Title
National Magazine: or, a Political, Biographical, Historical, and Literary Repository
Coverage
Richmond, Va.
Publisher
James Lyon
Date
June 1, 1799
Subject
Volume 1, number 1
Description
The first magazine in Virginia, published in response to the imprisonment of editor James Lyon’s brother under the Alien and Sedition Acts. It provided “an extraordinary contemporary resource for the anti-Federalist, Jeffersonian, Strict Constructionist philosophy that Virginians developed to oppose the policies of Alexander Hamilton and the Washington-Adams Administrations.”