TRANSCENDENTALISM

 

 

 

 

Picture Credit:

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LS Barbour 3/24/2008

 

 

Information Source

 

Virginia Commonwealth University hypertext on Transcendentalism http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/

 

Today in Literature http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/ralph.waldo.emerson.asp

Emerson's study on display

Thoreau's bed, desk and chair from his cabin at Walden Pond and an exhibit of pencil making-related artifacts http://www.concordmuseum.org/

Emerson's first home in Concord, The Old Manse http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/346_old_manse.cfm

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery http://www.concordnet.org/Pages/ConcordMA_Cemetery/sleepy

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Walden Pond State Reservation replica of Thoreau's cabin and a trail to its original site http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/wldn.htm

walden pond

 

Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library http://www.walden.org/Institute/Collections/Overview.htm

Brook Farm Historic Site http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/metroboston/brookFarm.htm

Orchard House

Home of the Alcotts

http://www.louisamayalcott.org/

Shepherd College (WV) American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide to literary figures, thinkers, and places http://www.shepherd.edu/transweb/links.htm

http://web.uccs.edu/english338/transweb.jpg

CONCORD MA: PBS Profiles: Artists, Movements, Ideas

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/concord.html

The Old North Bridge over the Concord River as it flows near the Old Manse.

Concord, Massachusetts, 1810-1890 http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/concord.htm

Replica of Thoreau's cabin

Concord Maps: Photographs were taken by Linda C. Joseph of the 1852, 1883, and 1906 Concord and Middlesex Country maps from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress http://www.cyberbee.com/henryhikes/concordmaps.html

Photographs of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery’s more famous occupants from the Transcendentalist Movement http://www.concordma.com/magazine/novdec01/sleepyhollow.html

http://www.concordma.com/magazine/janfeb02/sleepyhollow.html

To Author's Ridge

Historical Context: Religion and Social Reform http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us15.cfm

 

 

 

Picture Credit:

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