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73-584: The first mention of Suzak village is known from a map of Eugene Schuyler "Map of the Khanates of Bukhara , Khiva , and Kokand and Part of Russian Turkestan" of 1875. In 1998 a catastrophic flood of the river Kögart destroyed around 1,000 dwellings in Suzak. Suzak, in addition, has anomalously high "Against All" voter turnout. Yet most anomalous are the results from Kara-Suu and Suzak both. These districts are not urban, being most rural, and are located along

146-404: A biweekly format to a larger monthly publication. On September 23, 2024, The Nation endorsed Kamala Harris for the 2024 United States presidential election but with criticism on foreign politics, especially in regard to the 2023 Gaza war . On October 25, 2024, the magazine published an article, by the magazine's interns, criticizing this endorsement. Following Donald Trump 's victory in

219-554: A column criticizing Samuel Gompers and trade unions for being complicit in the war machine of the First World War , The Nation was briefly suspended from the US mail. The magazine's financial problems in the early 1940s prompted Kirchwey to sell her individual ownership of the magazine in 1943, creating a nonprofit organization, Nation Associates, out of the money generated from a recruiting drive of sponsors. This organization

292-787: A contributor to The Nation magazine. He continued to write for The Nation until the end of his life. In September 1863 a Russian naval squadron made a long stay in New York harbor, hoping to escape capture by the British Navy in the event of a war between Britain and Russia over the Polish Uprising of 1863. Schuyler met some of the officers of the Russian flagship, the Alexander Nevsky , which inspired him to study Russian. He learned Russian well enough to translate

365-480: A correspondent of the London Daily News and The New York Times . Godkin sought to establish what one sympathetic commentator later characterized as "an organ of opinion characterized in its utterance by breadth and deliberation, an organ which should identify itself with causes, and which should give its support to parties primarily as representative of these causes." In its "founding prospectus"

438-671: A diplomatic post in the State Department. The State Department took three years to consider his application, and then offered him the position of consul in Moscow, then the second city of Russia. En route to his post, Schuyler stopped in Baden-Baden to meet Turgenev, who gave him a letter of introduction to Lev Tolstoi . Schuyler began his diplomatic tour in Moscow in August 1867. In the spring of 1868 he made his first trip to

511-613: A key role in publicizing Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria in 1876 during the April Uprising . He was the first American Minister to Romania and Serbia , and U.S. Minister to Greece . Schuyler was born in Ithaca , New York , on February 26, 1840. He was the son of Matilda ( née Scribner) Schuyler and George W. Schuyler , a drugstore owner in Ithaca, New York , who later was elected New York State Treasurer and served as

584-542: A member of the New York State Assembly . Schuyler's siblings included Walter S. Schuyler , a U.S. Army brigadier general. His sister Martha was the mother of Major General Walter S. Grant . His father's ancestors, of Dutch descent, included Philip Schuyler , a general in George Washington 's army and a U.S. Senator . His mother was the half-sister of Charles Scribner , the founder of

657-512: A new weekly political magazine. Edwin Lawrence Godkin , who had been considering starting such a magazine for some time, agreed and so became the first editor of The Nation . Wendell Phillips Garrison , son of The Liberator ' s editor/publisher William Lloyd Garrison , was Literary Editor from 1865 to 1906. Its founding publisher was Joseph H. Richards; the editor was Godkin, an immigrant from Ireland who had formerly worked as

730-531: A political appointee. Schuyler was able to obtain a post as consul to the Russian port of Reval (now Tallinn ). In November, 1869, President Grant appointed a new Minister to Russia, Andrew Curtin , a former Governor of Pennsylvania who knew nothing of Russia. Curtin was impressed by Schuyler and appointed him as the secretary of the American legation in St. Petersburg , a post which Schuyler held until 1876. Schuyler

803-559: A really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred." In the first year of publication, one of the magazine's regular features was The South as It Is , dispatches from a tour of the war-torn region by John Richard Dennett, a recent Harvard graduate and a veteran of the Port Royal Experiment . Dennett interviewed Confederate veterans, freed slaves, agents of

