Major
Websites on Transcendentalism and Beyond
Age-of-the-Sage
(including page on New
England Transcendentalism)
American
Transcendentalism Web
Concord
Magazine (including Leslie Perrin Wilson’s “New
England Transcendentalism”)
“American
Transcendentalism” (Donna Campbell, Gonzaga University)
The
Transcendentalists
C-SPAN
American Writers Series,
including:
·
Ralph
Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, Nature and Walden
·
Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter
·
Frederick
Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave, Written by Himself
Transcendentalist
Places
(arranged geographically)
Boston,
Massachusetts
Boston's
Literary Heritage
“Boston’s
Literary Trail Visits Great American Authors” (Francis J. Folsom)
“Boston
in the Sixties” (from Rebecca Harding Davis, Bits of Gossip, Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1904, reprinted online at Documenting the American
South, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Literary Trail of Greater Boston,
including
·
The Parker House
·
Old Corner
Bookstore
·
Boston
Athenaeum
Beacon
Hill
Beacon
Hill Online: The Neighborhood Website for Beacon Hill
See
especially: “A Walk Down
Charles Street”
“A
Beacon Hill Stroll” (Jacqueline G. Harris, The Beacon Hill Visitor)
Unitarian History
“Visiting Boston and
the UUA” (Unitarian Universalist Association)
Map
of UUA History Sites on Beacon Hill and on Boston Common (Unitarian
Universalist Association)
“UU
Women's History Walking Tour of Boston” (Christine Jaronski,
Standing Before Us: Unitarian Universalist Women’s Heritage Society)
King’s
Chapel
African American History
Black Heritage Trail
(Museum of Afro American History Boston), including:
·
African
Americans on Beacon Hill
·
African Meeting
House
Augustus
Saint-Gaudens’ Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts
Fifty-fourth Regiment
Robert
Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial (Boston
African-American National Historic Site)
Concord,
Massachusetts
Concord
Museum
Minute
Man National Historical Park
“Concord,
Massachusetts” (Thomas Hampson, I Hear America Singing, PBS)
“Timeline
of Events: Concord, Massachusetts: 1810-1910” (Donna Campbell,
Gonzaga University)
C-SPAN
American Writers Series: Ralph
Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, Nature and Walden (with clips
of several key sites in Concord and nearby Walden)
Historical
maps of Concord, from Take a Hike with Henry website
Orchard
House
The
Old Manse
“Sleepy
Hollow: A Tour”: Part
1 and Part
2 (Andrea Menna Taylor and Deborah Bier, The Concord Magazine)
Concord
Magazine, including:
·
Concord in Images: A
Virtual Booklet
·
Nature in Concord: A Virtual
Booklet
·
“Say
It Like a Local”
Walden
Pond (near Concord, Massachusetts)
C-SPAN
American Writers Series: Ralph
Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, Nature and Walden (with clips
of Walden and key sites in nearby Concord)
The
Woods at Walden Pond
Walden
Pond State Reservation
Walden
Pond and Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau,
Walden, and the Environment
Don
Henley, Walden Woods Project
“Amusements
at Lake Walden” (The Concord Magazine)
“Sunrise
at Walden Pond” (Francis McGovern, Literary Traveler)
“Tracing
the Source of Walden Pond Waters” (Eugene H. Walker, The Concord
Magazine)
“Whatever
Happened to Thoreau’s Hut?”: Part
1 and Part
2 (Deborah Bier, Concord Magazine)
Salem,
Massachusetts
Salem
Tales (Jim McAllister)
Hawthorne
in Salem
House
of the Seven Gables
(historic site)
Derby
Street Historic District
The
U.S. Custom House
Hawthorne’s
Birthplace
Salem
Witch Trials Monument
The
Witch House
Amherst,
Massachusetts
The
Dickinson Homestead
“The
Dickinson Homestead” (Jodi Werner, Literary Traveler)
“The
House Where a Scandal Divided Emily Dickinson’s Family” (Grace
Glueck, New York Times)
Interactive
Tour of Amherst
Massachusetts
Utopian Communities
Fruitlands
Museum
The
Brook Farm Community (Age-of-the-Sage)
Brook
Farm Historic Site (Transcendentalists.com)
Long
Island, New York
Walt
Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
A
Tour of Whitmanland
“The
Paumanok Poet: Early Years on Long
Island Inspire the Creative Genius of an American Literary Giant”
(George DeWan, Newsday)
New
York City, New York
South
Street Seaport Museum (including Bowne
& Co., Stationers)
“Worlds
Visible and Invisible: Whitman, New York City, and the World/Whorled of
Print in the 1850s”
(Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina)
Brooklyn
Heights: America’s First Suburb
Fulton
Ferry/UMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)
Construction
of the Brooklyn Bridge
Other
Ferry Options
Walt
Whitman Park, Brooklyn
Fulton
Ferry Landing Park
Brooklyn
Bridge Park
Brooklyn
Bridge
Chesapeake
Bay, Maryland
Blacks
of the Chesapeake Bay
Talbot
County, Maryland
St.
