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Elise Lemire

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Myth, Memory, and the Question of the Minute Man Statue

How the Minute Man statue may be used to perpetuate the idea of patriotism in times of conflict.

by Elise Lemire via The Dial: A Journal Of The Emerson Society on November 14, 2024

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A boulder marks the location where Brister Freeman’s house is thought to have stood.

Black People Lived in Walden Woods Long Before Henry David Thoreau

Decades before Thoreau's famous experiment, a community of formerly enslaved men and women had a much different experience of life in the woods.

by Sydney Trent via Retropolis on November 28, 2021

Collage of nature images and transcendentalists' faces, with flowers in Emerson's eyes.

Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

by Sarah Blackwood via The New Republic on January 6, 2022

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