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Review of Reviews was a noted monthly journal founded in 1890 by British reform journalist William Thomas Stead (1849-1912) and American academic, journalist, and reformer Albert Shaw (1857-1947).

Review of Reviews was notable because it was, for a period, published simultaneously in London and New York. As such, it represented the views and concerns of participants in the trans-Atlantic culture of progressive reform so brilliantly discussed in Daniel T. Rodgers's Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998).

Stead was a career journalist who was drawn into reform politics in the 1880s, crusading through for such causes as British-Russian friendship, ending child prostitution, the reform of England's criminal codes, and the maintenance of international peace. He also authored many books, including The Truth about Russia (1888), If Christ Came to Chicago (1893), and The Americanization of the World (1902). Stead died in the sinking of the [[Titanic]] in 1912.

Shaw was part of the first generation of academic reformers which included Woodrow Wilson (who was his classmate at Johns Hopkins University). Born in Iowa, Shaw studied at Grinnell College and received his doctorate in government at Johns Hopkins in 1884. Declining an appointment at Cornell, Shaw became editor of the Minneapolis Tribune and a widely published author of books on municipal reform.

Review of Reviews is one of the best primary sources on American reform between 1890 and 1920, providing not only a panoramic view of the range of reformers' interests, but also the ties between British and American progressives. In its early years, the Review was published simultaneously in New York and London. With volume 3, the American edition was no longer identical with the British. The British edition continued publication until 1936. The American edition lasted until 1934.