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the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine with this issue celebrates its 75th year of publication. During these 75 years, the journal has evolved from a publication with a narrow focus on anatomical and experimental pathology and a limited circulation to a journal covering the entire field of pathology and laboratory medicine with an international circulation. The journal started in 1926 as one of the Archives specialty journals of the American Medical Association (AMA) and today is published as the official journal of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in association with the AMA. All CAP members receive the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine as a membership benefit. This distribution, plus the additional subscription circulation to individuals and libraries, gives the journal an average monthly circulation of 16000, the largest of any peer-reviewed journal covering the entire field of pathology and laboratory medicine.
This article will briefly review and celebrate the history of the ARCHIVES during its first three quarters of a century.
The founding editor of the ARCHIVES, Ludvig Hektoen, MD, of Chicago, Ill, was a beloved and nationally recognized leader both in the field of pathology and in medical research (Figure).1-3 His research interests were broad and included the pathology of infectious diseases, immunology, and forensic pathology. He served as chair of the Departments of Pathology at both the Rush Medical College in Chicago and the University of Chicago and held many other leadership positions in medicine and pathology, both locally and nationally. Dr Hektoen was the recipient of numerous honors during his career, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences. He and a small editorial board of 5 distinguished American pathologists led the ARCHIVES during the first quarter of a century of its existence.
The editors following Hektoen included Granville Bennett, MD, chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Illinois, 1950-1954; Paul R. Cannon, MD, chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago, 1954-1963; D. Murray Angevine, MD, chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and then Associate Director for Research at the...