Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Feb. 8, 1831, Ellen Tucker Emerson died, at the heartbreakingly young age of 19. Her husband, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the junior pastor of Boston’s Second Church, felt “unstrung, debilitated by grief, ...

2001-05-11T20:01:19-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/f66/20010511201653001.jpgGuests discussed the history of the Early Republic, the transcendental movement, and ...

Transcendentalist thinkers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are often imagined as eschewing technology in the name of nature. But the transcendentalist movement can actually be seen as ...

IN reading the invaluable Memoirs of Emerson by Mr. Cabot, those who knew how intimate were the relations between the Concord poet - philosopher and his younger neighbor, the poet-naturalist, must ...

It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson relocated to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1834 to live with the Rev. Ezra Ripley, his step-grandfather. On July 4, 1837, at the dedication of a monument to the Battle of Concord, a ...

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