| Description |
29 v. : ill. |
| Current Frequency |
Monthly |
| Publication Date |
Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1837)- |
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Ceased with: Vol. 29 (Dec. 1851) |
| Series |
Library of American civilization ; LAC 30219-33.
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| Note |
Title from caption. |
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Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840. |
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This general magazine was most famous under the editorship of John O'Sullivan (1837-1846), when the combination of literature of real excellence with vigorous articles on political, economic and social questions made it an important periodical. Contributors included Bryant, Hawthorne, Whittier, Lowell, and Longfellow, and these writers continued for ten years to enrich the Democrat's pages, doing much to give it the good literary standing it enjoyed in the years 1837-1846. It also contained good comparatively lively tales, poetry, and book reviews. But less literary articles on questions of national policy afforded the piece de resistance of each issue. Portraits of famous statesmen appeared throughout the years, and taken altogether, the file furnishes an interesting portrait gallery. In 1846 financial disaster overtook Sullivan and the Democratic review passed into other hands. |
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Editor: 1846-1851, T.P. Kettell. |
| Numbering |
Publication suspended: Nov.-Dec. 1837, Aug. 1838, Jan.-June 1841. |
| Reproduction |
Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 14 microfiches ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 30219-33) |
| Issued By |
Imprint varies: 1837- , Washington, D.C. : Langtree and O'Sullivan; -1851, New York, N.Y. : J. and H.G. Langley. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
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| Key Title |
The United States magazine and democratic review |
| Absorbed |
Boston quarterly review
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| Continued By |
Democratic review
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