True Story Magazines The magazines are used and aged. The front and back cover is ripped a little at the spine. In protective plastic bags. These are entertaining magazines from the 1930s and 40s. The theme's changed from year to year but these 1930s and 40s ones were special. Read the history to find out. History: True Story is an American magazine published by True Renditions, LLC. It was the first of the confessions magazines genre, having launched in 1919. It carried the subtitle Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. During the Great Depression, the emphasis lay on feminine behavior, maternity, marriage, and stoic endurance. Women who dedicated themselves to work were unable to marry or maintain a happy marriage; women who remained independent could not conceive or suffered miscarriages and stillbirths. With the outbreak of World War II, the stories began to feature war work favorably. However, it continued the sexual themes, such as having war workers be seduced, have affairs with married men, or engage in many casual affairs; the Magazine Bureau objected to this, as hindering recruitment, and argued that war workers should not be shown as more prone to dalliance than other women, and the magazine removed such themes from stories dealing with war workers. The ambitious career woman still appeared; women, however, who worked from patriotic motives were able to maintain their marriages and bear children. During post-war reconversion, the emphasis changed to marriage and motherhood. -from wiki