The journal published articles which are scholarly in quality but written for more of a mass audience.
The headquarters of the journal was in Silver Spring, Maryland.
[1] The target audience for the journal was academics, students, workers, and labor movement officials and activists.
The editors wanted to achieve historical accuracy, and to produce works that would be useful to specialists and of interest to general readers.
Photographs were thought to be important to include to draw in interest of readers, although historic ones could not always be of the highest quality.