It is a remarkable fact that American transcendentalism’s two best-known authors—Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau—lived within walking distance in the same small village of 2,000 souls.

In the lead-up to the bicentennial of American independence in 1976, a graduate student sent a proposal to an editor at a trade publisher in New York. Would he consider taking on a book about the ...

Don't say too much; don't say too little. That's what it takes to be a very good writer (That's #1). A hundred or so years ago, Emerson figured that out. Though he didn't publish an advice book for ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Philosophy Foundation has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2001 Speech. May 25, 2003 marked the bicentennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo ...