Episode 1790
The Yankee
Wed, 2022-Mar-30 00:21 UTC
Length - 2:20
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The featured article for Wednesday, 30 March 2022 is The Yankee.
The Yankee (later retitled The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette) was one of the first cultural publications in the US, founded and edited by John Neal (1793–1876), and published in Portland, Maine. The magazine was unique at the time for its independent journalism. Neal used creative control of the magazine to improve his social status, help establish the American gymnastics movement, cover national politics, and critique American literature, art, theater, and social issues.
Many new, predominantly female, writers and editors started their careers with contributions and criticism of their work published in The Yankee, including many who are familiar to modern readers. Essays by Neal on American art and theater anticipated major changes and movements in those fields realized in the following decades. The articles on women's rights and early feminist ideas affirmed intellectual equality between men and women and demanded political and economic rights for women. Conflicting opinions published in The Yankee on the cultural identity of Maine and New England presented readers with a complex portrait of the region. The magazine began as a weekly publication and later converted to a longer, monthly format. Its two-year run concluded at the end of 1829.
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For the full current version of the article, see The Yankee on Wikipedia.
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