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Major Websites on
Transcendentalism and Beyond
Age-of-the-Sage (including page on New England Transcendentalism)
American Transcendentalism Web
“New England Transcendentalism”
“American Transcendentalism” (Donna Campbell, Washington State
University)
The Transcendentalists
C-SPAN American Writers
Series, including:
Ralph Waldo Emerson &
Henry David Thoreau, “Nature” and Walden
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Frederick Douglass, Narrative
of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
Transcendentalist
Places
(arranged geographically)
Boston,
Massachusetts
Boston's Literary Heritage
“Boston in the Sixties” (Rebecca Harding Davis)
Beacon Hill
Beacon Hill Online: The Neighborhood Website for Beacon
Hill
See especially: “A Mount Vernon Street Walking
Tour”
Unitarian History
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, Washington State 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
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
The
Walden Woods Project and the Thoreau Institute
“Sunrise at Walden Pond” (Francis McGovern, Literary
Traveler)
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)
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
New York City, New
York
South Street Seaport Museum (including Bowne & Co. Stationers)
Brooklyn Heights
Fulton Ferry/DUMBO (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 Project
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; go to this link and
scroll down to “Missing: black history”)
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)
Louisa May Alcott
“Daughter of the Transcendentalists”
“Transcendental Wild Oats” (reprinted by American Transcendentalism Web, VCU)
Orchard
House
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson Museum
Dickinson Electronic Archives
Writings 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
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
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
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller (Age-of-the-Sage)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hawthorne in Salem
Hawthorne’s Birthplace
“Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s Neighborhood” (Jim
McAllister, Salem Tales)
Special hyperlinked version of “The Custom-House”
House of the Seven Gables (historic site)
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (Age-of-the-Sage)
The
Grimshawe House and Elizabeth Peabody (Jim
McAllister, Salem Tales)
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, Walden, and the Environment
The Walden Woods Project and the Thoreau Institute
“Sunrise at Walden Pond” (Francis McGovern, Literary Traveler)
Henry Hikes . . . Books (D.B. Johnson)
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Birthplace
State Historic Site and Interpretive Center
“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)
Walt
Whitman Park, Brooklyn
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