The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
The magazine's April 2016 cover
James Russell Lowell, the first editor of The Atlantic
In February 1862, The Atlantic was first to publish the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and critical thinking, as well as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and conformity. Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was "the most gifted of the Americans", and Walt Whitman called him his "master".
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Engraved drawing, 1878
Daguerreotype of Lidian Jackson Emerson and her son Edward Waldo Emerson, c. 1850
Emerson in 1859