The Institution publishes "Smithsonian" magazine monthly and "Air & Space" magazine bimonthly. "Smithsonian" was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of "Life" magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded "Air & Space." The Smithsonian Institute Press publishes books.
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The Institution publishes "Smithsonian" magazine monthly and "Air & Space" magazine bimonthly. "Smithsonian" was the result of Secretary of the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley asking the retired editor of "Life" magazine Edward K. Thompson to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested". Another Secretary of the Smithsonian, Walter Boyne, founded "Air & Space." The Smithsonian Institute Press publishes books.
Smithsonian Institution | Publications
The history of "Smithsonian" began when Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of "Life" magazine, was asked by the then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian [Institution] is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested." Thompson would later recall that his philosophy for the new magazine was that it "would stir curiosity in already receptive minds. It would deal with history as it is relevant to the present. It would present art, since true art is never dated, in the richest possible reproduction. It would peer into the future via coverage of social progress and of science and technology.
Smithsonian (magazine) | History
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
Smithsonian (magazine) | Introduction
Technical matters would be digested and made intelligible by skilled writers who would stimulate readers to reach upward while not turning them off with jargon. We would find the best writers and the best photographers—not unlike the best of the old "Life"." In 1973, the magazine turned a profit for the first time. By 1974, circulation had nearly quadrupled, to 635,000, and it reached the one million milestone in 1975—one of the most successful launches of its time. In 1980, Thompson was replaced by Don Moser, who had also worked at "Life", and circulation reached upwards of two million, in turn, by Carey Winfrey upon his retirement in 2001.
Smithsonian (magazine) | History
The magazine reprinted significant historical documents of American history and also some original work. In its first edition, "The American Museum" republished Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". The proposed Constitution of the United States was first published in the magazine. Contributors to the magazine included John Adams, Timothy Dwight IV, Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Hopkinson, David Humphreys, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, John Trumbull, George Washington and Noah Webster.
The American Museum (magazine) | Introduction
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge". In 1862 octavo-sized papers called "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections" were added, followed by the monographic "Bulletin of the United States National Museum" in 1875, and the compiled "Proceedings of the United States National Museum" in 1878. "Annual Reports" of Smithsonian Institution administrative and scholarly achievements, and accessions to the collections, began issuing in 1881, with accession and donor information being split off in 1993 as the "Annals of the Smithsonian Institution". The "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge" ceased publication in 1916, followed by the cessation of the "Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections" in 1968, and the "Bulletin of the United States National Museum" in 1971.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | History
The American Museum (also known as, The American Museum; or Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces &c. Prose and Poetical and The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine) was a monthly American literary magazine published by Mathew Carey in the late-18th century. "The American Museum" "shares with the "Columbian Magazine" the honor of being the first successful American magazine." Carey established the magazine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, using $400 that was given to him by Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Carey published a total of 72 issues (twelve volumes) of the magazine—one each month from January 1787 to December 1792.
The American Museum (magazine) | Introduction
Next he "invented", to use his word, "Smithsonian" magazine. "To those all-out converts to computerized journalism who declaim that 'print is dead,' I say, 'Not so fast.'" are his opening words of his book: "A love Affair with Life & Smithsonian" published by the University of Missouri Press in October 1995. His other 'invention' was the magazine "Impact" which he created for the Army Air Forces during his time out during World War II; "LIFE", he would say, was Henry Luce's invention.
Edward Kramer Thompson | "Smithsonian"
Notable past and current contributors to "Smithsonian" have included:
Smithsonian (magazine) | Contributors
Nevertheless, the magazine was short lived. Only two volumes of the magazine were published and it ceased to exist after 1839.
Nathan C. Brooks | "The American Museum"
Founded in 1900 by the American Museum of Natural History, "Natural History" was first titled The American Museum Journal. In 2002, the magazine was purchased from the Museum by a new company, headed at the time by Charles Harris. As of 2013 the magazine is published in North Carolina by Howard Richman. There are 10 issues published annually. Since its founding, "Natural History" has chronicled the major expeditions and research findings by curators at the American Museum of Natural History and at other natural history museums and science centers. Stephen Jay Gould's column, "This View of Life," was a regular feature of the magazine from 1974 until he retired the column in 2001.
Natural History (magazine) | History
In their place, the Smithsonian Institution began publication of a variety of different series focused on specific areas of scientific or societal study.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | History
Congress." In 1859, Congress transferred the library's public document distribution activities to the Department of the Interior and its international book exchange program to the Department of State. During the 1850s, Smithsonian Institution librarian Charles Coffin Jewett aggressively tried to make the Smithsonian into the United States' national library. His efforts were blocked by Smithsonian secretary Joseph Henry, who advocated a focus on scientific research and publication. To reinforce his intentions for the Smithsonian, Henry established laboratories, developed a robust physical sciences library and started the "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge", the first of many publications intended to disseminate research results.
Library of Congress | 1851–1865: Weakening
In addition to scholarly articles, and answers to readers' queries it also included original documents such as the letters of George Washington, and diary extracts from various Revolutionary War figures. In 1901 a continuation using the shorter title was begun in Mount Vernon, NY with the middle of the 30th volume. It lasted through the 46th volume in 1917.
The Magazine of American History | Introduction
Thus the partnerspublisher Gerard Piel, editor Dennis Flanagan, and general manager Donald H. Miller, Jr.essentially created a new magazine. Miller retired in 1979, Flanagan and Piel in 1984, when Gerard Piel's son Jonathan became president and editor; circulation had grown fifteen-fold since 1948. In 1986, it was sold to the Holtzbrinck group of Germany, which has owned it since.
Scientific American | History
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Henry Tracey Coxwell | In popular culture
The Smithsonian Institution is an alternate history novel by Gore Vidal, first published in 1998. The novel is a fictional account of the adventures of "T." as he helps a group of scientists in the basement of the Smithsonian create the neutron bomb, and encounters historical figures such as President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mrs. Grover Cleveland.
The Smithsonian Institution (novel) | Introduction
The Columbian Magazine (also known as the Columbian Magazine or Monthly Miscellany) was a monthly American literary magazine established by Mathew Carey, Charles Cist, William Spotswood, Thomas Seddon, and James Trenchard. It was published in Philadelphia from 1786 to 1792. Carey left the magazine in 1787 to start "The American Museum". Subsequent publishers were Spotswood (1787–1788), Trenchard (1789–1790), and William Young (1790–1792).
Columbian Magazine | Introduction
The Magazine of American History was established in January 1877 by Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond and John Austin Stevens with the long title "The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries". It was issued monthly. The first seven volumes were published by the A. S. Barnes Company of New York and Chicago, volumes 8 through 28 by the Historical Publication Co., and, after Mrs. Lamb's death, the final two volumes of the initial series by the Magazine of American History Company. It lasted into its 30th volume; the last of the three numbers in that volume was issued in September 1893.
The Magazine of American History | Introduction
His first cataloging experience took place as a Brown student while helping to catalog the library of the Philermenian Literary Society. In 1837, he entered Andover Theological Seminary, where he helped catalog the Andover Theological Seminary Library. In 1841, he became the librarian of Brown University. He extensively rearranged that library, and created a catalog in two parts; an alphabetical descriptive catalog of the items in the library, and an alphabetical Index of Subjects. After its completion in 1843, he embarked on a two-year campaign of book purchasing and study in Europe. He became Librarian and Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1848, and began the task of building the Smithsonian's library by soliciting catalogs from prominent libraries and publishing a survey of U.S.
Charles Coffin Jewett | Career
In 1838, Brooks purchased Summer Lincoln Fairfield's "The North American Quarterly" and moved the publication from Philadelphia to Baltimore. Brooks partnered with Dr. Joseph E. Snodgrass, a Baltimore physician, to transform the publication into "The American Museum of Science, Literature and the Arts". The magazine mainly functioned as a literary publication, featuring literary criticism as well as poetry and short stories. Brooks, who was a friend of the famed poet Edgar Allan Poe, published several of Poe's works in "The American Museum". Poe's "Ligeia", "A Predicament" (published as "The Scythe of Time"), and "The Haunted Palace" were all originally published in Brooks' magazine.
Nathan C. Brooks | "The American Museum"
He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964 to 1984. He set out to reinvigorate and expand the Smithsonian, building new museums, including the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, now the Anacostia Community Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Renwick Gallery, National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of African Art, Enid A. Haupt Garden, the underground quadrangle complex known as the S. Dillon Ripley Center, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. In 1967, he helped found the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and in 1970, he helped found "Smithsonian" magazine. He believed that 75% to 80% of then-living animal species would become extinct in the next 25 years.
Sidney Dillon Ripley | Smithsonian Institution
Theodore Reed. From 1956 until her retirement in 1971, Mann was zoo editor, responsible for writing the "Annual Report" and other publications for the National Zoological Park.
Lucile Quarry Mann | Smithsonian years
A collection of her papers is held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
Jennett Lam | Introduction
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Conservation and restoration at the Smithsonian Institution | Conservation Project/Publication
Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine is a bimonthly magazine put out by the National Air and Space Museum based in Washington, D.C., United States. Its first publishing was in April 1986. Because the museum is a part of the Smithsonian Institution, which puts out its own "Smithsonian" magazine, the magazine's full title is "Air & Space/Smithsonian". Therefore, the word "Smithsonian" appears on the cover, just beneath "AIR&SPACE", in a much smaller size. Articles in the magazine involve topics related to aviation, space travel, and space-related physics.
Air &amp; Space/Smithsonian | Introduction
Another important editor to the magazine was Joel Barlow. At first the periodical had no subscribers and depended on the society's members. It started as a bi-monthly publication and ran this way for a year. It then switched to being published monthly beginning with Volume 2 and ended after eleven issues of that volume (July 4, 1810 – June 19, 1811), m. (July 1811May 1812.) v.1, no.1-24; v.2, no. 1-11. July 4, 1810-May 1812.
Agricultural Museum (periodical) | History
magazine before landing at "Smithsonian" in 2012. Among his most controversial magazine features are essays on Neanderthals; Hannibal, George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees' line of succession; the hijinks of onetime Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling; and a groundbreaking "S.I." cover story with NBA player Jason Collins in which Collins became the first active male in one of the four major North American team sports to announce he was gay.
Franz Lidz | Career
The scientific agricultural magazine was an octavo consisting of 32 pages. It was the first periodical devoted strictly to agriculture. It was published by the Columbian Agricultural Society. The publisher was W. A. Rind of Georgetown, Washington, D.C. The editor was a Reverend David Wiley who was a minister that moved to Georgetown in 1800. Rev. Wiley was in charge of the Columbian Agricultural Society and was its secretary and teacher. The society was established for the purpose of inspiring local agriculture manufactures. The magazine was a branch of the society that discouraged imported products. Wiley was Georgetown's postmaster, superintendent of the turnpike, merchant, miller, and the major.
Agricultural Museum (periodical) | History
The Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series is a collection of serial periodical publications produced by the Smithsonian Institution, detailing advances in various scientific and societal fields to which the Smithsonian Institution has made contributions.
Smithsonian Contributions and Studies Series | Introduction
The website's quality was poor, and the center did not have a public affairs manager, a programs director, adequate human resources support, or cohesive mission statement.
Smithsonian Institution | History
Arens was president of the Society of Industrial Designers 1949–1950, and a member of the United States delegation to the International Trade Fair, held in Liege, Belgium, in 1955. Four issues of "Playboy: a portfolio of art and satire", are in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, including the first issue published in January 1919 and the last issue published in July 1924. All nine issues are in the Syracuse University Library. Arens' books, correspondence, articles and other papers are in the Syracuse University Library's Special Collections. This collection contains many documents, photographs and slides relating to his industrial design and fine printing careers.
Egmont Arens | Legacy
Edward Kramer Thompson (January 15, 1907 – October 8, 1996) was an American writer and editor. He was the editor of "LIFE" from its early days as a weekly and was the founding editor of "Smithsonian Magazine".
Edward Kramer Thompson | Introduction
The Smithsonian Affiliations program was established in 1996 by Smithsonian Secretary I. Michael Heyman with the approval of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, in response to several challenges the Institution faced at the time: a decrease in federal funding, limited storage space for expanding collections, and the need to make the Institution more reflective of the nation without operating additional museums outside of Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Affiliations | History
Nathan Reingold, the editor of the Joseph Henry Papers Project, served as Acting Archivist from 1969 to 1970. In January 1970, Richard H. Lytle began a tenure as Archivist which included the 1973 establishment of an oral history program, and the 1976 relocation of the Archives to the Arts and Industries Building. Most of the Smithsonian museums increased acquisitions and conducted surveys during this period; new guides were issued 1971 and 1978. In 1981, William A. Deiss became Acting Archivist, upon Lytle's departure to head up the Smithsonian's computer services. 1983 saw yet another new guide to the expanding repositories, and the appointment of William W.
