Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s ...

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.

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 ...

(RNS) The author of 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods,' who was born 200 years ago this week, was a Transcendentalist. Let us 'Splain . . . (RNS) — The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do” ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson relocated to Concord, Mass., 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 chorus ...

PLYMOUTH – Henry David Thoreau, intellectual rebel, transcendentalist, author, conservationist and abolitionist said, “A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.” Plymouth ...

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 ...

This July 12 marks 200 years since the birth of one of America’s most original and provocative writers. As the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth approaches, 21st-century publishing houses ...

A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin in Walden Pond, where he wrote his famous essay Walden. Kirkikis / Getty Images This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on ...

THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND THEIR WORLD. By Robert A. Gross. FSG. 864 pages. $40. Twenty-first century visitors to Concord, Mass., will be pleased to discover that it still retains much of its ...