The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1857 in Boston as The Atlantic Monthly, it began as a literary and cultural magazine that publish
Cover of the September 2020 issue
James Russell Lowell, the first editor of The Atlantic
In February 1862, The Atlantic was first to publish the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The At
The William Dean Howells House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was designed by his wife Elinor Mead, and it was occupied by Howells and his family from 1873 to 1878.
Howells in his home office, before 1902