Smithsonian Institution Archives | History
Charles Allen Munn (1859–1924), was an American editor and publisher, who oversaw "Scientific American" after the editorship of his father, Orson Desaix Munn. His nephew Orson Desaix Munn II succeeded him as editor of the magazine. He was also a patron of the arts, and after his death bequeathed his collection of early American paintings, prints, and silver to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Charles Allen Munn | Introduction
The group was defeated in its efforts, as other groups wanted scientists, rather than political leaders, guiding the fortunes of what would become the Smithsonian Institution.
Joel Roberts Poinsett | Promotion of American Arts
Finally, on August 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed the legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution as a trust instrumentality of the United States, to be administered by a Board of Regents and a secretary of the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian Institution | Founding
Housed in the Patent Office Building, these were the precursor to the Smithsonian Institution collection. The cabinet was managed by a group of scientists in 1840 and others to secure control of the Smithson bequest and create a National Museum in Washington.
National Institute for the Promotion of Science | Introduction
Partly due to Adams's efforts, Congress voted to establish the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. A nonpolitical board of regents was established to lead the institution, which included a museum, art gallery, library, and laboratory.
John Quincy Adams | Smithsonian Institution
Illustrated with costly copperplate engravings, its subscribers included George Washington, John Adams, John Jay, and Richard Varick.
The New-York Magazine | Introduction
The British scientist James Smithson (1765–1829) left most of his wealth to his nephew Henry James Hungerford. When Hungerford died childless in 1835, the estate passed "to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men", in accordance with Smithson's will. Congress officially accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1, 1836. The American diplomat Richard Rush was dispatched to England by President Andrew Jackson to collect the bequest.
Smithsonian Institution | Founding
Franklin Richard Bruns Jr. (1912–1979) of Maryland, was a student of philately and served it in numerous ways, including writing a syndicated stamp collector newspaper column and serving as curator at the Smithsonian Institution.
Franklin Richard Bruns Jr. | Introduction
In 1991, Schermer was responsible for merging the American Newspaper Publishers Association with the Newspaper Advertising Bureau and 5 other industry associations into the now 1500 member Newspaper Association of America. Schermer served as chairman of the National Board of the Smithsonian Institution for three years and remains on the board as an honorary trustee. In 1994 he received the Smithsonian's highest award, the Joseph Henry Medal. He serves on the board of The Anderson Ranch Art Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado as a life trustee, is a lifetime trustee of the Aspen Institute and the University of Montana Foundation, and is a former trustee of the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, the World Wildlife Fund and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.
Lloyd Schermer | Later years
Archived Magazine of American History on the Internet Archive
The Magazine of American History | External links
Some of his papers are kept at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Melvin B. Zisfein | Introduction
It started as a weekly publication in August 1845 before turning into monthly in November 1921. Porter sold the publication to Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn a mere ten months after founding it. Until 1948, it remained owned by Munn & Company. Under Munn's grandson, Orson Desaix Munn III, it had evolved into something of a "workbench" publication, similar to the twentieth-century incarnation of "Popular Science". In the years after World War II, the magazine fell into decline. In 1948, three partners who were planning on starting a new popular science magazine, to be called "The Sciences", purchased the assets of the old "Scientific American" instead and put its name on the designs they had created for their new magazine.
Scientific American | History
The collection was transferred to the care of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, part of the Duke University Libraries in 2004.
American Newspaper Repository | Introduction
Originating as a newsletter for members of PRI and the Museum of the Earth, "American Paleontologist" was a quarterly magazine designed to be accessible for everyone interested in fossils and the history of life. American Paleontologist was published in themed issues and featured articles by experts in paleontology and related fields, regular columns, book reviews, scientific and PRI-specific news, a museum calendar of events, and an insert geared towards children titled "Fossil Stuff". Publication of American Paleontologist was halted in 2012, following the release of volume 19.
Paleontological Research Institution | "American Paleontologist"
but that it publishes many historians "whose work nobody has ever called simplistic, or sentimental, or undemanding.
American Heritage (magazine) | Contents
Richard Rathbun was instrumental in the establishment of the natural history building of the Smithsonian Institution. He was also responsible for what would become the National Collection of Fine Arts, when he oversaw the acquisition of the William T. Evans collection of contemporary American art.