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876-751: A weekly literary supplement for his daily newspaper the New York Evening Post . The offices of the magazine were moved to the Evening Post ' s headquarters at 210 Broadway. The New York Evening Post would later morph into a tabloid , the New York Post , a left-leaning afternoon tabloid, under owner Dorothy Schiff from 1939 to 1976. Since then, it has been a conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch , while The Nation became known for its left-wing ideology. In 1900, Henry Villard's son, Oswald Garrison Villard , inherited

949-558: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Eugene Schuyler Eugene Schuyler (February 26, 1840 – July 16, 1890) was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was one of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi . He was the first American diplomat to visit Russian Central Asia , and as American Consul General in Istanbul he played

1022-614: Is published by its namesake owner, The Nation Company, L.P., at 520 8th Ave New York, NY 10018. It has news bureaus in Washington, D.C. , London , and South Africa , with departments covering architecture , art, corporations, defense , environment , films, legal affairs , music, peace and disarmament , poetry, and the United Nations . Circulation peaked at 187,000 in 2006 but dropped to 145,000 in print by 2010, although digital subscriptions had risen to over 15,000. By 2021,

1095-536: Is sustained in part by a group of more than 30,000 donors called Nation Associates, who donate funds to the periodical above and beyond their annual subscription fees. This program accounts for 30% of the total revenue for the magazine. An annual cruise also generates $ 200,000 for the magazine. Since late 2012, the Nation Associates program has been called Nation Builders. In 2023, the magazine had approximately 91,000 subscribers, roughly 80% of whom pay for

1168-536: The American Civil War , arguing that a stable currency was necessary to restore the economic stability of the nation. Closely related to this was the publication's advocacy of the elimination of protective tariffs in favor of lower prices of consumer goods associated with a free trade system. The magazine would stay at Newspaper Row for 90 years. In 1881, newspaperman-turned-railroad-baron Henry Villard acquired The Nation and converted it into

1241-469: The Freedmen's Bureau , and ordinary people he met by the side of the road. Among the causes supported by the publication in its earliest days was civil service reform—moving the basis of government employment from a political patronage system to a professional bureaucracy based upon meritocracy . The Nation also was preoccupied with the reestablishment of a sound national currency in the years after

1314-760: The PhD degree from an American university. The topic of his dissertation is up for debate, though one theory is that it was titled "Wedgwood on English Philology," later published in Bibliotheca Sacra in 1862. In 1860, Schuyler became an assistant to Noah Porter , a prominent linguistician and literary figure, in the revision of Webster's Dictionary , the first dictionary of American English. In 1862, Schuyler began to study law at Yale Law School , and received his law degree, in 1863, from Columbia Law School . He began practicing law in New York, but did not find it very interesting. Instead he began to write, becoming

1387-652: The Serbia-Turkish War . Schuyler invited MacGahan to accompany him on his journey to Bulgaria. Schuyler and MacGahan left for Bulgaria on July 23. They were joined by a correspondent of Kölnische Zeitung German journalist Karl Schneider (1854–1945) and by a second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople Georgian prince Aleksi Tsereteli (Aleksei Tseretelev) and Turkish and Bulgarian translator Petar Dimitrov, instructor at

1460-512: The right . In the 1950s, The Nation was attacked as "pro-communist" because of its advocacy of détente with the expansionist Soviet Union of Joseph Stalin , and its criticism of McCarthyism . One of the magazine's writers, Louis Fischer , resigned from the magazine afterwards, claiming The Nation ' s foreign coverage was too pro-Soviet. Despite this, Diana Trilling pointed out that Kirchwey did allow anti-Soviet writers, such as herself, to contribute material critical of Russia to

1533-541: The American Robert College in Constantinople. They spent three weeks documenting the atrocities which had taken place at villages in southern Bulgaria three months earlier. After visiting a number of towns and villages, Schuyler stated in his report to the U.S. Minister to Turkey, Horace Maynard: " It is very difficult to estimate the number of Bulgarians who were killed during the few days that

