Margaret Fuller

How an intense unclassifiable relationship shaped the history of modern thought.

“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”

On the 250th anniversary of the famous composer’s birth, the story of how his music first took hold across the Atlantic.

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

Alec Nevala-Lee’s new biography assesses the complicated legacy of an architect better known for his image than his work.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller.

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.