RUTLAND, Vt. — In the early fall of 1776, Continental Army Chaplain William Emerson straggled down the Crown Point Road on horseback. He made it to the home of fellow clergyman Benajah Roots on what ...

The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s has revived tales of fighting at the start of the Revolutionary War. By Christine Hauser In “Glad to the Brink of Fear,” James Marcus frames the great ...

Nearly 200 years ago, a Unitarian minister named Ralph Waldo Emerson began publishing ideas called Transcendentalism. Essays such as Self-Reliance, Nature and The Over-Soul have become icons of ...

Writer came to St. Augustine in the 1820s for treatment of tuberculosis The promise of a mild climate and sea airs brought Ralph Waldo Emerson to St. Augustine in the winter of 1827. However, in those ...

Context has long been a critical determiner of methodologies for literary studies, granting scholars the tools to make objective claims about a text’s political or economic relation to the situation ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The Earth laughs in flowers.” I tend to agree with the American philosopher and early ...

Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger ...

The tweets of Donald J. Trump are sometimes inane, sometimes scary, and sometimes baffling. On Saturday he made two that are the latter. Only a few days after inexplicably sharing a clip from Curb ...