Michaels, Maryland
Easton,
Maryland
Baltimore,
Maryland
“The
Presence of Absence: A Conceptual
Tour of African-American History in Baltimore”
(Ruth Turner)
Transcendentalist
Authors and Thinkers
(arranged
alphabetically)
Bronson
Alcott
“Father
of the ‘Little Women.’” (Library of Congress/American Memory
Project: Today in History)
Orchard
House
Transcendental
Ideas: Social Reform, History of Fruitlands (Jessica Gordon, American
Transcendentalism Web, VCU)
Louisa
May Alcott
Biography
"Daughter
of the Transcendentalists"
"Transcendental
Wild Oats" (reprinted by American Transcendentalism Web, VCU)
Orchard
House
Emily
Dickinson
Virtual
Emily
The
Dickinson Homestead
The
EvergreensWritings
by the Dickinson Family (University of Virginia)
Jodi
Werner, “The
Dickinson Homestead” (Literary Traveler)
Grace
Glueck, “The
House Where a Scandal Divided Emily Dickinson’s Family” (New York
Times)
Frederick
Douglass
Frederick
Douglass.org
American
Visionaries: Frederick Douglass
(National Park Service)
Gallery
of Douglass Portraits
Frederick
Douglass Family Tree
(Library of Congress/American Memory Project)
The
Search for Frederick Douglass’s Birthplace
C-Span
American Writers: Frederick Douglass
“On
the Trail of Frederick Douglass in Baltimore”
(Tom Chalkley)
Frederick
Douglass Museum and Cultural Center
(Rochester, NY)
Frederick
Douglass National Historic Site
(Washington, DC)
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Ralph
Waldo Emerson” (Library of Congress/American Memory Project: Today
in History)
C-SPAN
American Writers Series: Ralph
Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, Nature and Walden
Emerson
in Concord: An Exhibition in
Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Margaret
Fuller
Margaret
Fuller (Age-of-the-Sage)
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
Biography
Special
hyperlinked version of "The Custom-House"
Hawthorne
in Salem
“Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s Neighborhood”
(Jim McAllister, Salem Tales)
House
of the Seven Gables
(historic site)
Hawthorne’s
Birthplace
Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody
Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody (Age-of-the-Sage)
The
Grimshawe House and Elizabeth Peabody (Jim McAllister, Salem Tales)
The
Peabody Sisters (Unitarian Universalist Association)
Henry
David Thoreau
C-SPAN
American Writers Series: Ralph
Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, Nature and Walden
“Henry
David Thoreau” (Library of Congress/American Memory Project: Today
in History)
Thoreau
Almanac (The Concord Magazine)
Walden
Pond and Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau,
Walden, and the Environment
Don
Henley, Walden Woods Project
Thoreau
Society
“Sunrise
at Walden Pond” (Francis McGovern, Literary Traveler)
“Whatever
Happened to Thoreau’s Hut?”: Part
1 and Part
2 (Deborah Bier, Concord Magazine)
Henry
Hikes to Fitchburg (D.B.
Johnson)
D.B.
Johnson (profiled in Concord Magazine)
Walt
Whitman
Walt
Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
A
Tour of Whitmanland
“The
Paumanok Poet: Early Years on Long
Island Inspire the Creative Genius of an American Literary Giant”
(George DeWan, Newsday)
“Poet
at Work: Recovered Notebooks from the Thomas Biggs Harned Walt Whitman
Collection”
(Library of Congress/American Memory Project)
“Whitman’s
Manuscript Drafts of ‘Song of Myself’/Leaves of Grass, 1855”
(Ed
Folsom)
The
Walt Whitman Archive
Walt
Whitman and the Development of Leaves of Grass (Anthony Szczesiul and
Jason A. Pierce)
Whitman
Image Gallery
Audio
Recording of Whitman Reading "America"
"The
Geographical Imagination in Whitman and Dickinson" (Kirsten Silva
Gruesz)
“Worlds
Visible and Invisible: Whitman, New York City, and the World/Whorled of
Print in the 1850s”
(Ezra Greenspan, University of South Carolina)
Walt
Whitman Park, Brooklyn
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