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1606-844: The Foreign Relations of the United States – 1874 , and translated into Russian by the St. Petersburg press. His report had been critical of the treatment of the Tatars by the Russian General Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman . With the exception of the treatment of the Tatars, Schuyler was favorable toward the Russian presence in Central Asia. "On the whole, the Russian influence is beneficial in Central Asia," he wrote, "not only for

1679-659: The Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan border. Because these areas lack significant population, widespread higher education, or any notable Russian populations, it appears that "the established explanatory model fails to fully account for what happened in these two areas. Instead of demographic characteristics, we must instead take into account the recent political history in order to understand why the people in Kara-Suu and Suzak might have voted in such high numbers 'against all.'". This Jalal-Abad region location article

1752-647: The Ottoman Army, with the massacre of civilians. Schuyler learned of these massacres from the Bulgarian students and faculty of Robert College in Constantinople. Vague reports of the massacres had first been printed in the British press on May 6. American Faculty members from Robert College collected more information and sent them to the British Minister to Turkey, with no result. They then sent

1825-527: The Ottoman Government, which protested to the U.S. Government. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish was also displeased with Schuyler, since Schuyler had acted without his knowledge or consent. He discussed withdrawing Schuyler from Turkey, but decided against it, since he did not want to appear to be unsympathetic to the Bulgarians. When a new president, Rutherford Hayes , took office, Schuyler

1898-642: The Turkish government that, because of the state of public opinion, it could not take the side of Turkey. The Russian Government, moved by Pan-Slavic sentiment and a desire to help the Orthodox Christian Bulgarians, declared war on the Ottoman Empire and invaded Bulgaria in 1877. The Turkish Army was defeated and Bulgaria was liberated from Ottoman rule in 1878. Schuyler's role in the liberation of Bulgaria greatly displeased

1971-698: The United States prepared to recognize the independence of Romania and Serbia . In Romania, he studied Romanian and became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. On July 7, 1882, he was concurrently appointed the Minister Resident/Counsul General to Romania, Serbia, and Greece, while becoming a resident in Athens. He presented his credentials to Romania on September 8, 1882, to Serbia on November 10, 1882, and to Greece on January 9, 1883. In July 1884, he

2044-553: The United States to enter World War II to resist fascism , and after the US entered the war, the publication supported the American war effort. It also supported the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima . During the late 1940s and again in the early 1950s, a merger was discussed by Kirchwey (later Carey McWilliams ) and The New Republic ' s Michael Straight . The two magazines were very similar at that time—both were left of center, The Nation further left than TNR ; both had circulations around 100,000, although TNR ' s

2117-692: The Urals. His trip had taken eight months (he had told the State Department he would be gone only three months), but he brought back a wealth of geographical information. Schuyler wrote extensively about his trip for the National Geographic Society in the United States, and he also wrote a long report for the State Department. He was embarrassed when his confidential report was published in December 1876 in Papers Relating to

2190-618: The anniversary issue, President Barack Obama said: In an era of instant, 140-character news cycles and reflexive toeing of the party line, it's incredible to think of the 150-year history of The Nation . It's more than a magazine—it's a crucible of ideas forged in the time of Emancipation, tempered through depression and war and the civil-rights movement, and honed as sharp and relevant as ever in an age of breathtaking technological and economic change. Through it all, The Nation has exhibited that great American tradition of expanding our moral imaginations, stoking vigorous dissent, and simply taking

2263-410: The archives, and new essays by frequent contributors like Eric Foner , Noam Chomsky , E. L. Doctorow , Toni Morrison , Rebecca Solnit , and Vivian Gornick ; a book-length history of the magazine by D. D. Guttenplan (which The Times Literary Supplement called "an affectionate and celebratory affair"); events across the country; and a relaunched website. In a tribute to The Nation , published in

