Note: in many cases, current issues are shelved in the Periodicals Reading Room and issues from circa 1990 onwards are available online. Check the Main Catalog for more detailed information.
Most of the periodicals on this list are indexed in Reader's Guide.
Businessweek Archive also Business week 1929-present Firestone HF5001 .B964
Ebony 1956-present Firestone Oversize E185.5 .E266q
1945-2003 MICROFILM S00001 (Note: indexed in Reader's Guide only starting 1961.)
Esquire: 1933-2014
Essence 1970-present Firestone E185.86 .E874 (Note: indexed in Reader's Guide only starting 1978.) Also in Women's Magazine Archive
GQ 1958-2019
Jet 1951-present
1986-present RECAP MICROFILM S00993
1966-86 Annex A, Forrestal: Locked Books (L): 0901.442 (Note: not indexed in Reader's Guide.)
Life
1883-1936 RECAP 0901.L722 and MICROFILM S00932
1936-1972 Firestone: Oversize AP2 .L544q; Annex A, Forrestal: Oversize 0901.L724q
1978-2000 MICROFILM S00934
Nation Digital Archive 1865+ (current year excluded)
also 1888-present Firestone G1 .N385
National Review 1955-present in OpinionArchives
Firestone AP2 .N3855; RECAP MICROFICHE 195
New Republic 1914-present: in OpinionArchives
1935-1986 RECAP Oversize AP2 .N497q
also RECAP MICROFILM S00003
Newsweek 1933-2005 in News, Policy, and Politics Magazine Archive
1933-present: MICROFILM S00034 [1933-1974 in Firestone Microforms Services (Film); 1975-present in RECAP];
New Yorker 1925-present: Firestone Oversize AP2 .N4992q and on DVD: Firestone Microforms Services (FilmB) COMPUTER FILE 451
Playboy 1953-present: MICROFILM S00154 (Note: not indexed in Reader's Guide, but see Playboy Index FilmB AP2 .xP691)
Popular Science 1872-present: Firestone AP2 .P678
Reader's Digest 1922-2003: RECAP MICROFILM S00459
Saturday Evening Post 1899-1969: MICROFILM S00608 [1899-Feb. 1931 in Firestone Microforms Services (Film); Mar. 1931-1969 in RECAP]
Scientific American 1845-present
1907-2009 Firestone Oversize Q1 .S3544q
Sports Illustrated 1954-present: Firestone Oversize GV561 .S667q and MICROFILM S00974/MICROFICHE 1949
Time 1923-present
Also RECAP MICROFILM S00236 to find the actual articles in full.
U.S. News & World Report 1948-present
1933-present: MICROFILM S00237
Variety 1905-present
RECAP MICROFILM S01137 (Note: not indexed in Reader's Guide or in International Index to the Performing Arts)
Collier's (1905-1957) RECAP Oversize 0901.C711q (Note: we do not have the previous title, "Collier's Weekly," 1888-1904)
Cosmopolitan (1886-1907) American Periodical Series
(1886-1915) RECAP MICROFILM S00898
(1915-1919) RECAP 0901.C836
(1925-1952; not complete) RECAP MICROFILM S00495
Fortune (1930-present): Firestone Oversize HF5001 .F678q; current issues in PR
Look (1937-1971 - we have 1954-1971): Firestone Oversize AP2 .L665q
Esquire (1933-present): Firestone Oversize AP2 .E878q; MICROFILM S00252; AP2 .E845.
Vogue 1892-2014: RECAP MICROFILM S01478; RECAP TT500 .V7
Liberty Magazine 1924-1950 is in Gale News Vault
Some widely-read British periodicals not available at Princeton:
France
Germany
Italy