Sunday Magazine

In a June 1924 New York Times Magazine article, M.B. Levick analyzed the rise of women’s looks as a preeminent qualification in hiring. The era of “first wave feminism” is considered to ha...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/06/16/reign-of-beauty-in-business/

P.W. Wilson previewed the upcoming presidential election for a June 1924 New York Times Magazine article, with some strong similarities to 2024’s election… but also some huge differences. Fir...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/06/09/coolidge-the-man-who-says-no/

In a June 1924 New York Times Magazine article, Anne O’Hare McCormick declared that several years after World War I, European politics had returned to normal. A decade and a half later, the con...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/06/02/europe-is-herself-again/

In a May 1924 New York Times Magazine article, George MacAdam predicted how New York City would transform in the decades to come. Some predictions were accurate, like electricity replacing coal. ...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/05/26/vision-of-new-york-that-may-be/

The Immigration Act of 1924 banned immigrants from Asia, set national quotas for immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, and allowed entry only to those with visas. That May, New York Times ...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/05/19/immigration-before-there-was-a-quota/

After falling out of favor as a fashion style, top hats began to make a comeback among men in 1924. As a May 1924 New York Times Magazine article (with no byline) wrote: The high silk hat — or...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/05/12/top-hats-renascence/

In 1924, New York Times Magazine profiled the precipitous decline of a once-common NYC profession: the lamp-lighter. The journalist Bertram Reinitz briefly explained the history: The first elect...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/05/05/the-descent-of-lamp-lighting/

In 1924, three years after Ireland won independence in 1921, New York Times Magazine reported on how many traces of old Britishness were disappearing from the new nation. The Irish War of Indepen...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/04/28/the-irishing-of-ireland/

In 1924, the vice presidency was vacant. Former VP Calvin Coolidge had ascended to the presidency, but not yet nominated his own subordinate. New York Times Magazine analyzed who both parties cou...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/04/21/the-cinderella-of-politics/

A 1924 New York Times Magazine preview of that summer’s upcoming Democratic National Convention called the bid of John W. Davis “his impossible plea for nomination.” He ended up getting th...

https://sundaymagazine.org/2024/04/14/bosses-of-national-conventions/