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2336-589: The bodies, and to prevent a pestilence. Ahmed Aga, who commanded at the massacre, has been decorated and promoted to the rank of Yuz-bashi   ... Schuyler's official report, and MacGahan's newspaper reporting, combined to cause a sensation in the British press. The Government of Benjamin Disraeli tried to minimize the massacres, saying that the Bulgarians were equally responsible, but these claims were refuted by Schuyler and MacGahan's eyewitness reports. When Russia threatened war against Turkey, Britain told

2409-529: The church and churchyard, where fully a thousand half-decayed forms were still to be seen, filling the enclosure in a heap several feet high, arms, feet, and heads protruding from the stones which had vainly been thrown there to hide them, and poisoning all the air. Since my visit, by orders of the Mutessarif, the Kaimakam of Tatar Bazardjik was sent to Batak, with some lime to aid in the decomposition of

2482-752: The conduct of American diplomacy. His book American Diplomacy and the Furtherance of Commerce was published by Scribner's in 1886, and according to his death notice in The New York Times , the publication of the book "prevented him from becoming a member of the permanent staff of the State Department, where his experience would have made him especially useful." In 1889, the Administration of President Benjamin Harrison nominated him as First Assistant Secretary of State . The nomination

2555-426: The disturbances lasted, but I am inclined to put 15,000 for the districts that I have named." Schuyler gave a vivid account of what he saw at the village of Batak , three months after the massacres had taken place: ...   On every side were human bones, skulls, ribs, and even complete skeletons, heads of girls still adorned with braids of long hair, bones of children, skeletons still encased in clothing. Here

2628-515: The edge of Central Asia, traveling with a Russian merchant, Vasilii Alekseich , by steamboat down the Volga to Samara , then by carriage to Orenburg , which at the time was the base for Russian military operations The Russians had occupied the Khanate of Bukhara in 1866 and were advancing toward Samarkand . In 1868, Schuyler was a guest of Tolstoi for a week at his estate at Yasnaya Polyana , at

2701-430: The editors of The Nation professed that "Bernie Sanders and his supporters are bending the arc of history toward justice. Theirs is an insurgency, a possibility, and a dream that we proudly endorse." On June 15, 2019, Heuvel stepped down as editor; D. D. Guttenplan , the editor-at-large, took her place. On March 2, 2020, The Nation again endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for President . In their reasoning,

2774-404: The editors of The Nation professed: "As we find ourselves on a hinge of history—a generation summoned to the task of redeeming our democracy and restoring our republic—no one ever has to wonder what Bernie Sanders stands for." On February 23, 2022, The Nation named Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara its new president. In December 2023, Sunkara announced the magazine would be switching from

2847-503: The election, The Nation ran an opinion piece attributing the result to widespread support for "anti-system politics" among American society, drawing parallels between Harris' campaign and that of Hillary Clinton in 2016. Print ad pages declined by 5% from 2009 to 2010, while digital advertising rose 32.8% from 2009 to 2010. Advertising accounts for 10% of total revenue for the magazine, while circulation totals 60%. The Nation has lost money in all but three or four years of operation and

2920-409: The famous American publishing house. At the age of fifteen, Schuyler entered Yale College , where he studied languages, literature and philosophy. He graduated with honors in 1859 and was a member of Skull and Bones . In 1861, Schuyler earned a PhD in psychology and philosophy at Yale, and in doing, along with Arthur Williams Wright and James Morris Whiton , became the first Americans to earn

2993-480: The founders of The Nation would have understood the term, from a belief in a smaller and more restricted government to a belief in a larger and less restricted government. Villard sold the magazine in 1935. Maurice Wertheim , the new owner, sold it in 1937 to Freda Kirchwey , who served as editor from 1933 to 1955. Almost every editor of The Nation from Villard's time to the 1970s was looked at for "subversive" activities and ties. When Albert Jay Nock published

