During Harvard University’s commencement week in 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson took the podium at the annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa society. The group, composed of the top students in the ...

In 1862, our co-founder Ralph Waldo Emerson deplored decades of past compromise with the forces supporting and benefiting from the immoral “destitution” of slavery, and derided lawmakers who ...

BOTON, Mass., May 26.--The will of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson was found among his papers, and has been filed for probate. He gives all his real estate, with the exception of his house and ...

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President Trump on Saturday tweeted a New York Times article with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote about going after the “king,” quickly prompting the phrase “you are not a king” to trend on ...

James Marcus had long been fascinated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, but it wasn’t until he found himself at a low point, both professionally and personally, that he began to see the great ...