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Our collective recent history, online

In past few years, several prominent US magazines and newspapers have begun to offer their extensive archives online and on DVD. In some cases, this includes material dating back to the 1850s. Collectively it is an incredible record of recent human history, the ideas, people, and events that have shaped our country and world as recorded by writers, photographers, editors, illustrators, advertisers, and designers who lived through those times. Here are some of most notable of those archives:

Harper's Magazine offers their entire archive online, from 1850 to 2008. Most of it is only available to the magazine's subscribers. Associate editor Paul Ford talks about how Harper's archive came to be.

The NY Times provides their entire archive online, most of it for free. Most of the stories from 1923 to 1986 are available for a small fee. The Times briefly launched an interface for browsing their archive called TimesMachine but withdrew it soon after launch.

Time Magazine has their entire archive online for free, from 1923 to the present.

Sports Illustrated has all their issues online for free, dating back to 1954.

The Atlantic Monthly offers all their articles since Nov 1995 and a growing number from their archive dating back to 1857 for free. For a small fee, most of the rest of their articles are available as well, although those from Jan 1964 - Sept 1992 are not.

The Washington Post has archives going back to 1877. Looks like most of it is for pay.

The New Yorker has free archives on their site going back to 2001, although only some of the articles are included. All of their articles, dating back to 1925, are available on The Complete New Yorker DVD set for $40.

Rolling Stone offers some of their archive online but the entire archive (from 1967 to 2007) is available as a 4-DVD set for $79.

Mad Magazine released a 2-DVD set of every issue of the magazine from 1952-2006.

And more to come...old media is slowly figuring out that more content equals more traffic, sometimes much more traffic.

Update: Nature has their entire archive online, dating back to 1869. (thx, gavin)

 Mar 27, 2008  •  tags: magazines journalism www nytimes harpers timemagazine sportsillustrated atlanticmonthly washingtonpost newyorker rollingstone madmagazine

A look at the newly redesigned Time magazine, available at newsstands today. It's been noted elsewhere that it looks more like The Economist than it did and that the photo on the cover of Reagan crying is actually a photo illustration...the tear was added digitally.

Update: An interview with the guy who added the digital tear to Reagan. Did that Worth1000-grade Photoshopping really warrant an interview?

 Mar 16, 2007  •  tags: magazines timemagazine pentagram design

Item of note included in the announcement of Luke Hayman's addition to the NYC Pentagram office: he and Paula Scher are completely redesigning Time magazine, due to launch in January 2007. Hayman was formerly design director at New York magazine.

 Nov 10, 2006  •  tags: paulascher lukehayman nyc pentagram timemagazine design magazines

Time's White House photographers have a daily photoblog. A good look at the stuff that doesn't make it into the newspapers or magazines. (thx, pablo)

 Oct 24, 2006  •  tags: photography timemagazine weblogs

A pair of photoessays from Time magazine: Martin Luther King in His Own Words and The Last Days of Martin Luther King.

 Jan 16, 2006  •  tags: martinlutherking photography timemagazine

Biography of Martin Luther King from Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.

 Jan 16, 2006  •  tags: martinlutherking timemagazine lists bestof

Pictures of the Year 2005 from Reuters and best photos of the year 2005 from Time. (thx, indrek)

 Dec 23, 2005  •  tags: photography bestof lists bestof2005 reuters timemagazine

Select one-star reviews from Amazon of books on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English language novels since 1923 (discussion).

 Oct 24, 2005  •  tags: books timemagazine lists bestof amazon

Time magazine asks Moby, Malcolm Gladwell, Tim O'Reilly, Clay Shirky, David Brooks, Mark Dery, and Esther Dyson about their views on the future: religion, culture, politics, etc. Gladwell: "If I had to name a single thing that has transformed our life, I would say the rise of JetBlue and Southwest Airlines. They have allowed us all to construct new geographical identities for ourselves."

 Oct 18, 2005  •  tags: future timemagazine moby malcolmgladwell timoreilly clayshirky davidbrooks markdery estherdyson jetblue politics religion science

Time magazine has a list of the "100 best English language novels from 1923 to the present". I'm not much for novels, but I've read 11 of the works on the list.

 Oct 17, 2005  •  tags: timemagazine books lists bestof

Time magazine's decision to name confidential sources unnerves other journalism outlets.

 Jul 1, 2005  •  tags: journalism timemagazine