Ralph Waldo Emerson’s timeless words, “You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late,” ...

A breadth of interest encourages wonder, a trait that seems in such short supply among adults today,” writes David Peduto.

Since the 19th century, Americans have looked to Ralph Waldo Emerson for wisdom on many subjects, from education to religion to politics. Today, surrounded by political storms and the sorrow and ...

What’s your relationship to nature? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau wrestled mightily with that question while wandering the Massachusetts woods in the mid-1800s. Now, a walking play is ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...

Nearly 200 years ago, a Unitarian minister named Ralph Waldo Emerson began publishing ideas called Transcendentalism. Essays such as Self-Reliance, Nature and The Over-Soul have become icons of ...

I enjoyed William Major and Bryan Sinche’s essay, “Giving Emerson the Boot” (The Chronicle Review, January 22). Playfully embroidered with verbal flourishes and echoes from the Sage of Concord’s own ...

Every autumn, as the sun hangs lower for the season, it seems to rest beside me while I sip morning coffee and scan the ...

Wonder Land: College Presidents' spineless response to antisemitic protests are the culmination of academia’s plummet the past 50 years which has included grade inflation, speech codes, trigger ...

The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s has revived tales of fighting at the start of the Revolutionary War. By Christine Hauser In “Glad to the Brink of Fear,” James Marcus frames the great ...