22 Facts About Century Magazine

Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association.

Century Magazine was succeeded by Richard Watson Gilder, the managing editor of Scribner's, who would go on to helm The Century for 28 years.

In 1929, due to competition from cheaper magazines and newspapers, The Century became a quarterly, and in 1930 it was merged with The Forum.

Century Magazine sought to create and help shape a "refined" American high culture, often contributing his own poetry to that end.

The Century was generally seen as a conservative magazine and hoped to promote reconciliation between the North and South after the trauma of the Civil War.

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Century Magazine claimed that blacks had, on average, smaller brains than Asians or Caucasians, a finding he attributed to heredity.

The Century Magazine took up some of the environmental causes of its day, expressing satisfaction over the first attempts by the federal government to preserve the nation's forests, and in its later days supported women's suffrage.

The Century suffered due to competition from other cheaper magazines, many of which Gilder and his staff considered vulgar.

Century Magazine went on to argue that the spread of printing and writing would have a similar vulgarizing and cheapening effect on the written word.

The Century Magazine still attracted some of the best fiction authors of the day, however.

Century Magazine wrote a series of editorials in which he laid out his thoughts on the future of Western civilization.

The Century continued this kind of historical reporting with a first-person account of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry it published in 1883, followed in the same issue by a rejoinder from Frank B Sanborn, a self-described "radical abolitionist" who had helped finance the mission.

Edward Weeks wrote that even by 1950 no "quality magazine" had ever had as many subscribers as The Century did in the 1880s, even though by that time the reading public had tripled in size.

Decades later, The Century Magazine returned to Abraham Lincoln as a symbol of the republic's lost virtue.

Century Magazine's reports included detailed illustrations of the suffering of those who suffered on account of their opposition to the government.

Century Magazine noted that "playing upon the deepest and most intense of human emotions as a means of extorting information from unwilling witnesses" was routine in prisons holding political offenders.

Century Magazine published the works of a number of major literary figures.

The Century Magazine published a full-color portrait of Butler in the December 1909 issue.

The Century Magazine Company produced a memorial edition of Alexander Wilson Drake's fiction and art titled Three Midnight Stories in 1916.

The Century Magazine employed many notable editorial cartoonists, including Oscar Cesare.

Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak was another noted contributor to The Century Magazine, writing during his stay at the National Conservatory in New York in the 1890s.

In 1894, The Century Magazine published his fine tribute to fellow composer Franz Schubert.