Looking Back: <i>Economic Geography’s</i> Evolution, 1925–1991

Editorial: In honor of Economic Geography's (EG) centennial in 2025, this commentary reviews its early history from the perspectives of its first four editors-in-chief—Wallace W. Atwood, Elmer Ekblaw, Raymond Murphy, and Gerald Karaska—who managed the journal between 1925 and 1991. This time span could be termed the journal’s premodern to early-modern period. During this time EG’s content shifted from empirically descriptive, chorographically focused articles to content that was increasingly diversified topically, theoretically, methodologically, and normatively to a point that reflects more clearly the field that we know today. © 2026 Clark University.