The American Reception of the Quantum as Seen by the Physical Review, 1900-1927

This talk tells the story of the ``American awakening'' to quantum theory seen through the pages of the \textit{Physical Review}. It begins with the journal's first mentions of Planck and the quantum, follows the story through publication of the first papers on experiment and theory, and concludes just after Schr\"{o}dinger's 1926 \textit{Physical Review} article on wave mechanics -- which reflected the Austrian physicist's realization that at last there existed a large enough American audience interested in theoretical developments of quantum mechanics to make such an article worth writing and publishing.