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September 8, 2012
There was no club in the strict sense
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It all began on September 8, 1836, in Cambridge, Massachusetts: Four men — Ralph Waldo Emerson , Frederic Henry Hedge , George Putnam , an...
October 20, 2010
We set down our Dial on the earth
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The members of the Transcendental Club all supported the establishment of a new journal for their cause; as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, ...
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June 14, 2010
Social Reform will be paramount
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The Utopian pilgrims at Brook Farm wanted to expand their idealistic (and Transcendentalist) beliefs to others — so they started a newspape...
June 13, 2010
Tribune vs. Ledger
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Horace Greeley was in Washington D.C. and left his newspaper, the ubiquitous New York Tribune , in the hands of editor Charles Anderson Dan...
March 3, 2010
Dreams of Brook Farm burn down
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Though it was not expressly a literary endeavor, Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, was meant to foster intellectual goals. By pool...
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