Cover of January, 1901 issue

McClure's or McClure's Magazine was an American illustrated monthly periodical popular at the turn of the 20th century. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on It was often compared to The Atlantic Monthly. The Atlantic (formerly known as The Atlantic Monthly) is an American Magazine founded in Boston in 1857 The latter magazine is still published.

Founded by S. S. McClure and John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949), fellow classmate of Knox College, in June 1893, the magazine featured political and literary content. Samuel Sidney McClure (1857 &ndash 1949 was a key figure in Muckraking journalism John Sanborn Phillips (1861-1949 attended Knox College in Illinois where he worked on the student newspaper Knox College is a four-year Coeducational private liberal arts college located in Galesburg Illinois. It published serialized novels-in-progress, a chapter at a time. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story In this way, McClure's published such writers as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Herminie T. Kavanagh, Willa Cather and Arthur Conan Doyle. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936 was an English Author and poet Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism in Jack London (January 12 1876 &ndash November 22 1916 was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Herminie T Kavanagh (1861 Aldershot, Hampshire England – 30 October 1933, Chicago Illinois U Willa Sibert Cather ( December 7, 1873 &ndash April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Mark Twain also contributed. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30 1835 – April 21 1910 better known by the Pen name Mark Twain, was an American Humorist, satirist

The magazine is credited with creating muckraking journalism. For other meanings see Muckraker (disambiguation The term muckraker most associated with a group of American investigative reporters ^[1] Ida Tarbell's series in 1902 exposing the monopoly abuses of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and Ray Stannard Baker's earlier look at the United States Steel Corporation focused the public eye on the conduct of corporations. Ida Minerva Tarbell ( November 5 1857 &ndash January 6 1944) was a American Teacher, Author and Journalist. John Davison Rockefeller ( July 8, 1839 &ndash May 23, 1937) was an American Industrialist and philanthropist Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing transporting refining and marketing company Ray Stannard Baker ( April 17, 1870 – July 12, 1946) also known by his Pen name David Grayson, was a American The United States Steel Corporation ( is an integrated Steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe The magazine helped shape the moral compass of the time.

In 1906 the writing staff defected over disputes with McClure. They formed The American Magazine. The American Magazine was a Periodical publication founded in June 1906, stemming from failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing McClure's immediately began to lose readers and went into debt. S. S. McClure was forced to sell the magazine in 1911 to creditors.

It was eventually retooled as a women's magazine and ran irregularly in this format, with publication from October 1921 to February 1922, September 1924 and April 1925, and February to May 1926. The later issues, from July 1928 until March 1929, were published under the name New McClure's Magazine. The last issue was in March 1929, after which the magazine was absorbed by The Smart Set. For the nonprofit The Smart Set see The Smart Set (TSS The Smart Set was a Literary magazine founded in America in March ^[2]

References

External links

• The Staff Breakup of McClure's Magazine
• Advertisements in McClure's Magazine 1920s
• McClure's magazines at Project Gutenberg, filed under Various