Preface
Beginnings. Forging traditions: James Russell Lowell
John Brown's war
The Battle of the Hundred Pines
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Dueling visions: Louis Agassiz and Asa Gray
Reconstructions: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and Jr.
James and Annie Fields: the business of hospitality
Harriet Beecher Stowe tests the magazine
Battle of the books
Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, and a changing magazine
William Dean Howells: democracy at work
John Greenleaf Whittier's seventieth birthday
Bret Harte to the lions
Straddling The Atlantic: Henry James
Clarence King, scholar-adventurer
The gilded eighties
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, guardian at the gate
In the wake of Louis Agassiz
A magazine in decline and ascension
From the far East to Mars: Lafcadio Hearn and Percival Lowell
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois
Progressive politics under Walter Hines page
From sea to shining sea
A state of uncertainty
Ellery Sedgwick: politics and poets
A window on the war: Atlantic writers and World War I
America's War
The turbulent Twenties, I

The turbulent Twenties, II
Across the decades.