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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated poets and philosophers, was born to a Boston Brahmin family on May 25, 1803, just 28 years after the clashes in Lexington and Concord.