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3066-522: The inhabitants, but to the world, and it certainly is greatly to our interest that a counterpoise should exist there against the extension of English domination in Asia. Having once taken possession of the country, it will be almost impossible for the Russians, with any fairness to the natives, to withdraw from it." [1] Schuyler wrote a two-volume book about his travels in Central Asia. The book, Turkestan,

3139-519: The island of Isola di San Michele in Venice. On July 12, 1877, Schuyler was married to Gertrude Wallace "Gert" King (b. 1836) in Paris. She was the daughter of the late President of Columbia University Charles King , niece of former U.S. Representative and New York Governor John Alsop King , and granddaughter of both Rufus King and Nicholas Low . Her sister, Mary Alsop King Waddington ,

3212-471: The magazine and the Evening Post , and sold off the latter in 1918. Thereafter, he remade The Nation into a current affairs publication and gave it an anti- classical liberal orientation. As the 1932 U.S. presidential election approached, the Nation saw no real choice between Hoover and Roosevelt, and it urged readers to vote for Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas. Oswald Villard wrote "So I insist,

3285-611: The magazine from Kirstein in 1965. During the 1950s, Paul Blanshard , a former associate editor, served as The Nation ' s special correspondent in Uzbekistan . His most famous writing was a series of articles attacking the Catholic Church in America as a dangerous, powerful, and undemocratic institution. On the eve of the 1968 U.S. presidential election the magazine argued that the choice between Nixon and Humphrey

3358-586: The magazine from the Storrow family. In 1985, he sold it to Arthur L. Carter , who had made a fortune as a founding partner of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill . In 1991, The Nation sued the Department of Defense for restricting free speech by limiting Gulf War coverage to press pools . However, the issue was found moot in Nation Magazine v. United States Department of Defense , because

3431-519: The magazine published a poem entitled "How-To" by Anders Carlson-Wee which was written in the voice of a homeless man and used black vernacular . This led to criticism from writers such as Roxane Gay because Carlson-Wee is white. The Nation ' s two poetry editors, Stephanie Burt and Carmen Giménez Smith , issued an apology for publishing the poem, the first such action ever taken by the magazine. The apology itself became an object of criticism also. Poet and Nation columnist Katha Pollitt called

3504-447: The magazine wrote that the publication would have "seven main objects" with the first being "discussion of the topics of the day, and, above all, of legal, economical, and constitutional questions, with greater accuracy and moderation than are now to be found in the daily press." The Nation pledged to "not be the organ of any party, sect or body" but rather to "make an earnest effort to bring to discussion of political and social questions

3577-557: The magazine's arts section. During McCarthyism (the Second Red Scare), The Nation was banned from several school libraries in New York City and Newark, and a Bartlesville, Oklahoma , librarian, Ruth Brown , was fired from her job in 1950, after a citizens committee complained she had given shelf space to The Nation . In 1955, George C. Kirstein replaced Kirchway as magazine owner. James J. Storrow Jr. bought

3650-463: The man who votes for either Hoover or Roosevelt is the one who is throwing away his vote... He is again postponing the peaceful revolution which Woodrow Wilson said in 1912 was on the horizon." The magazine did, however, endorse Roosevelt in the next three elections. Oswald Villard welcomed the New Deal and supported the nationalization of industries—thus reversing the meaning of " liberalism " as

3723-587: The many curious things Schuyler found in Russian Turkestan is worth mentioning the figure of the iskatchi as it is/was frequent in Wales, (Great Britain), the person sprinkling salt and bread over a corpse at a funeral and eating later such bread to clean the deceased man of his sins, sometimes for a fee. The Nation The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It

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3796-459: The novel of Ivan Turgenev , Fathers and Sons , which was published in 1867, the first translation of Turgenev to appear in the United States. The same year Schuyler studied Finnish , and completed the first American translation of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala . The translate had been begun by John Addison Porter , a professor at Yale who died in 1866. In 1864, Schuyler applied for