Richard Rathbun | Work
The magazine was founded by David Furchgott, with the first issue published in 1987. It is partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sculpture (magazine) | History and operations
Smithsonian Research Online lists 56 publications by Selig. Selected publications include: 2019. Putting Archaeology and Anthropology into Schools: A 2019 Update Journal of Archaeology and Education 3. (With Colleen Popson). 2017 AnthroNotes. All 84 issues of AnthroNotes were catalogued, scanned, digitized, and made available online. Selig authored new abstracts for over 250 individual articles that are searchable and downloadable through keyword topics as well as by author, title, and date. AnthroNotes was published two or three times each year by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History from 1979 to 2012. Selig was co-founder and senior editor of the publication from its beginning.
Ruth O. Selig | Publications
This article contains public domain text from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. | References
A collection of her papers and other miscellany is held by the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
Dorothy Heller | Introduction
Though, in essence, an entirely new magazine, the publishers kept the volume numbering because the previous incarnation had been indexed in the "Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature". Each year begins in December and continues through the following October, published every other month. For example, Volume XXV issues are December 1973, February 1974, April 1974, June 1974, August 1974, and October 1974. December 1974 begins Volume XXVI. Bruce Catton remained with the magazine for 25 years until his death in 1979 and published over 100 essays. He warned historians against "regarding the past so fondly we are unable to get it in proper focus, and we see virtues that were not there.”
American Heritage (magazine) | History
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Smithsonian Institution Archives | History
Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art was a monthly periodical published by G. P. Putnam's Sons featuring American literature and articles on science, art, and politics.
Putnam's Magazine | Introduction
In 1850, Baird became the first curator at the Smithsonian Institution and the Permanent Secretary for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the latter which he served for three years. Upon his arrival in Washington, he brought two railroad box cars worth of his personal collection. Baird would create a museum program for the Smithstonian, requesting that the organization focus on natural history in the United States. His program also allowed him to create a network of collectors through an exchange system. He would ask that members of the Army and Navy collect rare animals and plant specimens from west of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
Spencer Fullerton Baird | Starting at the Smithsonian
Jewett had a vision for a national library, which would hold a union catalog of all the public libraries in the United States. This catalog would give scholars access to important books, point out differences in intellectual fields, and generally act as an aid to the evolution of knowledge while making the Smithsonian Institution the pre-eminent center for research. He spent the greater part of his life developing guidelines toward this end.
Charles Coffin Jewett | National library
EyeLevel, the first blog at the Smithsonian Institution, was started in 2005 and, as of 2013, the blog "has approximately 12,000 readers each month".
Smithsonian American Art Museum | Outreach
His collection is held by the Smithsonian Institution Washington D. C.
Sievert Allen Rohwer | Introduction
libraries. He also started mechanical duplication of individual catalog entries for the re-publication of book catalogs using the technique of stereotyping. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1851. Jewett was unanimously elected president at the first Librarian's Convention in 1853. Jewett left the Smithsonian after being relieved of his position due to conflicts with his supervisor and the Board of Regents over how the Institution's funds were being allocated. He went on to become Superintendent of the Boston Public Library in 1858, where he remained until his death.
Charles Coffin Jewett | Career
"Up to now there has been no general magazine of wide circulation reporting on it. A gap exists between the findings of the scholars and the educated public," he wrote. There were three issues of the magazine a year until 1992, when it became quarterly. Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along with "American Heritage" itself). Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed title "American Heritage's Invention & Technology". Publication was suspended after the Winter 2011 issue (volume 25, number 4).
American Heritage of Invention &amp; Technology | Introduction
The project dedicated an issue of the magazine to a re-examination of the legacy of slavery in America, at the anniversary of the 1619 arrival of the first slaves to Virginia, challenging the notion that the history of the United States began in 1776. The initiative quickly grew into a larger project. The project encompasses multiple issues of the magazine, with related materials in multiple other publications of the "Times" as well as a project curriculum developed in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center, for use in schools. The project employed a panel of historians and had support from the Smithsonian, for fact-checking, research and development.
The 1619 Project | Project
Construction began on the Smithsonian Institution Building ("the Castle") in 1849. Designed by architect James Renwick Jr., its interiors were completed by general contractor Gilbert Cameron. The building opened in 1855. The Smithsonian's first expansion came with construction of the Arts and Industries Building in 1881. Congress had promised to build a new structure for the museum if the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition generated enough income. It did, and the building was designed by architects Adolf Cluss and Paul Schulze, based on original plans developed by Major General Montgomery C. Meigs of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. It opened in 1881.
Smithsonian Institution | Museums and buildings
It was first published in 1901. Elijah Howarth was the first editor, and remained editor until 1909, when he resigned. Peter van Mensch described the publication as "the first national journal for the museum field as a whole".
Museums Journal | History
The journal was founded by Alpheus Hyatt, Edward S. Morse, Alpheus S. Packard Jr., and Frederick W. Putnam at the Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts. The first issue appeared in print dated March 1867. In 1878 the journal was for sale and Edward Cope bought half the rights. He moved the journal to Philadelphia and arranged to edit it jointly with Professor Alpheus S. Packard Jr. Cope became editor-in-chief in 1887 and continued in that capacity until his death in 1897. In 1897, a group of professors from M.I.T., Harvard, and Tufts bought the rights from the Cope estate and kept the journal in publication until 1907 when J.
The American Naturalist | History
In 1968 the company merged with Publication Corporation, a leading printer of Sunday magazines for newspapers and the publisher of "This Week magazine". The companies had a shared history—Joseph P. Knapp, who had helped develop the Crowell Publishing Company, had founded Publication Corporation as American Lithograph Company in 1891. The Publication had also been a principal stockholder of Crowell-Collier—owning 24% at one point. The goal for the merger was to distribute periodicals efficiently in the education market. By 1969, Crowell made the decision to shut down the "This Week" magazine which had a circulation of 9 million as a weekend supplement for papers such as "The Providence Journal" and "the Kansas City Star".
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company | Return to magazines
From 1947 to 1949 the American Association for State and Local History published a house organ, American Heritage: A Journal of Community History. In September 1949, AASLH launched the magazine with broader scope for the general public, but keeping certain features geared to educators and historical societies. In 1954, AASLH sold the magazine to a quartet of writers and editors from Time, Inc. including James Parton, Oliver Jensen, Joseph J. Thorndike and founding editor Bruce Catton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War. They formed the American Heritage Publishing Company and introduced the hardcover, 120-page advertising-free "magazine" with Volume 6, Number 1 in December 1954.
American Heritage (magazine) | History
The Smithsonian Institution ( ), also known simply as The Smithsonian, is a trust instrumentality of the United States composed as a group of museums and research centers. It was founded on August 10, 1846, "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". The institution is named after its founding donor, British scientist James Smithson. It was originally organized as the "United States National Museum", but that name ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967. Termed "the nation's attic" for its eclectic holdings of 154 million items, the Institution's 19 museums, 21 libraries, nine research centers, and zoo include historical and architectural landmarks, mostly located in the District of Columbia.
Smithsonian Institution | Introduction
From 1962 to 1979 Cannon was a historian of science and a Curator of the Classical Physics and Geosciences collection at the Smithsonian Institution. She founded and was the first editor of the "Smithsonian Journal of History". In 1976 Cannon changed her name to Susan Faye Cannon, thereafter referring to herself as a 'male woman'.
Susan Faye Cannon | Introduction
To coincide with the landmark retrospective of the same name, in 2018 Keene State College published the catalogue "Robert S. Neuman: Impulse and Discipline". In 1990, Neuman was interviewed by the Smithsonian Institution to record his invaluable insights into the previous half century of American art for posterity. The interview exists as public record in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Robert S. Neuman | Publications
The magazine was created in 1844 when New York publishers Leavitt, Trow and Company purchased the Eclectic Museum from Eliakim Littell and renamed it "The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art". Leavitt, Trow, & Co published the magazine in New York from 1844 to 1898. It was sold in 1898 to its weekly Boston-based rival, Littell's "Living Age", who kept it in publication until 1905. It returned to New York in 1905 but was discontinued in 1907. Its first editor was John Holmes Agnew, a professor of ancient languages and member of the Presbyterian clergy. Agnew was soon replaced by Walter Bidwell, who held the editorship from 1846 until his death in 1881.
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art | History
David Stone, a former sub-editor with "Everybody's Weekly", was appointed editor and, with the dummy approved, the magazine began publication. However, before the new title reached the newsstands, John Sanders replaced Stone as editor.
