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"One of my great joys as a journalist here is to spelunk into our physical
archive in search of treasures like Asa Gray’s review. And it has been a
particular frustration of mine that I could not share the joy with our readers.
So it is an enormous pleasure to let you know that we have finally made our
full archive—representing 165 years of
Atlantic journalism—available online.
Nearly 30,000 articles, reviews, short stories, and poems, published between
The Atlantic’s founding in 1857 and 1995, the year we launched our website (a
site that included, from its start, articles that originated both in print and
on the web), are now accessible to subscribers, researchers, students,
historians, and that blessed category, the incurably curious.
“The world is all gates, all opportunities,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of our
founders, said, and the gates to our magazine’s rich past are now open.
I hope that our readers will experience the same wonder I felt when I learned
that
The King and I, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, was birthed in the
pages of
The Atlantic, in the form of a memoir by Anna Leonowens, who taught
the Siamese King Mongkut’s 39 wives and concubines, as well as his 82 children.
Or when I discovered Felix Frankfurter’s defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, or the
rolling argument between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois on the
methodology of Black liberation, or Mark Twain’s first impressions of the
telephone, or one of Hemingway’s earliest short stories, or Rachel Carson’s
initial foray into nature writing, or Sylvia Plath’s best poems, or Robert
Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” (yes, first published in
The Atlantic)."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
