Editor-in-chief | Jeffrey Goldberg |
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President | Bob Cohn |
Categories | Literature, political science, foreign affairs |
Frequency | 10 issues a year |
Total circulation (2018) | 478,534[1] |
Founder | |
Year founded | 1857 |
First issue | November 1, 1857 | (as The Atlantic Monthly)
Company | Emerson Collective |
Country | United States |
Based in | Washington, D.C.[2] |
Language | English |
Website | www |
ISSN | 1072-7825 |
The Atlantic is an American magazine and publisher. It was created in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts, and it was called The Atlantic Monthly, which was a literary and cultural commentary magazine that published famous writers' opinions on the abolition of slavery, education, and other important issues in politics. Its creators included Francis H. Underwood[3][4] and famous writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.[5][6] James Russell Lowell was its first editor.[7] It was also known for publishing literary works by leading writers.