Look and Learn | Pre-publication history
The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle (1743-1746) was a periodical in Boston, Massachusetts, printed by Rogers & Fowle (Gamaliel Rogers and Daniel Fowle), and published by Samuel Eliot and Joshua Blanchard. Scholars suggest that Jeremiah Gridley served as editor.
American Magazine and Historical Chronicle | Introduction
Among the ongoing social media initiatives are a blog, Facebook page, Flickr page, and a Twitter feed.
Smithsonian Libraries | Social media
The museum is also a Smithsonian affiliate.
Reginald Lewis | Philanthropy
Paul Henry Oehser (27 March 1904, Cherry Creek, New York – 4 December 1996, Boone, North Carolina) was an author of three books and an editor of scientific publications. Oehser graduated in 1925 from Greenville College in Illinois. Soon after graduation he moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Bureau of Biological Survey as an assistant scientific editor. Beginning in 1931 he was an editor working for the Smithsonian Institution and in 1950 became director of the Institution's Editorial and Publications Division. From 1951 to 1966 he continued as director but also served as the Smithsonian Institution's public relations officer.
Paul Henry Oehser | Introduction
While at the Smithsonian Institution, Leavy cataloged the institution's entire collection, recording it in "Catalogue of the Postage Stamps and Stamped Envelopes of the United States and Possessions Issued to January 1, 1919" (dated 1919). He also wrote, in 1912, "The Postage Stamps of Holland (XIX Century)", and, in 1918 and 1919 he was editor of "The American Philatelist".
Joseph Britton Leavy | Philatelic literature
He was the founding editor of the "Museums Journal", which he edited from 1901 to 1909.
Elijah Howarth | Introduction
The Smithsonian began a capital campaign in 1929, coinciding with the start of the Great Depression. During this tenure, Abbot oversaw the Smithsonian's participation in Works Progress Administration projects, including the Federal Art Project. Projects included new buildings and artwork at the National Zoo, and the start of the Smithsonian's first media project, a radio show called "The World is Yours". The program would be ceased in 1942 due to World War II. In the 1930s an expansion was approved for the National Museum of Natural History building, which would not begin until the 1960s. The Institute for Social Anthropology was also transferred to the Smithsonian during this time.
Charles Greeley Abbot | Life and work as Smithsonian Secretary
Russell Baker, in an interview in the alumni magazine "Columbia College Today", called Peters “a great editor in an age that’s not producing great editors.”
Charles Peters | Founding of the "Washington Monthly"
The New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository was a monthly literary magazine published in New York City from 1790 to 1797, and claimed as one of the four most important magazines of its time. One of the longest-running magazines of that era (it published almost 100 issues), it focused on theater and travel writing and also essays, poems, and short stories. The magazine was founded by Thomas and James Swords, who published, printed, and probably edited it. Some of the writers came from "The Friendly Club", a literary society, and included William Dunlap (author of the theater column) and Elihu Hubbard Smith, besides beginning and established authors such as Charles Brockden Brown and Joel Barlow, whose "The Hasty-Pudding" was published by the magazine in 1796.
The New-York Magazine | Introduction
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, and later merged with "Collier's". "The American Magazine" was published by Crowell-Collier until it folded in 1956.
The American Magazine | History
The papers of Edmund Greacen are at the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Included are numerous writings, drawings, and photographs, as well as materials related to the National Academy of Design, the National Arts Club, the Manhattan School of Art, and the Grand Central School of Art.
Edmund Greacen | Archives
It was founded in 1947 in New York, by William Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948. Morgan edited the magazine from its founding until 1998, when Paula Deitz succeeded him. According to the "Review"'s website: "the magazine has dealt with the area where literature bears on the intellectual life of the time and on diverse aspects of American culture. It has no university affiliation and is not committed to any narrow academic aim or to any particular political perspective." In 2006, Princeton University libraries announced that they had acquired the archives of the journal, which included important works including an Ezra Pound manuscript.
The Hudson Review | History
Calverton founded the Modern Quarterly, a politics and arts magazine which ran from 1923 to 1933. From 1933 until his death in 1940 it continued as "The Modern Monthly. "It was notable for publishing opposing views within the same issue and supporting the work of black intellectuals." "
V. F. Calverton | Works
Pilkington, mainly contributing anonymously, wrote poetry, stories, biographies, and social gossip for the magazine. She also contributed by conducting editorial work. From 1830 Charles Robert Forrester was also a contributor.
