160 Years of Atlantic Stories

A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.

Library of Congress

Review of the Kansas Usurpation

“It was scarcely opened, before it became, as might have been expected, the battleground for the opposing civilizations of the Union, to renew and fight out their long quarrel upon. From every quarter of the land settlers rushed thither, to take part in the wager of battle.”

J. A. Palmer / Library of Congress

Where Will It End?

In its second issue, The Atlantic urged Northerners to take a stand against slavery.