When Magazines Had Visions Of Changing (And Improving) The World
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In 1895 Ladies´ Home Journal began to offer unfrilly, family-friendly architectural plans in its pages. They were mainly colonial, Craftsman, or modern ranch-style houses, and many still stand today. The Cosmopolitan, as it was then known, advertised the Cosmopolitan University, a custom-designed college degree-for free!-by correspondence course. McClure´s magazine, the juggernaut of investigative journalism-home to […]