The classic example is Vannevar Bush's essay " As We May Think" (July 1945), which inspired Douglas Engelbart and later Ted Nelson to develop the modern workstation and hypertext technology. The magazine has published speculative articles that inspired the development of new technologies. Harking back to its abolitionist roots, in its August 1963 edition, at the height of the civil rights movement, the magazine published Martin Luther King Jr.'s defense of civil disobedience, " Letter from Birmingham Jail". For example, of the emerging writers of the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway had his short story " Fifty Grand" published in the July 1927 edition. 1868 Įditors have recognized major cultural changes and movements. Literary history Ītlantic Monthly office, Ticknor & Fields, 124 Tremont Street, Boston, c. In 1879, the magazine had offices in Boston's Winthrop Square and at 21 Astor Place in New York City. The Atlantic 's first issue was published in November 1857, and quickly gained fame as one of the finest magazines in the English-speaking world. But none of you knows the American people as well as I do. Lowell knows more of the old poets than I. Holmes can write funnier verses than I can. Īt that dinner he announced his idea for a magazine: Each one is known alike on both sides of the Atlantic, and is read beyond the limits of the English language. Leaving myself and 'literary man' out of the group, I think you will agree with me that it would be difficult to duplicate that number of such conceded scholarship in the whole country besides. The time occupied was longer by about four hours and thirty minutes than I am in the habit of consuming in that kind of occupation, but it was the richest time intellectually by all odds that I have ever had. We sat down at three P.M., and rose at eight. The above named were the only ones invited, and they were all present.
Imagine your uncle as the head of such a table, with such guests. But to the Party: My invitations included only R. It would be proper, perhaps, to state the origin of it was a desire to confer with my literary friends on a somewhat extensive literary project, the particulars of which I shall reserve till you come. I must tell you about a little dinner-party I gave about two weeks ago. This plan was launched in a dinner party, as described in a letter by Phillips: In the autumn of 1857, Boston publisher Moses Dresser Phillips created The Atlantic Monthly. The website's executive editor is Adrienne LaFrance, and the editor-in-chief is Jeffrey Goldberg. In July 2017, Bradley sold a majority interest in the publication to Laurene Powell Jobs's Emerson Collective. In 2016, the periodical was named Magazine of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Editors. In 2010, The Atlantic posted its first profit in a decade. Bradley, who refashioned it as a general editorial magazine primarily aimed at serious national readers and " thought leaders". It dropped "Monthly" from the cover beginning with the January/February 2004 issue, and officially changed the name in 2007.Īfter experiencing financial hardship and undergoing several ownership changes in the late 20th century, the magazine was purchased by businessman David G. It was a monthly magazine for 144 years until 2001, when it published 11 issues it has published 10 issues yearly since 2003. A change of name was not officially announced when the format first changed from a strict monthly (appearing 12 times a year) to a slightly lower frequency. In addition, The Atlantic Monthly Almanac was an annual almanac published for Atlantic Monthly readers during the 19th and 20th centuries. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, as The Atlantic Monthly, a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.
November 1, 1857 164 years ago ( ) (as The Atlantic Monthly)
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