3869-499: The print magazine. Adding sales from newsstands, The Nation had a total circulation of 96,000 copies per issue in 2021, earning the majority of its revenue from subscriptions and donations, rather than print advertising. Since its creation, The Nation has published significant works of American poetry , including works by Hart Crane , Eli Siegel , Elizabeth Bishop , and Adrienne Rich , as well as W. S. Merwin , Pablo Neruda , Denise Levertov , and Derek Walcott . In 2018,

3942-582: The reports to the correspondents of The Times and the London Daily News . The London Daily News published its account on June 23, 1876. It caused an immediate sensation in London. The Bulgarian atrocities were discussed in Parliament on June 26, and the opposition Liberal Party demanded a full investigation. The Conservative government of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli agreed to investigate

4015-619: The reports. The British Government appointed a second secretary at their embassy in Istanbul, Walter Baring, to conduct the investigation. Fearing a cover-up, the faculty members of Robert College asked the American Minister to Turkey, Horace Maynard , to conduct his own investigation. Maynard gave the task to Schuyler. Schuyler prepared to travel to Bulgaria to investigate the reports. By chance, Schuyler's friend from Russia, Januarius MacGahan , arrived in Constantinople to cover

4088-564: The time to think through our country's challenges anew. If I agreed with everything written in any given issue of the magazine, it would only mean that you are not doing your jobs. But whether it is your commitment to a fair shot for working Americans, or equality for all Americans, it is heartening to know that an American institution dedicated to provocative, reasoned debate and reflection in pursuit of those ideals can continue to thrive. On January 14, 2016, The Nation endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for President . In their reasoning,

4161-474: The time when Tolstoi was finishing War and Peace . He helped Tolstoi rearrange his library, and went hunting with him. Tolstoi, who was interested in public education in the United States, asked Schuyler for copies of American primers and school textbooks. Schuyler received Tolstoi's permission to translate his novel The Cossacks into English. In 1869, the new Administration of President Ulysses Grant removed Schuyler from his post in Moscow and replaced him with

4234-666: The total for both print and digital combined was 96,000. The Nation was established on July 6, 1865, at 130 Nassau Street (" Newspaper Row ") in Manhattan . Its founding coincided with the closure of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator , also in 1865, after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ; a group of abolitionists, led by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted , desired to found

4307-593: The unbridled rule of fanatical despots." Schuyler left Russia in 1876. He tried unsuccessfully to be named Minister to Turkey, but that position went to a political appointee of the Grant administration and he was given the position once more of the secretary of the legation, and also of consul general. He arrived in Istanbul on July 6, 1876. Two months after earlier an uprising against Turkish rule had taken place in Bulgaria . The uprising had been repressed by force by

4380-423: The war ended before the case was heard. In 1995, Victor Navasky bought the magazine and, in 1996, became publisher. In 1995, Katrina vanden Heuvel succeeded Navasky as editor of The Nation , and in 2005, as publisher. In 2015, The Nation celebrated its 150th anniversary with a documentary film by Academy Award–winning director Barbara Kopple ; a 268-page special issue featuring pieces of art and writing from

4453-431: Was a house the floor of which was white with the ashes and charred bones of thirty persons burned alive there. Here was the spot where the village notable Trandafil was spitted on a pike and then roasted, and where he is now buried; there was a foul hole full of decomposing bodies; here a mill dam filled with swollen corpses; here the school house, where 200 women and children had taken refuge there were burned alive, and here

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4526-706: Was a writer who was married to the Prime Minister of France William Henry Waddington . Mount Schuyler on Graham Land in Antarctica is named after Eugene Schuyler "who investigated the crushing of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 and co-authored the draft decisions of the subsequent 1876 Constantinople Conference ." Streets in the Bulgarian cities of Sofia , Plovdiv , Varna and Panagyurishte are named after him. Between

4599-403: Was able to combine his diplomatic duties with scholarship and travel. He began writing a major biography of Peter the Great , and frequented the meetings of the Russian Geographic Society in St. Petersburg. In 1873, he was one of the first foreigners invited to visit Russia's new conquests in Central Asia. Schuyler left St. Petersburg by train on March 23, 1873, and traveled first to Saratov. He

