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Our Victorian Magazine Collection:  The Atlantic Monthly

Home > About Our Victorian Magazines > Atlantic Monthly The Atlantic Monthly was founded in Boston in 1857. Among its founders were such noted writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., James Russell Lowell (its first editor), John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - and Francis H. Underwood, who started it all. The magazine looked at politics both at home and abroad, and ran a variety of articles on travel topics, new technologies, biographical sketches (often contributed by its founding members and/or relating to their friends and family!), and nature pieces. Like most general interest magazines of the day, it was heavily loaded with fiction and poetry. The magazine passed through a variety of hands over the decades, but still exists today as The Atlantic. In 2004, it shifted from 12 to 10 issues per year and dropped the "Monthly" from its title. Full volumes of The Atlantic Monthly are available online at no cost. However, while the Atlantic website claims to offer "full archives" of its historic issues, those archives seem actually to be very limited, at least for non-subscribers. A quick check of a couple of issues from the 1800's produced only two articles on file for each issue. So if you'd like to download full volumes of this magazine, visit the Wikisource link below, which provides links to all the issues available on the Internet Archive. MORE INFORMATION: The Atlantic Monthly: Wikisource https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly This page links to scanned volumes of The Atlantic Monthly from 1857-1922, available on the Internet Archive. The Atlantic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/ The official website of The Atlantic. Back issues can be viewed here, but while the site claims to have "complete" archives, a look at a specific month (e.g., November 1862) turns up only two article links. To find complete volumes, use the Wikisource link above.

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