What It Means to Be an Enfranchised Woman
“The vote is an indefinable something that makes you part of the plan of the world. It means the same to women that it does to men.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Politics (1857-1907)
“The process by which a nation was created and unified came at last to an end, and a still more fateful process began which was to determine its place and example in the general history of the world.”
New York After Paris
"New York is trying to create for itself a new mind as well as a new body."
Village Improvement
“‘Will it be beautiful?’ should be asked as to any proposition for improvement, but it is not by any means the first question to be asked.”
An American Primer
“These States are rapidly supplying themselves with new words, called for by new occasions, new facts, new politics, new combinations.”
The Negro in the Regular Army
“The sterling characteristics of the colored soldiers, their loyalty to the service as shown by the statistics of desertion, and, above all, their splendid service in Cuba, should have entitled them to additional organizations.”
The Disarmament Trust
A New York Times editor spins a fable in which banking giant J.P. Morgan strikes a deal for world peace.
The Freedmen’s Bureau
“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth, — What shall be done with slaves?”
The Independence of the Executive
In an address to Princeton University, America’s 22nd and 24th president spoke about the history and political deliberations surrounding his former office.
The Yosemite National Park
“All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains.”