Tag: Transcendentalism

A New “Portrait” of Henry David Thoreau?

Carte-de-visite of Samuel Rouse

Last week we announced a new AAS web resource consisting of four journals kept by Edmund Quincy Sewall Jr. between 1837 and 1840, plus an introductory essay.  The journals include a description of Edmund’s life in Concord, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1840 while he was attending John and Henry David Thoreau’s Concord Academy and ...

Recommended Reading: Isa, A Pilgrimage (1852) by Caroline Chesebro’

Chesebro

Editor's note: In the most recent issue of the Almanac, we asked members of the AAS community to give us their choice of recommended reading for "fiction published before 1900." We are continuing those recommendation in this series on Past is Present. This first post is written by AAS member Philip F. Gura, who is ...