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Perspectives: The Atlantic's Writers at the NPG
It was the spring of 1857. America was divided, and war would soon come. In Boston, some of the country's most esteemed writers gathered to launch a magazine, one that would argue against slavery and for the union. They had much in common: a profound hatred of human bondage; an equally profound love for America’s deepest values; and patrician, tripartite names (Jame ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | written and recorded by Jeffrey Goldberg
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | written and recorded by Vann R. Newkirk II
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Nathaniel Hawthorne | written and recorded by Ann Hulbert
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Harriet Beecher Stowe | written and recorded by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Julia Ward Howe | written and recorded by Anna Deveare Smith
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Oliver Wendell Holmes | written and recorded by Cullen Murphy
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Frederick Douglass | written and recorded by George Packer
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William Dean Howells | written and recorded by James Fallows
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Louisa May Alcott | written and recorded by Adrienne LaFrance
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Mark Twain | written and recorded by James Parker
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Booker T. Washington | written and recorded by Adam Harris
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Rabindranath Tagore | written and recorded by Emma Green
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W. E. B. Du Bois | written and recorded by Adam Serwer
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Harry S. Truman | written and recorded by Yoni Appelbaum
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Asa Philip Randolph | written and recorded by Caitlin Dickerson
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Bayard Rustin | written and recorded by John McWhorter
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Carl Sandburg | written and recorded by Anne Applebaum
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Eudora Welty | written and recorded by Caitlin Flanagan
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Richard Wright | written and recorded by Gillian B. White
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Martin Luther King Jr. | written and recorded by Peter Wehner
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Stokely Carmichael | written and recorded by Clint Smith
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John Lewis | written and recorded by Ibram X. Kendi
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Ta-Nehisi Coates | written and recorded by Scott Stossel
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