[3] In the late 20th century, the rise of television caused sales of the magazine to decline as the publishing company struggled.

On April 24, 2014, Meredith announced it would stop publishing the magazine as a monthly with the July issue, stating it was "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication".

Women at Home was written by Louisa Knapp Curtis, wife of the paper's publisher, Cyrus H. K.

Its original name was The Ladies' Home Journal and Practical Housekeeper, but Knapp dropped the last three words in 1886.

[11] Bok introduced business practices of low subscription rates and inclusion of advertising to offset costs.

[12] Edward Bok authored more than twenty articles opposed to women's suffrage which threatened his "vision of the woman at home, living the simple life".

"[14] During World War II, the Ladies' Home Journal was a venue for the government to place articles intended for homemakers.

The Ladies' Home Journal was sold to 2 million subscribers in the mid-1920s, grew a little during the depression years, and surged again during post-World War II.

[16] The Journal, along with its major rivals, Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Redbook and Woman's Day, were known as the Seven Sisters, after the women's colleges in the Northeast.

Photographer Brigitte Lacombe was hired to shoot cover photos, with Kate Winslet appearing on the first revamped issue.

The Journal announced that portions of its editorial content would be crowdsourced from readers, who would be fairly compensated for their work.

[31][32] The American cooking teacher Sarah Tyson Rorer served as LHJ's first food editor from 1897 to 1911,[33] when she moved to Good Housekeeping.

Both the book and the column drew their material from the extensive case files of the American Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles, California.

The illustrations of William Ladd Taylor were featured between 1895 and 1926; the magazine also sold reproductions of his works in oil and watercolor.