Massachusetts Archives - The American Scholar

Reading Thoreau at 200

By William Howarth | 06/05/2017 |

Why is the seminal work of the great American transcendentalist held in such scorn today?

Julia von Metzsch Ramos

By Noelani Kirschner | 05/29/2017 |

Making Waves

Talk of the Town

By Robert A. Gross | 06/08/2015 |

At the Concord Lyceum, Emerson tried out his lectures on his neighbors