I recently assigned my junior English students a speech. The assignment itself came right out of our English III competencies as follows: "Read Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Nature," Henry David Thoreau's ...

Intellectual ferment and social turmoil characterized America in the mid-19th century. Transcendentalism, an intentionally nebulous philosophy that asserted the primacy of individual consciousness ...

The New England Quarterly, founded in 1928, is best described by its subtitle, A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters. Through major essays, memoranda and edited documents, ...