Ralph Waldo Emerson 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?

Spring 2017

By Anne Matthews | 03/06/2017 |

The Taming of the Wild

By David Gessner | 06/06/2016 |

As we celebrate the centenary of the National Park Service, a meditation on “the best idea that America ever had”

Liberty Is a Slow Fruit

By Louis P. Masur | 09/04/2012 |

Lincoln the deliberate emancipator

Where Does American History Begin?

By Ted Widmer | 09/01/2008

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down