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George Ripley

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The Original 1851 Reviews of Moby Dick

There was little indication 166 years ago that the book would enter the canon of great American fiction.

by George Ripley, Henry F. Chorley, London John Bull, William Young via Literary Hub on September 8, 2017

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Watercolor portrait of Bronson Alcott, a 19th century American philosopher and educator.

New England Ecstasies

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2022

Ralph Waldo Emerson Would Really Hate Your Twitter Feed

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.

by Peter Wirzbicki via Psyche on August 9, 2021

John Henry swinging a hammer, with the steam drill behind him.

John Henry and the Divinity of Labor

Variations in the legend of a steel-driving man tell us about differing American views of the value and purpose of work.

by Jake Maynard via Current Affairs on July 6, 2021

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