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Declaring “Revolution”

Even after the fighting started, it took years before American Patriots started calling their cause a “revolution.”

by Robert A. Gross via HNN on June 30, 2026
Why Concord?

The geological origins of the American Revolution.

by Robert A. Gross, Robert Thorson via The Atlantic
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on October 8, 2025
Fighting Words: The Pamphlets of a Democratic Revolution

To judge from the Concord collection, the public forum of antebellum America was no model of democratic deliberation.

by Robert A. Gross via Commonplace on September 19, 2023

The Transcendentalists and Their World

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Watercolor portrait of Bronson Alcott, a 19th century American philosopher and educator.

New England Ecstasies

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2022

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

A colorful bird and landscape sketched within the shape of a man's head.

Emerson Didn’t Practice the Self-Reliance He Preached

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.

by Mark Greif via The Atlantic on November 9, 2021

Cover of "Liberty Is Sweet," featuring a painting of a man holding a gun to two soldiers on horseback.

Fighting the American Revolution

An interview with Woody Holton on his new book, "Liberty is Sweet."

by Woody Holton, Tom Cutterham via Age of Revolutions on April 11, 2022

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