What's your favorite magazine?

[gollygee]

I'm trying to find a good Christmas present for my dad. He is a retired history teacher and, obviously, is a huge history buff.

Thanks for any suggestions :)

[Tangledog]

1. A regional magazine, perhaps?

I don't read any of them regularly (except Hartford Monthly, about the city known graciously as "the filing cabinet of New England"), but I've seen a few of them, and here are a few that might interest a historian.

New Mexico can be very interesting. I remember reading one article that discussed whether the restrictions placed on architecture to keep it authentically local in feeling have gone too far. They have their "old West" pieces, too, which feel different than "old West" pieces from other places.

Alaska is split between history, tourism, and outdoors stuff. It's as beautiful as you'd expect, and they get some first-rate writers.

I was also impressed by the one issue of Montana Magazine I've seen. I think this one's a quarterly; there's another magazine with a similar title that I haven't looked at. The one issue I saw had an article about labor strife in the copper mines 100 years ago, which is not your everyday topic for a local publication.

I wish I could recommend something Northeastern, but many of our local magazines are too consumer-oriented ("Providence's 375 Best Restaurants"), and even the venerable Yankee and Vermont Life make us quaint and ever so traditional. Made me cranky x( is more like it :).

Hope this gives you some ideas. I don't do enough military history to judge the quality of the many Civil War, &c. publications, and I personally find the Forbesified American Heritage and its knockoffs kind of stereotyped and not fit for a full year's worth of reading.

[David Zephyr]

2. "The Nation"

The Nation and I make it a point to make it my gift to others at holiday time.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. Mother Jones ,been feeding us since the late 70's, what'a gal

Got more information,lists,maps on how to be responsible citizen,and not in the * sense of the word.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. what kind of history?

[WMliberal]

5. Sierra.

or Atlantic Monthly.

[BrotherBuzz]

6. Gee, Christmas has passed...

but I would still recommend Smithsonian Magazine. Finances don't allow me to subscribe, but I talked my small town library into subscribing to it because I love it. I think it's a great blend of science and history and your dad would enjoy it.

[Baja Margie]

7. Wilson Quarterly is good.