The Nation
America's oldest continuously published weekly magazine, The Nation has maintained a consistent liberal/radical outlook since its founding, in 1865, by a group of abolitionists just ...
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In the following essay, Gannett discusses the place of Villard and The Nation in journalistic history.
Oswald Garrison Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: t...
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In the following essay, Thernstrom discusses Villard's pacifist beliefs and the effect they had on his editorship of The Nation.
‘History, if honest history continues to be written, will...
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In the following essays, Wreszin provides a brief overview and assessment of Villard's career and discusses the reform issues Villard advocated in The Nation.
In 1877 Henry Villard, returning t...
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In the following essay, Gannett examines the social and political impact of The Nation under Villard's editorship.
I doubt that there was ever another such journalistic heaven as was The Nation...
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The Nation
