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The North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale was an United States journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature....
 and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
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The North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Founded in Boston in 1815 by journalist Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (journalist)

Nathan Hale was an United States journalist and newspaper publisher who introduced regular editorial comment as a newspaper feature....
 and others, it was published continuously until 1940, when publication was suspended due to World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Publication subsequently resumed in 1964 at Cornell College
Cornell College

Cornell College is a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Mount Vernon, Iowa. Originally called the Iowa Conference Seminary, the school was founded in 1853 by Reverend Samuel M....
 (Iowa). Since 1968 the University of Northern Iowa
University of Northern Iowa

The University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is a state-supported university that offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Administration , Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college....
 (Cedar Falls) has been home to the publication. Nineteenth-century archives are freely available via Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
's Making of America.

Until the founding of the Atlantic Monthly in 1857, the Review was the foremost publication in New England
New England

New England is a region of the United States located in the northeastern corner of the country, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and New York State, and consisting of the modern U.S....
 and probably the entire United States. For all its lasting impact on American literature and institutions, however, the Review had no more than 3000 subscribers in its heyday.

The Review's first editor, William Tudor (1779-1830)
William Tudor (1779-1830)

William Tudor was a leading citizen of Boston, sometime literary man, and cofounder of the North American Review and the Boston Athenaeum....
, and other founders had been members of Boston's Anthology Club
Anthology Club

The Anthology Club, or Anthology Society, was organized in 1804 in Boston, Massachusetts by the Rev. William Emerson, father of Ralph Waldo Emerson....
, and launched The North American Review to foster a genuine American culture. In its first few years it was published poetry, fiction, and miscellaneous essays on a bi-monthly schedule, but in 1818 it became a quarterly with more focused contents intent on improving society and on elevating culture. The Review promoted the improvement of public education and administration, with reforms in secondary schools, sound professional training of doctors and lawyers, rehabilitation of prisoners at the state penitentiary, and government by educated experts.

Its editors and contributors included several literary and political New Englanders as John Adams
John Adams

John Adams was an Politics of the United States and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States , after being the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States for two terms....
, George Bancroft
George Bancroft

George Bancroft was an United States historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level....
, Nathaniel Bowditch
Nathaniel Bowditch

Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried onboard every commissioned U.S....
, William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant was an United States romantic poetry, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post....
, Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass

Lewis Cass was an United States military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, and a United States Senate representing Michigan....
, Edward T. Channing, Caleb Cushing
Caleb Cushing

Caleb Cushing was an United States statesman and diplomat who served as a United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts and Attorney General of the United States under President of the United States Franklin Pierce....
, Richard Henry Dana
Richard Henry Dana

Richard Henry Dana may refer to:*Richard Henry Dana, Sr. , American poet and author*Richard Henry Dana, Jr. , American lawyer and author, son of Richard Henry Dana Sr....
, Alexander Hill Everett
Alexander Hill Everett

Alexander Hill Everett was a noted American diplomatist, politician, and Boston man of letters. His brother was Edward Everett.Everett was born in Boston, Massachusetts to the Rev....
, Edward Everett
Edward Everett

Edward Everett was a Whig Party politician from Massachusetts. Everett was elected to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and also served as President of Harvard University, United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to United Kingdom, and Governor of Massachusetts before being appointed...
, Jared Sparks
Jared Sparks

Jared Sparks was an United States historian, educator, and Unitarianism minister. He served as President of Harvard University of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853....
, George Ticknor
George Ticknor

George Ticknor , was an United States academician, specializing in the subject areas of linguistics and literature. He is known for his scholarly work on the history and Literary criticism of Spanish literature....
, Gulian C. Verplanck, Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests....
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Between 1862 and 1872, its co-editors were James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was an United States Romanticism poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets....
 and Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Eliot Norton

Charles Eliot Norton, was a leading United States author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a militant idealist, a progressive social reformer, and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States....
. Henry Adams
Henry Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an United States novelist, journalist, historian and academia. He is best-known for his autobiography book, The Education of Henry Adams....
 also later served as an editor. Although the Review did not often publish fiction, it did serialize The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review. This dark comedy, one of the masterpieces of James' final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of his widowed fianc?e's supposedly wayward son....
 by Henry James
Henry James

Henry James, Order of Merit , son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an United States author....
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More recent contributors of note include Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez

Barry Holstun Lopez is an United States author, essayist, and fiction whose work is known for its environmental and social concerns.Lopez was born in Port Chester, New York and raised in Southern California and New York City....
, Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff

Maxine Chernoff was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year of 1952 in literature, where she grew up, and attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.She is an United States novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor....
, Jim Krusoe
Jim Krusoe

Jim Krusoe is an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His stories and poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, BOMB, Iowa Review, Field, North American Review, American Poetry Review, and Santa Monica Review, which he founded in 1988....
, Joshua Henkin, Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is an United States author best known for his short stories, Play , and for his work as a bioethicist....
, Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson is an American novelist and writer of short stories.Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, but grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He earned a masters degree in English from the University of Utah....
 and William Tester
William Tester

William Tester is an American short story writer and novelist. He was raised on a cattle ranch in Florida and is a graduate of Columbia University and Syracuse University ....
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The current editors are Grant Tracey and Vince Gotera.

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