“I have lived entirely too much of my life in the 19th century!” Randall Fuller laughs. And indeed, all of the Kansas University professor’s previous books explored America’s intellectual landscape ...

Many Americans have been aghast at violent mobs toppling statues and the widespread looting and destructive rampages that followed the killing of George Floyd. Media coverage often ignores the ...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson and his friends hammered out the principles of Transcendentalism in the mid-1830s, the result was a ...

Along with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was a leader of the transcendentalist movement. He is known for his book Walden, which he wrote while living in the forest near Walden ...