Lincoln and the Civil War Titles

Founded in November, 1857 by Boston publisher Sampson & Company, the Atlantic Monthly quickly became the leading literary magazine of nineteenth-century America. Read more...
 

Julia Ward Howe, the distinguished author of the famous "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1861), was the editor of The Boatswain's Whistle, a short-run magazine that was published in conjunction with a fair that was held in Boston in November, 1864.  Read more...
 

Frank Leslie was an established success in New York publishing circles when he entered the satire field in January 1859 with his Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun.
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During the Union Army's occupation of southeastern Virginia following General McClellan's unsuccessful Peninsula campaign to capture Richmond in the spring and early summer of 1862, Union troops in Williamsburg commandeered the press of the suspended Weekly Gazette and launched the Cavalier on June 25.  Read more...
 

The Comic Monthly, a six cent, 16-page well-illustrated folio, in the style of Frank Leslie's Budget of Fun, was founded in March 1859 by a minor New York printer and publisher, Jesse Haney.  Read more...
 

Started in the midst of the Civil War in New York City the Continental Monthly quickly became one of the most prominent periodicals on the Northern home front. Read more...
 

Douglass’ Monthly was published by Frederick Douglass, the noted abolitionist who was born into slavery, in Rochester, NY from August 1860 through August 1863.  Read more...
 

Funniest of Phun (also known as the Phunniest of Awl) was launched in New York in May 1864 by W. Jennings Demorest, publisher of Mme. Demorest’s Quarterly of Fashion, from which he made his fortune.  Read more...
 

In 1817, 22-year old James Harper and his 20-year old brother, John, set up a small printing firm in New York City called J. & J. Harper. Joined later by their younger brothers, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher, the firm became the largest book publisher in the United States by 1825.  Read more...
 

Frank Leslie pioneered pictorial news journalism in the United States. Born in England in 1821 as Henry Carter, he went to work as an engraver for the Illustrated London News during its founding year of 1842.  Read more...
 

William Lloyd Garrison started The Liberator in Boston on January 31, 1831 at the age of 23 with the objective of the "extermination of chattel slavery."  Read more...
 

Mrs. Grundy, published from July 8 to September 23, 1865, intentionally missed the Civil War.  Read more...
 

The New York Illustrated News first appeared on November 12, 1859, as an imitator of Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated News.  Read more...
 

Nick Nax For All Creation was a direct competitor to Yankee Notions, identical in format and similar in content.  Read more...
 

The Phunny Phellow, published from 1859 to 1876, was one of the cheapest looking humor magazines in America.  Read more...
 

The mission of Portrait Monthly, which was launched in the midst of the Civil War in July, 1863, was to publish "biographical sketches of the principal persons" of the war. Read more...
 

Founded in 1845, Scientific American is unique among the periodicals included on this site because it is the only one that is still in publication today.  Read more...
 

Thomas W. Strong, the enterprising publisher of Yankee Notions, launched the first comic campaign paper in July 1860 to satirize the crowded presidential field of that year.  Read more...
 

Edited by the gifted journalist, Horace Greeley, the founder of the popular New York Tribune and a keen political observer, the Tribune Almanac and Political Register published important reference information on government and politics.  Read more...
 

The United States Service Magazine rigorously examined the war through the double lens of military science and military history.  Read more...
 

Vanity Fair was a humor magazine which was modeled after the British Punch.
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The Spirit of the Times was the premier American sporting journal of the 19th century.  Read more...
 

Started in 1852, Yankee Notions was the longest running American satire magazine of the Civil War period.  It lasted until 1875.  Read more...



 

DeBow's Review was first published in 1846 in New Orleans by James D. B. DeBow, one of the leading firebrands of the Confederate cause.  Read more...
 

The Index, “A Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature and News,” was published in London from May 1, 1862 through August 12, 1865.  Read more...
 

Founded in 1842, The Illustrated London News is the granddaddy of the weekly illustrated-newspapers.   Read more...
 

The Copperhead publication The Old Guard was a "monthly journal devoted to the principles of 1776 and 1787".   Read more...
 

The Record of News, History and Literature was a Confederate weekly published every Thursday in Richmond, Virginia form June 18 through December 10, 1863.  Read more...
 

When the first issue of Southern Punch appeared on August 15, 1863, the founder and editor of the Richmond comic weekly, John Wilford Overall, a native of Virginia and a prominent journalist predicted that the periodical "will have the largest circulation of any paper in the South."  Read more...
 

The Southern Illustrated News was published weekly (most weeks) from September 13, 1862 until March 25, 1865 by E.W. Ayers and W. H. Wade.  Read more...
 

Although the Weekly Register had a short publishing run of only fourteen months, it was one of the more important Confederate periodicals of the Civil War era.
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“The Mud Turtle” was an obscure two-page Confederate periodical, published in 1864 in Alligator Bayou, Texas, near Port Arthur.  Read more...

HarpWeek is making available five issues dating between July 14 and October 20, 1860 of the Campaign Atlas and Bee, a newspaper advocating the election of presidential nominee Abraham Lincoln and other Republican candidates.
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The Campaign Age was a Democratic campaign newspaper published on behalf of George B. McClellan who ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.  Read more...
 

Published in 20 issues by the Cleveland Plain Dealer from June 30 through November 17, 1860, the Campaign Plain Dealer supported the presidential candidacy of Democrat Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois and his vice-presidential running mate, Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia.  Read more...
 

The Campaign Post was a political newspaper supporting General George B. McClellan, the Democ­ratic presidential nominee of 1864.  Read more...
 

The Campaign Union championed the Constitutional Union ticket of John Bell, the presidential nominee from Tennessee, and Edward Everett, the vice-presidential nominee from Massachusetts.  Read more...
 

This campaign newspaper for Lincoln's second term was published in 16 four-page issues from August 2 - November 15, 1864 in Reading, PA.  Read more...
 

The Freeport Wide Awake was published in Freeport, IL. By Hurlburt & Ingersoll to support Abraham Lincoln’s candidacy in 1860.   Read more...
 

The Illinois State Democrat was an over-sized (20 by 29 inches) four-page which supported Southern Democrat candidate John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 election.  Read more...
 

The Louisiana Signal was a campaign paper published on behalf of John Bell and Edward Everett, candidates of the Constitutional Union Party for President and Vice President, respectively, in the 1860 election.  Read more...
 

George Wilkes, the well seasoned journalist and talented editor of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, the leading sporting journal of the nineteenth century, is the anonymous author of the 1864 presidential campaign pamphlet, McClellan: Who He is . . ., which was published in New York.  Read more...
 

On August 11, 1860, J. M. Cooper of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, published the first issue of the Pennsylvania Statesman, a newspaper dedicated to furthering the presidential candidacy of John C. Breckinridge, the dominant candidate in the South and among Northerners who also demanded federal protection of slavery.
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The Rail Splitter was a campaign newspaper for Abraham Lincoln, the Republican presidential nominee, published in Chicago in 16 issues from June 23 through October 27, 1860.  Read more...
 

The Rail Splitter of Cincinnati was a Republican newspaper supporting the presidential candidacy of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.  Read more...
 

Published in Portland, Maine, Voice from the Belfry sought to further the cause of the Constitutional Union Party at the state and national level.  Read more...
 

The Wide-Awake Pictorial published only this single issue.  Despite being dated  November 1860, it undoubtedly appeared in early to mid-October in the practice of the period.  Read more...

Written between 1860 and 1865, these letters and diary entries are divided evenly between those written by authors loyal to the Union and those with Confederate allegiance.  Read more...