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Yesterday's Disruptors... Today

Yesterday's Disruptors... Today

with Jeffrey Goldberg

Since it was founded over a long lunch in Boston in 1857, The Atlantic magazine has featured presidents and poets, abolitionists and suffragists— men and women set on advancing The American Idea. This episode, Kim takes the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, on an ‘Atlantic alumni’ tour, stopping in front of a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. and a life-size painting of Mark Twain.

Their conversation previews an upcoming collaboration between The Atlantic and the National Portrait Gallery that will look at the portraits of yesterday’s disruptors through the lens of today.

photo of a man in glasses in a blue shirt with the DC skyline in the background

Jeffrey Goldberg

waist length portrait of a woman in a black dress

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) / Alanson Fisher (1807 - 1884) / Oil on canvas, 1853

Print on sepia toned paper of a bearded man

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) / Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) / Lithograph on paper, c. 1863-1882 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of E. Gerald Lamboley) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the country’s first private museums, was established in 1869 to promote art and American genius. In 2014 the Works from the Corcoran Collection were distributed to institutions in Washington, D.C.

woman in a lace dress with a book on her lap in a garden

Julia Ward Howe ( 1819–1910) / John Elliott, finished by William Henry Cotton / Oil on canvas, begun c. 1910, finished c. 1925 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; gift of Maud Howe Elliott to the Smithsonian Institution, 1933