The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine founded in Boston in 1857 by a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell (who would become its first editor). Originally a monthly publication, the magazine, subscribed to by 425,000 readers, now publishes ten times a year and features articles in the fields of political science and foreign affairs, as well as book reviews.

Editors

James Russell Lowell, 1857-1861

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James Thomas Fields, 1861-1871

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William Dean Howells, 1871-1881

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1881-1890

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Horace Elisha Scudder, 1890-1898

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Walter Hines Page, 1898-1899

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Bliss Perry, 1899-1909

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Ellery Sedgwick, 1909-1938

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Edward A. Weeks, 1938-1966

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Robert Manning, 1966-1980

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William Whitworth, 1980-1999

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Michael Kelly, 1999-2002

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Cullen Murphy, 2002-

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