The Outlook (New York City)

The Outlook began publication January 1, 1870, as The Christian Union (1870–1893).

The magazine was titled The Outlook from 1893 to 1928,{{cite book | last1 = Mott | first1 = Frank Luther | title = A History of American Magazines | volume = 1 | publisher = Belknap Press | year = 1930 | location = Cambridge, MA | pages = 422–435 | isbn = 9780674395527 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zt1V-ISXFsoC&pg=PA422 | access-date = 4 October 2016}}{{Rp|422}} reflecting a shift of focus from religious subjects to social and political issues.{{cite book | last1 = Garcia | first1 = Hazel Dicken | title = Journalistic Standards in Nineteenth-Century America | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | year = 1989 | location = Madison, Wisconsin | page = 253 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c9YOd2bzkLIC&pg=PA253 |isbn=9780299121747 |access-date = 4 October 2016}}

In 1900, the ranking weekly magazines of news and opinion were The Independent (1870), The Nation (1865), The Outlook (1870), and, with a different emphasis, The Literary Digest (1890).{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMQJ2xF5oPMC&pg=PA216 | title=American profile, 1900-1909| author=Edward Wagenknecht | isbn=978-0-87023-351-7 | year=1982 | publisher=Univ of Massachusetts Press}}

In 1928 The Independent was merged with The Outlook to form The Outlook and Independent.{{cite book | last1 = Mott | first1 = Frank Luther | author-link1 = Frank Luther Mott | title = A History of American Magazines | volume = 2: 1850-1867 | publisher = Belknap Press | year = 1957 | location = Cambridge, MA | pages = 367–379 | isbn = 9780674395510 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lm7rSZ2BoK8C&pg=PA367 | access-date = 22 March 2013}}

From 1932 to 1935 the magazine was published as The New Outlook. Its last issue was dated June 1935.{{Rp|422}}

• Theodore Roosevelt was an associate editor for The Outlook, after he served as president.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XIHirrKqNRgC&q=the+outlook&pg=PA3| title=New Outlook| editor=Alfred Emanuel Smith| publisher=Outlook Publishing Company, Inc.| year=1909 | first=Theodore | last=Roosevelt}}{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EMCX8VBu33YC&pg=PA145 |title=The last romantic| author=John Hall Wheelock, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman | isbn=978-1-57003-463-3 | year=2002 | publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press}}
• Edwin Arlington Robinson{{cite web |url=http://www.bartleby.com/273/1003.html |title=William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920 - Articles and Reviews of Poets and Poetry Published During 1919–1920 |publisher=bartleby.com|access-date=25 November 2010}}
• In 1900 Booker T. Washington published autobiographical pieces in The Outlook. These pieces were collected in book form and published in 1901 as Up from Slavery. A report by Washington about the new state of Oklahoma was published in the first issue of 1908.Booker T. Washington{{cite web|url=https://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/reader/trial/directory/1890_1914/04_ch19_05.htm/ |title= "Boley: A Negro Town in the American West" 1908}}
• Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Rufus Bellamy, and Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer were editors.
• Oscar Cesare was an editorial cartoonist for the magazine.
• Benjamin Kidd's interview article, "Future of the United States" (September 1, 1894) made him a celebrity in the United States.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V8cxAQAAMAAJ|title=New Outlook|date=1894-01-01|publisher=Outlook publishing Company, Incorporated|language=en}}
• Robert Cantwell was literary editor of The New Outlook (1932–1935)
• Charles Barzillai Spahr (1860-1904), editor from 1886

A collection of poetry from The Outlook, Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and The Century Magazine was published in 1913.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PuEoAAAAYAAJ&q=outlook+magazine&pg=PR11| title=Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry|editor1=William Stanley Braithwaite |editor2=Alan Frederick Pater | publisher=W. S. Braithwaite| year=1913}}

• The Nation (1865)
• The Independent (1870)
• The Literary Digest (1890)

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