ST. PAUL — In the spring of 1857 a handful of men, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, met at Boston’s Parker House Hotel to discuss the founding of a new magazine that would bill itself as a “journal of literature, politics, science, and the arts.” Later that November, The Atlantic Monthly premiered and has since become a venerable institution of thought and journalism. The Atlantic Monthly was the first to print stories from Mark Twain and Henry James, and it was the magazine Martin Luther King Jr. …
