The Atlantic
The Atlantic (until 2007 officially The Atlantic Monthly, also previously but already colloquially (The) Atlantic ) is an American magazine. She commented originally mainly literary and cultural topics and today contains articles and commentaries on politics and foreign policy as well as reviews.
Originally a monthly magazine, The Atlantic today appears ten times a year and has 425,000 subscribers.
History
The Atlantic Monthly was founded in 1857 in Boston as a monthly magazine by a group of writers who were among those Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell.
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly ( February 11, 1862), as well as William Parker's The Freedman 's Story ( in February and March 1866). In August 1963, the magazine published the defense of civil disobedience by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. The magazine was a point of connection between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson - after she read an article by Higginson in the Atlantic, Dickinson asked him to be her mentor. The Atlantic Monthly also has many of the works of Mark Twain published, including a text which was not published until 2001.
The journal also published several speculative articles that inspired the development of new technologies. The classic example is Vannevar Bush's essay As We May Think in July 1945 that inspired Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart to the development of hypertext technology.
The Atlantic is getting noticed among the literary magazines due to its special ties to New England what it magazines such as Harper's and later the New Yorker, both of which are located in New York City, is different.
Since the third year of their publication, the magazine was moved by the publisher Ticknor and Fields, who later became a part of Houghton Mifflin was. The magazine was bought during the First World War by its then editor Ellery Sedgwick, but remained in Boston.
A sale of the magazine was publicly announced on 27 September 1999 again, which belongs this time by Mort Zuckerman to David Bradley, the owner of the beltway to the National Journal Group. Bradley visited the offices and promised there would be no major changes, including a move to Washington DC
The editors of the magazine announced in April 2005 that the editorial offices would move from the ancestral seat 77 North Washington St., Boston, to the advertising and sales department to Washington, DC to thrust; This was justified by the high real estate prices in Boston. In August, Bradley told the New York Observer that the cost savings only amounts to $ 200,000-300,000 and would be consumed by expenses for severance again. The reason for the move was, therefore, to gather the best minds of Bradley's publications in a place where they could work together. Of the employees in Boston only a few were in agreement with a parade, which allowed Bradley to look for new editorial staff. Also in 2005, The Atlantic announced in the future to publish more short stories in the regular issues and it bring out an annual special edition.
Having already appeared in the magazine in 2001, only eleven times ( pooling of July and August issue ) and now only ten times a year, she called at the end of 2007 by The Atlantic Monthly in The Atlantic has to offer.
The journal publishes in a long time cryptic crosswords that are created by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon.