Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five women who made important contributions to 19th-century American philosophy finally get their due.

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are.

Margaret Fuller was a polymathic intellect and writer, simultaneously ahead of her time and deeply enmeshed in the social and political fabric of her era.

Trump's foreign policy is not as unprecedented as it seems.

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night.

Nietzsche’s continued presence and resonance in America suggests that he never forgot his Emersonian inheritance.

How the Minute Man statue may be used to perpetuate the idea of patriotism in times of conflict.

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

Margaret Fuller and the first major work of American feminism.

Charles Ives and the visual.

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present.

Steven Hyden's new book about Bruce Springsteen's iconic "Born in the U.S.A" album is the product of a lifelong passion for the music of "The Boss."

How German Enlightenment thought influenced Abraham Lincoln.

Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women, but she earned her first taste of celebrity as an essayist.

“A camping area is a form, however primitive, of a city” —Constant Nieuwenhuys

The story of Swami Vivekananda and his time in America.

Long before monuments to enslavers were removed, lawmakers decided to relocate a scandalous, half-naked depiction of George Washington in a toga.

James K. Polk is considered one of the most successful presidents, even though he did not seek reelection.

Exploring the homes of two presidents, the birthplace of another, and a natural wonder that once drew visitors from far and wide.

The Age of Revolution, known mainly as the period between the American Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848, continued all the way to 1865.