Dial is first published.

[7/1] Officially The Dial, a Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion, it is published by Weeks, Jordan & Company from offices on today’s Washington Mall (then 121 Washington Street) [134 Washington Street-BJT]. Subsequently described as “The bold bible for the Young America,” the magazine focuses on literature, religion, and what comes to be known as Transcendentalism. Margaret Fuller is the first editor. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody becomes publisher and Emerson editor in 1841 [1842]. Emerson, Fuller, Parker, and Peabody are the major contributors, and the magazine publishes the first work of Henry David Thoreau. James Monroe becomes publisher in 1843 . The last issue appears in April 1844.