Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine

To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine The Atlantic has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives.

As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy - just to name a few.

We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription.

when you’re reading some of the articles from long time ago you can see how much history is repeating itself. If only those that could change would not always make the same mistakes over and over again.

Religion

• Religion and Insanity
  (December 1857) by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
• The Persistence of Faith
  (February 1948) by Reinhold Neibuhr
• The Efficacy of Power
  (January 1959) by C. S. Lewis
• Among the Believers
  (July 1981) by V. S. Naipaul
• Kicking the Secularist Habit
  (March 2003) by David Brooks

Science

• Darwin on the Origin of Species
  (July 1860 ) by Asa Gray
• Mars
  (May 1895) by Percival Lowell
• In the Noon of Science
  (September 1912) by John Burroughs
• From Plato to Max Planck: The Philosophical Problems of Atomic Physics
  (November 1959) by Werner Heisenberg
• The Double Helix
  (January 1968) by James Watson

American Icons

• Thoreau
  (August 1862) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Emerson
  (December 1904) by Henry James Sr.
• Robert Frost, Man and Myth
  (November 1966) by James Dickey
• Marilyn Monroe
  (August 1973) by Norman Mailer
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  (April 1982) by Robert A. Caro
• American Everyman
  (November 2004) by Walter Kirn

Education

• The Standing of Scholarship in America
  (October 1909) by By Hugo Münsterberg
• Good-bye, Mr. Chips!
  (April 1934) by James Hilton
• Education for a Classless Society
  (May 1940) by James Bryant Conant
• What Is Teaching?
  (December 1944) by Jacques Barzun
• Death at an Early Age
  (September 1967) by Jonathan Kozol
• I.Q.
  (September 1971) by Richard Herrnstein
• Illiberal Education
  (March 1991) by Dinesh D’Souza

Politics

• American Civilization
  (April 1862) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Democracy and Efficiency
  (March 1901) by Woodrow Wilson
• Catholic and Patriot
  (May 1927) by Alfred E. Smith
• The Decline of Western Democracy
  (February 1955) by Walter Lippmann
• Roosevelt Through European Eyes
  (July 1955) by Isaiah Berlin
• The Runaway Presidency
  (November 1973) by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• No Apparent Motive
  (November 2002) by P. J. O’Rourke

Technology and Innovation

• The Age of Photography
  (June 1859) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• A Telephonic Conversation
  (June 1880) by Mark Twain
• The New Talking Machines
  (February 1889) by Philip G. Hubert Jr.
• Life As We Know It
  (July 1924) by Arthur D. Little
• Television and Radio
  (May 1937) by Gilbert Seldes
• As We May Think
  (July 1945) by Vannevar Bush
• Moving Toward the Clonal Man
  (May 1971) by James D. Watson
• Living With a Computer
  (July 1982) by James Fallows

Arts and Letters

• Shakespeare
  (September 1904) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Recollections of an Atlantic Editorship
  (November 1907) by William Dean Howells
• Highbrow
  (July 1942) by Virginia Woolf
• What a Writer Seeks
  (June 1953) by Albert Camus
• Making and Judging Poetry
  (January 1957) by W. H. Auden

Idealism and Practicality

• Awkward Imperialists
  (May 1930) by Reinhold Niebuhr
• The New Isolationism
  (May 1952) by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• Foreign Policy and the Crisis Mentality
  (January 1967) by George McGovern
• What Should We Do In The World?
  (October 1989) by Stanley Hoffman
• Beyond American Empire
  (July/August 2003) by Robert D. Kaplan

Women’s Empowerment

• Meditations on Votes for Women
  (October 1914) by Samuel McChord Crothers
• Talent, Opportunity, and Female Aspirations
  (June 1926) by Faith Fairfield
• Equality of Opportunity and Pay
  (May and June 1938) by Virginia Woolf
• Science: Careers for Women
  (October 1957) by Helen Hill Miller
• Desperate Housewives
  (June 1961) by Nora Johnson
• Feminism’s Unfinished Business
  (November 1997) by Katha Pollitt

Nature and Environment

• Walking
  (June 1862) by Henry David Thoreau
• River Driftwood
  (October 1881) by Sarah Orne Jewett
• The American Forests
  (August 1897) by John Muir
• The Divine Soil
  (April 1908) by John Burroughs
• The Sound of Trees
  (August 1915) by Robert Frost
• The Force That Drives the Flower
  (November 1973) by Annie Dillard

Markets and Morals

• Monopoly on the March
  (March 1881) by Henry Demarest Lloyd
• The Resilience of Capitalism
  (May 1932) by John Maynard Keynes
• Liberty, Happiness… and the Economy
  (June 1967) by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The Age of Social Transformation
  (November 1994) by Peter F. Drucker
• Building Wealth
  (June 1999) by Lester C. Thurow

Civil Rights and Black Identity

• Liberty and Equality for All
  (December 1866) by Frederick Douglass
• Self-Reliance
  (September 1896) by Booker T. Washington
• The Veil of Self-Consciousness
  (August 1897) by W. E. B. Du Bois
• Letter from Birmingham Jail
  (August 1963) by Martin Luther King Jr.

Politics and Presidents

• Lincoln for President
  (October 1860) by James Russell Lowell
• How Books Become Immortal
  (September 1891) by Woodrow Wilson
• What College Graduates Owe America
  (August 1894) by Theodore Roosevelt
• The Purpose of Poetry
  (February 1964) by John F. Kennedy

The full articles with short descriptions, excerpts and links to the full text together with summaries for each area of interest is available at The Atlantic web site.