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Atlantic writers reckon with America's history of racial plunder.
Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a commemoration of his life and work—and a reflection on the reality of today's America.
A guide to life on a warming planet, featuring the biggest ideas and most vital information to understand Earth’s changing climate, climate policy, and more.
The signing of the 19th Amendment in 1920 gave women the right to vote, but the complex fight for suffrage didn’t end there.
From 2018 through the first year of the pandemic, the most experienced teachers in America’s education system reflected on their careers, their schools, and the history they’ve witnessed.
Making sense of the dawn of a new machine age.
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Contemporary Atlantic writers reflect on 25 voices from the archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.
“The possibility of recurrent epidemics, perhaps of increasing virulence, even of another pandemic, must be faced.”
March 1944 IssueA series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
June 2000 Issue“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.”
January 1948 IssueFive years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.
July 2019 Issue“It is as if the experience of being in love could only be one of two things: a superhuman ecstasy, the way of reaching heaven on earth and in pairs; or a psychopathic condition to be treated by specialists.”
May 1938 Issue“There have been children’s stories and folk-tales ever since man first learned to speak. Children’s books, however, are a late growth of literature.”
January 1888 Issue“If there are such things as ghosts, why don’t they haunt the Americans?”
October 1946 IssueCoates, the author of Between the World and Me, wrote “The Case for Reparations” as a national correspondent for The Atlantic.
Woolf was a novelist and a pioneer of literary modernism.
Before writing Silent Spring, Carson made her mark as an environmental journalist with the Atlantic essay “Undersea.”
White was an essayist, a novelist, and a grammarian. His Atlantic essay “Death of a Pig” was a nonfiction prototype for Charlotte’s Web.
West’s reporting on her travels through the Balkans, published in The Atlantic in 1941, was compiled in the book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
One of the most popular writers of his time, Dickens was the author of works including A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities.
Smith is an Atlantic contributing writer, a playwright, and an actor.
Auden published his first poem for The Atlantic in 1939, the year he emigrated from England to the United States.
Vonnegut was the author of 14 novels, as well as numerous short-story collections, plays, and works of nonfiction.
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