The library has long runs of many popular magazines, which we retain for historical research. The list below includes a variety of magazines, including consumer magazines, opinion magazines, and news magazines.
- Early and mid-twentieth-century popular magazines
Most are in paper form or on microfilm.
- Late twentieth-century magazines (1980-1999)
If you are looking for magazine articles from the early 1980s to the present, you should also search the resources listed on indexes to 20th century magazines page; the databases listed there include many other magazines.
Do you need to identify articles in these magazines? See indexes to 20th century popular magazines, especially Readers' Guide Abstracts.
To find the current location of microfilm or microfiche for one of the magazines listed below, search the library catalog.
Unless otherwise indicated, the library has complete runs of the following magazines, and the magazines are English-language.
- America
Years of publication: 1909 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Library has: 1909 to present but lacks vols. 30-36, 41, 45-46, 54-55, 59, 64, 70, 83-84
Location: Bound Periodicals
- American Magazine
Years of publication: 1906-1956
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- American Mercury
Years of publication: 1924-1980
Place of publication: New York; Torrance, CA
Format: paper
Place of publication: Bound Periodicals
- American Opinion
See The New American
- American Spectator
Years of publication: 1977 to present
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Format: microfilm
Library has: 1980 to present
- Atlantic Monthly and The Atlantic
Years of publication: 1857 to present
Place of publication: Boston
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1857 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1857-1877
- Business Week
Years of publication: 1929 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Catholic World
Years of publication: 1865 to present
Place of publication: Paramus, NJ; Mahwah, NJ
Format: paper
Library has: 1937-1996
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The Christian Century
Years of publication: 1884 to present
Place of publication: Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1926 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm:
Library has: 1900-1925
- Christianity Today
Years of publication: 1956 to present
Place of publication: Carol Stream, IL
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Commentary
Years of publication: 1945 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1956 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1945-1956
- Commonweal
Years of publication: 1924 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Library has: 1948 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Consumer Reports
Years of publication: 1942 to present
Place of publication: Mt. Vernon, NY
Format: paper
Library has: 1957 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Coronet
Years of publication: 1936-1961
Place of publication: Chicago
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The Crisis
Years of publication: 1910 to present
Place of publication: New York; Baltimore
Format:
- Paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
Library has: 1910 to present (lacks vols. 68, 69, 71-75)
- Microfilm
Library has: 1959-1975
- Dissent
Years of publication: 1954 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Ebony
Years of publication: 1945 to present
Place of publication: Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1964 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1945-1964
- The Economist
Years of publication: 1843 to present
Place of publication: London
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 5 July 1952 - 1979
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: June 1980 to present
- Esquire
Years of publication: 1933 to present
Place of publication: Chicago; New York
Format: paper
Library has: 1954-1955, 1961 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
Note: an author index for the years 1933-1973 is shelved with the print volumes in Bound Periodicals.
- L'Express
Years of publication: 1953 to present
Place of publication: Paris
Language: French
Format: microfilm
Library has: 1966 to present
- Fortune
Years of publication: 1930 to present
Place of publication: Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1930-1992
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm:
Library has: 1930 to present
- L'illustration: journal universel
Years of publication: 1843-1944
Place of publication: Paris
Language: French
Format: paper
Library has: 1915-1918
- Interview
Years of publication: 1977 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: microfilm
Library has: 1985 to present
- Jet
Years of publication: 1951 to present
Place of publication: Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1985 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1968-1985
- Ladies' Home Journal
Years of publication: 1883 to present
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Format: microfilm
Library has: 1884-1980 (lacks vol. 24, no. 12)
- Life
Years of publication: 1936-1972, 1978-2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1936-1972, 1978-2000
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1936-1972
- Online
Google Books: 1936-1972
- Look
Years of publication: 1937-1971, 1979
Place of publication: Des Moines, IA; New York
Format: microfilm
- Maclean's
Years of publication: 1911 to present
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1981 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1975-1980
- Money
Years of publication: 1972 to present
Place of publication: Chicago
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Mother Jones
Years of publication: 1976 to present
Place of publication: San Francisco
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Ms.
Years of publication: 1972 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The Nation
Years of publication: 1865 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1880 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1865-1911
- National Geographic
Years of publication: 1888 to present
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- National Review
Years of publication: 1955 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Library has: 1955 to present (lacks vol. 18)
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The New American and American Opinion
Years of publication:
- American Opinion: 1958-1985
- The New American: 1985 to present
Place of publication: Belmont, MA
Format: paper
Library has: 1962 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The New Republic
Years of publication: 1914 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1916 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1914-1916
- The New Statesman
Years of publication: 1931 to present
Place of publication: London
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1958 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1931-1957
- New York
Years of publication: 1968 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The New Yorker
Years of publication: 1925 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1939 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1925-1940
Note: indexes to vols. 1-50 (1925-1975) are shelved with the print volumes in Bound Periodicals.
- Newsweek
Years of publication: 1933 to present
Place of publication: Los Angeles; New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1936 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1933 to present
- Paris-Match
Years of publication 1949 to present
Place of publication: Paris
Language: French
Format: paper
Library has: 1977 to present
- People
Years of publication: 1974 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: microfiche
Library has: 1975 to present
- Popular Mechanics
Years of publication: 1902 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1976 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1902-1975
- The Progressive
Years of publication: 1929 to present
Place of publication: Madison, WI
Format: paper
Library has: 1957 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Psychology Today
Years of publication: 1967 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
- Reader's Digest
Years of publication: 1922 to present
Place of publication: Pleasantville, NY
Format: paper
Library has: 1923 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Rolling Stone
Years of publication: 1967 to present
Place of publication: San Francisco
Format: microfilm
- Saturday Evening Post
Years of publication: 1839 to present
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1932 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1920-1931
- Saturday Review of Literature and Saturday Review
Years of publication:
- 1924-1951 (Saturday Review of Literature)
- 1952-1973 (Saturday Review)
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Scientific American
Years of publication: 1845 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1867 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1859-2007
- Online
Library has: 1993 to present
Includes color pdf versions of articles.
- Seventeen
Years of publication: 1944 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Library has: 2006 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Smithsonian
Years of publication: 1970 to present
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Southern Living
Years of publication: 1966 to present
Place of publication: Birmingham, AL
Format: paper
Location: Bound Periodicals
- The Spectator
Years of publication: 1828 to present
Place of publication: London
Format: paper
Library has: 1965 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Der Spiegel
Years of publication: 1947 to present
Place of publication: Hamburg, Germany
Language: German
Format: microfilm
Library has: 1962 to present
- Sports Illustrated
Years of publication: 1954 to present
Place of publication: Los Angeles; Chicago
Format: microfilm
- Tikkun
Years of publication: 1986 to present
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Format: paper
Library has: 1992 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Time
Years of publication: 1923 to present
Place of publication: New York; Chicago
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1924 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfiche
Library has: 1923 to present
- U.S. News & World Report
Years of publication: 1948 to present
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Format:
- Paper
Library has: 1950 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
- Microfilm
Library has: 1948 to present
- Vogue
Years of publication: 1892 to present
Place of publication: New York
Format: paper
Library has: 2006 to present
Location: Bound Periodicals
