To put it another way: he took the check. James Marcus is the author of the new biography “Glad to the Brink of Fear: A ...

He would refer to this man as his "master," Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1911. Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated poets and philosophers, was born to a Boston Brahmin family on May 25, 1803, just 28 years after the clashes in Lexington and Concord.

On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to mark the start of the American Revolution. Ralph Waldo Emerson first used ...