Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (Graham's) is a literary periodical published monthly although it gives a small share to other fields including printmaking, fashion and music. This magazine covers a variety of literary fields, from short stories, poems, and essays, and covers various flavors, from belles lettres to sentimental literature. During those periods, the magazine's contributors, in addition to numerous writers who exist only on tarnished paper, included such canonical writers as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mrs. Lydia H. Sigourney, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, among others . Thanks to its inclusiveness in genres and wide range of literary works, Graham's gained a large readership and, simultaneously, the magazine helped shape white American idealism by maintaining silence on political or social issues at the time and strengthening the already established social system. for contemporary issues is evident from his non-existent editorial statement. It is difficult to find an explicit editorial position during 1843-44 mainly for two reasons. Owner and editor-in-chief George R. Graham did not have his own specific taste in literature or editorial stance; his first concern was apparently a cultural business, not culture itself. In his article "A Brief History of Graham Magazine", Frank Luther Mott states that this magazine was the result of the combination of Casket: Flowers of Literature, Wit and Sentiment and Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. He continues to argue that when Graham purchased the two magazines and they merged as Graham Magazine, he simply followed the merits of each magazine, which would have promoted readership (364). On the other hand, Grah... half the paper... you get when you open a print magazine. This is mainly due to text-based modes, microfilm or digitized texts. When the author's works are displayed on the screen in a small portion at a time, another ahistorical text is produced. This time it is not necessary to extract a work from an anthology. Instead, the reader must read the text confined by modern technology, which once again alienates the text from the cultural or social atmosphere of the period in which the magazine was actually published. Works Cited Casper, Scott E., et al. A history of the book in America. vol. 3. The industrial book 1840-1880. Chapel Hill: UP of North Carolina, 2007. Print. "Publisher's Table". Graham's American Monthly Magazine 26.6 (1844): 296. Google Books. Network. September 25, 2010. Mott, Frank Luther. "A Brief History of Graham's Magazine." Philosophical Studies 25.3 (1928): 362-74. Network. 9 October. 2010.