The Lady's Monthly Museum | Content
Born out of the wild foods foraging of founder Whitney Smith, the magazine was conceived in 1986-1987 by an editorial team that included Smith and architect Peter Ferguson, public relations consultant Kim Obrist and filmmaker and publisher Christopher Lowry. Smith attributed his inspiration for the formation of the society to the National Geographic Society (which published its own journal) and "FILE" magazine, produced by the conceptual and media-based art collective, General Idea, and to the "Utne Reader"'s use of other published materials. The SPWC was in production in Toronto from 1986 to 1991. Graphic designer Bernard Stockl became the art director and quickly established the look of the magazine, including the characteristic contents page.
The Society for the Preservation of Wild Culture | Organic start
Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut and the Archives of American Art within the Smithsonian Institution both have collections of her papers, photographs, and drawings.
Ellen Emmet Rand | Introduction
His papers are now in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.
Alfred Levitt | Introduction
He left the university in 1944 to take up the appointment as director of the New York State Museum. He created the Society for American Archaeology and began publishing the "American Antiquity" journal.
Carl E. Guthe | Introduction
The Smithsonian Associates was formed in 1992 from combining the Resident Associates Program with the Smithsonian National Associate Program. The Smithsonian Associates was established as the cultural, educational, and membership division of the Smithsonian Institution. These membership and educational programs include the Young Benefactors, Smithsonian Sleepovers, Resident Associates Program, Discovery Theatre, Regional Events, and the Art Collectors Program. The Art Collectors Program is devoted to the creation and appreciation of contemporary American limited-edition art and to creating a context for collecting and a forum for artists to discuss their work. The Program sells Smithsonian-commissioned contemporary fine art prints and posters by acclaimed American artists like Sam Gilliam and April Gornik.
S. Dillon Ripley Center | Introduction
His files are archived in the Smithsonian Libraries.
Gamaliel Waldo Beaman | Introduction
"Anent truth," "S4N", 14th issue ([December?] 1920). "Art credo—a challenge," "S4N", 5th issue (March 1920). "The birth of a myth, or how we wrote "Dodsworth"," "Dartmouth College Library Bulletin", n.s., vol. 3, no. 3 (April–October i960), 50-54.
Ramon Guthrie | Articles in journals, newspapers and magazines
Dillon Ripley Center in the National Mall. He donated his talent to produce "In Celebration", a 35-color limited-edition serigraph that highlighted his trademark use of color. The sale benefited the Smithsonian Associates, the continuing education branch of the larger Smithsonian Institution. In early 2009, he again donated his talents to the Smithsonian Associates to produce a 90-color serigraph entitled "Museum Moment", which he describes as "a celebration of art".
Sam Gilliam | Recognition
Ayer was also an early benefactor of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), instrumental in its foundation and serving as its first president. The FMNH arose from the collections assembled for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, as the curator in charge of the collections F.W. Putnam sought to establish a permanent exhibition of the materials. As one of the museum's incorporators, Ayer set to work establishing an endowment fund, and approached the retail magnate Marshall Field (after whom the museum was later named) for contributions. Field was initially reluctant, reportedly declaring "I don't know anything about a museum, and I don't care to know anything about a museum".
Edward E. Ayer | Book and manuscript collections
In the 1970s, Levine wrote that in July 1946 Benjamin Mandel (a "guide to the mission" of the magazine), had accompanied by Father John F. Cronin and Alfred Kohlberg, approached Levine at his Norwalk, Connecticut, home. Kohlberg funded $25,000 for it plus a free office, plus funding for five staffers. The magazine was established in 1946 and the first issue appeared in October 1946. Due to low circulation and readership levels the magazine ceased publication in May 1950. Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover had provided some funding, but, "half-hearted," it did not succeed in shoring up the magazine. Connected to the magazine was the name Theodore Cooper Kirkpatrick, who, with fellow ex-FBI agent Kenneth M.
Plain Talk | History
His printing enterprise and journals were relocated to PRI following the split from Cornell, and Harris continued to print them himself on his rotary press until two years before his death.
Gilbert Dennison Harris | Paleontological Research Institution