1982))

Includes circulation statistics. In a section (usually called Lists, Classifications or Subject Indexes) after the main geographical sequence are lists of agricultural, college, foreign language, Black (early called colored, then Negro), religious, fraternal (early called secret societies), trade and technical (including scientific and medical), and labor publications which carry advertising. The foregoing categories may have their own headings or may be included, with many others, within the Trade, Technical and Class section.

Full text online, 1869-1919

Continued by:
Gale directory of publications [title varies], 1983- .
LOCATION: Widener: Harvard Depository WID-LC PN4855.Z99 I47x
HOLLIS record for 1983-85, 1987-89
HOLLIS record for 1990-

Information on American periodical directories, some with subject indexing, is available in the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes.

General

The political orientation of several of these magazine, together with that of several others, is specified in the News and Opinion section of the biennial Magazines for Libraries (1969- ).

A history of American magazines, by Frank Luther Mott. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1938-1968, 5 v.
FindIt@Harvard
--V. 1. 1741-1850 -- v. 2. 1850-1865 -- v. 3. 1865-1885 -- v. 4. 1885-1905 -- v. 5. Sketches of 21 magazines, 1905-1930, with a cumulative index to the five volumes.

A history of American magazines, by Frank Luther Mott. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1938-1968, 5 v.
Location : Harvard University Archives Harvard Depository HU 137.644
Location : Lamont REFERENCE PN4877 .M63 1938
Location : Widener RR 655.22
Location : Widener AL 299.30.12
--V. 1. 1741-1850 -- v. 2. 1850-1865 -- v. 3. 1865-1885 -- v. 4. 1885-1905 -- v. 5. Sketches of 21 magazines, 1905-1930, with a cumulative index to the five volumes.

Business, Trade, Professional

Trade, industrial, and professional periodicals of the United States, ed. by Kathleen L. Endres. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, 467 p.
Baker Business | Stacks -- LC Books | HF5351 .T73 1994
Widener | WID-LC | HF5351.Z99 T73 1994x

Corporate magazines of the United States, ed. by Sam G. Riley. NY: Greenwood Press, 1992, 281 p.
Baker Business | Stacks -- LC Books | PN4888.E6 C67 1992
Widener | RR 655.37

Business journals of the United States, ed. by William Fisher. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991, 318 p.
Baker Business | Stacks -- LC Books | Z7164.C81 B978 1991
Widener | WID-LC | HF5001.Z99 B86 1991x

Ethnic

American Indian and Alaska native newspapers and periodicals, by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., and James W. Parins. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984-1986, 3 v.
Location : Tozzer Harvard Depository TOZ-LC E75 .L5
Location : Widener RR4781.31.5
V. 1: 1826-1924 – v. 2:1925-1970 – v. 3: 1971-1985
Indexed by chronology and location. Vol. 1 by tribal affiliation or emphasis.

Black journals of the United States, by Walter C. Daniel. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982, 432 p.
Lamont | REFERENCE | PN4882.5 .D36 1982
Schlesinger | Ref. | 051 D184b
Widener | RR 4781.41.37
Widener | WID-LC | PN4882.5 .D36 1982

Native American periodicals and newspapers, 1828-1982: bibliography, publishing record, and holdings. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
LOCATION: Tozzer: REF E 77.Z99 D3 1984
LOCATION: Widener: WID-LC E77.Z99 D36 x, 1984
--Indexed by subject, editor, publisher, location, catchword/subtitle, chronology.

Literary

American literary magazines: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ed. by Edward E. Chielens. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986, 503 p.
Child Memorial | Ch M 2700
Widener | RR 655.23.5

American literary magazines: the twentieth century, ed. by Edward E. Chielens. NY: Greenwood Press, 1992, 474 p.
Widener | RR 655.23

British literary magazines, ed. by Alvin Sullivan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983-1986. 4 v.
Widener | RR 655.327

Mystery, detective, and espionage magazines, by Michael L. Cook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983, 795 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN3448.D4 C56 1983

Pulp magazine holdings directory : library collections in North America and Europe, by Jess Nevins. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2007, 235 p.
HOLLIS Record

Science fiction, fantasy, and weird fiction magazines, ed. by Marshall B. Tymn and Mike Ashley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985, 970 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN3433 .T9 1985

Political

The conservative press in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century America, ed. by Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999, 401 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4888.C598 C66 1999

The conservative press in twentieth-century America, ed. by Ronald Lora and William Henry Longton. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999, 729 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4888.C598 C664 1999

Popular

American mass-market magazines, ed. by Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie. NY: Greenwood Press, 1990, 611 p.
Widener | RR655.25

Consumer magazines of the British Isles, ed. by Sam G. Riley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, 300 p.
Widener | RR655.316.5

Regional

Index to city and regional magazines of the United States, by Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. NY: Greenwood Press, 1989, 130 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4877.Z99 R55 1989x

Index to Southern periodicals, by Sam G. Riley. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986. 459 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4893.Z99 R54 x, 1986

Magazines of the American South, by Sam G. Riley. NY: Greenwood Press, 1986, 346 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4893 .R54 1986

Regional interest magazines of the United States, ed. by Sam G. Riley and Gary W. Selnow. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991, 418 p.
Widener | RR655.25.7

Religious

History and annotated bibliography of American religious periodicals and newspapers established from 1730 through 1830, by Gaylord P. Albaugh. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1994. 2 v.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | PN4888.R4 A43 1994
Widener | WID-LC | PN4888.R4 A43 1994
--With microfilm and library holdings, chronological and geographic lists and list by area of major religious interest.

Popular religious magazines of the United States, ed. by P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, 595 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4888.R4 P67 1995x

Religious periodicals of the United States: academic and scholarly journals, ed. by Charles H. Lippy. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986, 607 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | PN4888.R4 L5 1986

Women

Sources on the history of women's magazines, 1792-1960: an annotated bibliography, by Mary Ellen Zuckerman. NY: Greenwood Press, 1991, 297 p.
Widener | RR 4761.11.4
Widener | RR 681.41
Schlesinger | Ref. | 016.05 Z94s

Women's periodicals and newspapers from the 18th century to 1981: a union list of the holdings of Madison, Wisconsin, libraries, by Maureen E. Hady et al. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982, 376 p.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | Z7965 .H3 1982
Schlesinger | Ref. | 050 D18w
Widener | RR4761.11.20

Women's periodicals in the United States: consumer magazines, ed. by Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, 509 p.
Schlesinger | Ref. | 051 E56w
Widener | RR 655.25.5

Women's periodicals in the United States: social and political issues, ed. by Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L. Lueck. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, 529 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4879 .W614 1996

Other

American humor magazines and comic periodicals, ed. by David E.E. Sloane. NY: Greenwood Press, 1987, 648 p.
Widener | WID-LC | PN4880 .A46 1987 Lost

International film, radio, and television journals, ed. by Anthony Slide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985, 428 p.
Theatre Collection | TS 570. 1.1
Widener | WID-LC | PN1993.Z99 I56 x, 1985

International music journals, ed. by Linda M. Fidler and Richard S. James. NY: Greenwood Press, 1990, 544 p.
Loeb Music | Aldrich Room | ML128p.24 I6 1990

Military periodicals: United States and selected international journals and newspapers, ed. by Michael E. Unsworth. NY: Greenwood Press, 1990, 404 p.
Widener | WID-LC | U104.Z99 U57 1990x

Children's periodicals of the United States, ed. by R. Gordon Kelly. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984, 591 p.
Gutman Education | PN4878 .K39 1984