American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide

Boston

Concord

Walden Pond

Fruitlands

Salem

Amherst

New York

Maryland

America

At Home

Margaret Fuller &
Elizabeth Peabody

Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Henry David
Thoreau

Bronson Alcott

Nathaniel
Hawthorne

Emily
Dickinson

Walt
Whitman

Frederick
Douglass

Environmental
Heroes

The Shepherd 
Crowd

Journals        Poetry    Special Presentations    Syllabus    WebQuests     Links & References    About This Site

Welcome to American Transcendentalism, an online travel guide developed by students and faculty in the Department of English at Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Join us as we explore the homes of the nineteenth-century Transcendentalists, their continuing impact on environmental and nature writers in the twentieth century, and their profound effect on us and the world we call home in West Virginia.

“American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide” was produced by students in ENGL 446, American Transcendentalism, and ENGL 447, American Literature and the Prominence of Place: A Travel Practicum. These courses were team-taught in the Department of English at Shepherd College (now Shepherd University), Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in Spring 2002 by Dr. Patricia Dwyer and Dr. Linda Tate. Dr. Tate offered the course again in Spring 2006, and more students added journal entries, sketches, poems, and photographs. For more information on the courses and the web project, visit “About This Site.”

Above: Shepherd College faculty and students at the original site of Thoreau's cabin, Walden Pond, Massachusetts (photo by Steve Carlin). Pictured left to right: Sarah Alouf, Lizzie Lowe, Anna Hughes, Catherine Hall, Dr. Patricia Dwyer, Dr. Linda Tate, Deidre Schaefer, Dan Marrs.

“American Transcendentalism: An Online Travel Guide” was produced by students in ENGL 446, American Transcendentalism, and ENGL 447, American Literature and the Prominence of Place: A Travel Practicum. These courses were team-taught in the Department of English at Shepherd College (now Shepherd University), Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in Spring 2002 by Dr. Patricia Dwyer and Dr. Linda Tate. For more information on the course and the web project, visit “About This Site.” © 2003 Linda Tate.