4672-508: Was accompanied by an American journalist, Januarius MacGahan , who was working for the New York Herald . Schuyler and MacGahan traveled from Saratov by sledge to Orenburg , then to Kazala (now Kazalinsk ), then to Fort Perovskii (now Kzyl-Orda ). MacGahan went from there to find the Russian Army at Khiva , while Schuyler travelled through Turkistan and Shymkent on to Tashkent , in present-day Uzbekistan , Samarkand , Bukhara and Kokand . He returned to St. Petersburg via Siberia and

4745-423: Was also responsible for academic affairs, including conducting research and organizing conferences, that had been a part of the early history of the magazine. Nation Associates became responsible for the operation and publication of the magazine on a nonprofit basis, with Kirchwey as both president of Nation Associates and editor of The Nation . Before the attack on Pearl Harbor , The Nation repeatedly called on

4818-485: Was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison 's The Liberator , an abolitionist newspaper that closed in 1865, after ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution . Thereafter, the magazine proceeded to a broader topic, The Nation . An important collaborator of the new magazine was its Literary Editor Wendell Phillips Garrison , son of William. He had at his disposal his father's vast network of contacts. The Nation

4891-493: Was out of a job again when the U.S. Congress, as an economy measure, abolished the post of minister to Greece, Romania and Serbia. He presented his recall on September 7, 1884, for Romania, his recall was transmitted by note by the Vice Consul General at Belgrade on September 19, 1884, for Serbia, and he presented his recall on October 13, 1884, for Greece. In 1884, Schuyler left the diplomatic service to lecture at Johns Hopkins and Cornell University on diplomatic practice and

4964-414: Was published in October 1876, in both the United States and England. Like his report to the State Department, it was favorable to Russia's role in Central Asia: "Notwithstanding the many faults which may be found in the administration of the country, the Russian rule is on the whole beneficial to the natives, and it would be manifestly injust to them to withdraw her protection and leave them to anarchy and to

5037-409: Was removed from Turkey and given the post of consul in Birmingham , England. While there he finished his translation of Tolstoi's The Cossacks , which was published in 1878. In August 1879, Schuyler became consul general in Rome , where he completed writing his book on Peter the Great, and began a new book on Catherine the Great . A year later, he became Chargé d'affaires in Bucharest , as

5110-417: Was slightly higher; and both lost money. It was thought that the two magazines could unite and make the most powerful journal of opinion. The new publication would have been called The Nation and New Republic . Kirchwey was the most hesitant, and both attempts to merge failed. The two magazines would later take very different paths: The Nation achieved a higher circulation, and The New Republic moved more to

5183-673: Was subjected to more attacks in the press, accused of bias toward the Bulgarians. On January 3, 1878, the Turkish Government demanded his recall: "The Porte regarded a continuance of Mr. Schuyler as consul-general at Constantinople as a serious injury to Turkey in its diplomatic relations and in the administration of its affairs in the provinces." On May 29, 1878, a State Department investigation of Schuyler found that "His sentiments and sympathies are strongly anti-Turkish" and that he "aided greatly to alienate British sympathy from Turkey in her struggle with Russia," and reprimanded him for his "unauthorized and self-imposed mission to Bulgaria." Schuyler

5256-501: Was such a bad one that voters should stay home. In June 1979, The Nation ' s publisher Hamilton Fish and then-editor Victor Navasky moved the magazine to 72 Fifth Avenue , in Manhattan . In June 1998, the periodical had to move to make way for condominium development. The offices of The Nation are now at 33 Irving Place, in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood. In 1977, a group organized by Hamilton Fish V bought

5329-731: Was withdrawn, however, after opposition within the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , and William F. Wharton was eventually appointed and confirmed. Instead, Schuyler took the post of diplomatic agent and consul general in Cairo , Egypt. While in Egypt, he contracted malaria, and died in Venice on July 16, 1890, at the age of fifty. He was buried in the Protestant section of the San Michele cemetery on

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