On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...

I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I ...

“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...

Into this circle of pessimists was born Ralph Waldo Emerson, a man gifted with a large cheerful nature, ready to face the great questions of the day, but never made despondent by them. Although he ...

Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do, consider him at best a 19th-century transcendentalist or, at worst, the Dale Carnegie of belles lettres. But Emerson ...

Addresses will be made by President Eliot and by Dr. Emerson, the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Concluding the exercises the two visiting associations will hold a joint debate on "The Relations of ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a writer, thinker and philosopher who became the leading proponent of Transcendentalism, a movement that imbued the austere New England Unitarian tradition with elements of ...

From annotations written by John Stuart Mill on his personal copies of the first editions of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, which were published in two volumes, in 1841 and 1844.… ...

Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aunt, was once asked whether she wanted tea, coffee or chocolate. She replied: “All.” Would she, wondered her hostess, want them in separate cups?