Perspectives: The Atlantic's Writers at the NPG

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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 profou...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

01:33 | National Portrait Gallery

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

01:31 | National Portrait Gallery

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

01:36 | National Portrait Gallery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

01:37 | National Portrait Gallery

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Julia Ward Howe

02:26 | National Portrait Gallery

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

01:42 | National Portrait Gallery

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Frederick Douglass

01:55 | National Portrait Gallery

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William Dean Howells

01:47 | National Portrait Gallery

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Louisa May Alcott

01:43 | National Portrait Gallery

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Mark Twain

01:41 | National Portrait Gallery

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Booker T. Washington

01:35 | National Portrait Gallery

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Rabindranath Tagore

01:31 | National Portrait Gallery

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W. E. B. Du Bois

01:33 | National Portrait Gallery

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Harry S. Truman

01:55 | National Portrait Gallery

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Asa Philip Randolph

01:57 | National Portrait Gallery

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Bayard Rustin

01:39 | National Portrait Gallery

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Carl Sandburg

01:32 | National Portrait Gallery

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Eudora Welty

02:00 | National Portrait Gallery

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Richard Wright

01:47 | National Portrait Gallery

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Martin Luther King Jr.

01:38 | National Portrait Gallery

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Venue

Smithsonian Portrait Gallery

Washington DC

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