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‘The Masses’ now available for the masses

Thanks to the fruits of a $270,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) the first volume, 12 issues, of the seminal monthly magazine The Masses is now available in its entirety for your digital perusal at the Modernist Journals Project (MJP)Founded in 1911 The Masses was an illustrated socialist monthly that would soon become the premier journal of Greenwich Village and the burgeoning bohemian art community in New York City. Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Amy Lowell, John Reed Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Sherwood Anderson among many others.Here is editor Max Eastman's "manifesto" that appeared in the first issue:A Free Magazine...

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