From Wikipedia;The American Magazine was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie. It succeeded Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (1876–1904), Leslie's Monthly Magazine (1904–1905), Leslie's Magazine (1905) and the American Illustrated Magazine (1905–1906).[1] The magazine was published through August 1956.History[edit]Under the magazine's original title, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, it had begun to be published in 1876 and was renamed Leslie's Monthly Magazine in 1904, and then was renamed again as Leslie's Magazine in 1905.[2] From September 1905, through May 1906, it was entitled the American Illustrated Magazine; then subsequently shortened as The American Magazine until publication ceased in 1956. It kept continuous volume numbering throughout its history.[2]In June 1906, muckraking journalists Ray Stannard Baker, Lincoln Steffens and Ida M. Tarbell left McClure's to help create The American Magazine. An "Editorial Announcement" published in 1907 led with Tarbell's coverage of tariff policy.[3] Baker contributed articles using the pseudonym David Grayson. Under John Sanborn Phillips, who served as editor until 1915, the monthly magazine departed somewhat from the muckraking style and focused on human interest stories, social issues and fiction. Initially published by his Phillips Publishing Company of Springfield, Ohio, it later was taken over by Crowell Publishing Company in 1911,[4] and later merged with Collier's. The American Magazine was published by Crowell-Collier until it folded in 1956.[5]Editors[edit]With the changes in 1915, John M. Siddall (1915–23) was appointed as editor of the periodical, which expanded its market considerably by concentrating on a female readership. The cover of the September 1917 issue announced: "This Magazine's Circulation Has Doubled in 20 Months." The September 1922 cover stated circulation had reached 1.8 million.Merle Crowell served as editor of The American Magazine from 1923 until 1929 when Sumner Blossom took over. Blossom, who had been editor of Popular Science, was there for the last 27 years of the magazine's existence. Fictional serials and short stories were a popular feature, and the magazine published several winners of the O. Henry Awards. High-profile writers contributed articles on a variety of topics.During his editorship, Blossom adopted the policy of hiding the author's name on all works of fiction during the selection process as a way to encourage new fiction writers. The magazine's staff learned the author's identity only once they accepted or rejected a manuscript.The last issue of The American Magazine was displayed on newsstands in August 1956.[6]Stories[edit]In 1934, The American Magazine ran a story called "Uncle Sam Grows Younger" that praised Alger Hiss: "In his twenties, he is one of the men chiefly responsible for the plan to buy $650,000,000 worth of commodities to feed the unemployed. He has too much spirit for his bodily strength and is in danger of working himself to death."[7]Notable contributors[edit]Bess Streeter AldrichSherwood AndersonHarry J. AnslingerJ. Ogden ArmourIrving BachellerJohn BarrymoreNeith BoyceFrances Hodgson BurnettEllis Parker ButlerLeslie CharterisAgatha ChristieLincoln Ross ColcordArthur Conan DoyleCourtney Ryley CooperJane CowlWill DurantAmelia EarhartEdna FerberLucine FinchF. Scott FitzgeraldHenry FordGraham GreeneZane GreyDashiell HammettEric HatchSyd HoffKin HubbardClarence Budington KellandHarry KempJack LaitMunro LeafWalter LippmannWilliam J. LockeJohn A. MorosoAlbert Jay NockKathleen NorrisVance PackardWilliam Dudley PelleyGeneral John J. PershingChanning PollockOlive Higgins ProutyMary Roberts RinehartGrantland RiceFranklin D. RooseveltUpton SinclairRex StoutThomas Joseph SugrueBooth TarkingtonFrederick Winslow TaylorS. S. Van DineH. G. WellsPaul R. WilliamsPeter Dale WimbrowP. G. WodehouseHarold Bell WrightReferences[edit]^ "The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, January 11, 1907, Image 5". January 11, 1907.^ Jump up to:a b Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania^ "Editorial Announcement" . The American Magazine. 64. 1907.^ "ELEVATED AGENTS ROBBED.; Lone Highwayman Holds Up Two Station -- Gets All Receipts In one". The New York Times. February 2, 1911. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 8, 2018.^ David E. Sumner (2010). The Magazine Century: American Magazines Since 1900. Peter Lang. p. 124. ISBN 978-1-4331-0493-0. Retrieved September 20, 2015.^ "Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved December 4, 2016.^ Hiss, Tony (1999). The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir. Alfred E. Knopf. p. 16 ("Prossy"), 35 (courtship), 36 ("Hill"), 37 (Quakerisms, Roberta Murray Fansler), 89 (Buttenweiser, Bernard), 132–134 (clerks), 142 (American Magazine). ISBN 9780375401275.External links[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to The American Magazine."The FictionMags Index: Magazines, Listed by Title". philsp.com. Phil Stephensen-Payne. 2008. Archived from the original on June 15, 2008.The American Magazine archive at Hathitrust"Entries for the 'American' Category". magawiki. Cliff Aliperti. 2009. Archived from the original on October 26, 2009.The American MagazineCountry: USTotal Issues: 338+18+9+603=968Always open to popular fiction, it adopted an unusual policy in the 1930s: "To encourage new fiction writers and to discourage his staff from being blinded by famous names editor Sumner Blossom ordered mailroom clerks to mask the author's name on all unsolicited pieces of fiction. The staff learned the author's identity only after it had decided to accept or reject a manuscript" (Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century). Authors included Ellis Parker Butler, Clarence Budington Kelland, Edison Marshall, S.S. Van Dine, Zane Grey, Dashiell Hammett, Rex Stout, Leslie Charteris and Graham Greene ("The Third Man," Mar. 1949).Issues & Index Sources  Jan-1876 – Feb-1904, as Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly:FictionMags Index  Mar-1904 – Aug-1905, as Leslie's Monthly Magazine:FictionMags Index  Sep-1905 – May-1906, as American Illustrated Magazine:FictionMags Index  Jun-1906 – Aug-1956, as The American Magazine:FictionMags IndexPublishers  Jan-1876 – Jul-1878: Frank Leslie  Aug-1878 – Jul-1905: Frank Leslie Publishing  Aug-1905 – May-1906: Colver Publishing  Jun-1906 – 1911: John S. Phillips  1911 – 1934: Crowell  1934 – 1956: Crowell-CollierEditors  1876 – 1880: Frank Leslie  1880 – 1899: Mrs Frank Leslie  1899 – May-1906: Ellery Sedgwick  Jun-1906 – 1915: John S. Phillips  1915 – 1923: John M. Siddall  1923 – 1929: Merle Crowell  1929 – 1956: Sumner BlossomFormats  standard until 1913, then big slickPrices  $2.50 at outset, radically redesigned in 1898 as a 10c monthlyFrequency  monthlyRelated Sites  WikipediaOnline Sources  Online Books  Online Books