The heart of Early American Life is the Editorial Department, which is responsible for all the content of the magazine (except the ads). In addition to our overworked staff, we use many freelance writers and photographers to tell our stories. We try to get the experts to discuss what they are best at. Often we recruit professional writers to work with the experts to polish our stories and make them more enjoyable reading.

On this website, the Editorial Department helps you, as a reader, find the stories you are looking for. You can check the tables of contents for issues since December 2003 (when the present publisher took over). Although we do not put the full contents of the magazine on-line (if we did, what would be the point of publishing a magazine at all?), we are trying to make available content from issues no longer available. You'll see some of that material gradually appearing on this site as we sort out the rights to the material.

We encourage new writers to participate in the creation of the magazine, and we've posted guidelines to help them create stories for us and a stylebook that outlines the punctuation and grammar details we prefer.

We also solicit your comments with a handy Letter to the Editor form as well as a form for submitting calendar events. We'll also soon post a form through which you can recommend homes for us to write about.