"The Nation" Celebrates Its 150th Anniversary

In our pre-institute reading, New York Intellect, Thomas Bender speaks of the rise of a "metropolitan sensibility" and ends with a discussion of E.L. Godkin's founding of The Nation in 1865.  As this article highlights, The Nation is now celebrating its 150th anniversary.  The magazine is offering a free pdf of the entire issue, which includes remarkable essays from the past and present.  I recommend scrolling down and reading Godkin's editorial in response to the Haymarket Trial ("The Execution of the Anarchists"). William Dean Howells, of course, penned A Hazard of New Fortunes as his own response to the judgement condemning 7 anarchists to death by hanging.The Nationhttp://www.thenation.com/article/200785/150th-anniversary-issue