Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/The Yankee

The Yankee

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 30, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 20:56, 5 February 2022 (UTC)



The Yankee was one of America's first cultural publications and a precursor to the independent American press that formed decades later. Founded and edited by John Neal (1793–1876), it was published in Portland, Maine, between 1828 and 1829. The magazine helped establish the American gymnastics movement, covered national politics, and critiqued American literature, art, theater, and social issues. Many new, predominantly female, writers and editors started their careers with publication and coverage in The Yankee, including many who are familiar to modern readers. Essays by Neal on American art and theater anticipated major changes and movements realized in the following decades. His articles on women's rights and early feminist ideas affirmed intellectual equality between men and women and demanded political and economic rights for women, saying "If woman would act with woman, there would be a stop to our tyranny".
 * Most recent similar article(s): Seventy-Six (novel) by John Neal was TFA on January 2, 2022, so I guess there should be a little distance between this TFA and that one because both articles are about literary products from the same person. But I don't see any TFAs about magazines, newspapers, or literary journals in the last few months.
 * Main editors: Dugan Murphy
 * Promoted: January 25, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: I think this article is potentially interesting to a wide breadth of readers given how many different topics The Yankee covered and how many opinions it conveyed that later became accepted by the mainstream concerning those topic areas, particularly in the areas of feminism and women's rights. There's no particular date for which I think it is particularly appropriate to display this TFA and this would be my third TFA nomination to appear on the main page.
 * Support as nominator. Dugan Murphy (talk) 18:57, 25 January 2022 (UTC)