Become familiar with women who contributed to the American transcendentalist movement. Learn about Margaret Fuller and Mary Moody Emerson.

Find reference materials on these transcendentalists and view pictures of their homes and graves.

Discover the attitudes that certain American transcendentalists had towards education in this essay.

Summary explains the evolution of transcendentalism in Europe and America. Find related articles and study aids.

Become informed on prominent figures and branches of this philosophical movement. Courtesy of Paul P. Reuben.

Student outlines the development of this movement in America and investigates its primary principles.

Lengthy examination of American transcendentalism's roots in Calvinism and Puritanism is available here.

Access texts by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson or check out books about transcendentalism.

Chronicles the development of this philosophical movement and names its largest proponents.

Brief article assesses the European and American contributions to transcendentalism.

Provides a historical background of this movement and introduces the writings of Henry Thoreau. Find related links.

Peruse a collection of quotes that attempt to define transcendentalism. Includes Emerson, Thoreau, Noah Porter and O. B. Frothingham.

Find a definition of the 19th-century American literary movement and a handful of links to other resources about it.

Essay critiques the transcendentalist philosophy of Emerson and Thoreau. Learn why the author thinks that the philosophers were conformists.

Gather facts about the transcendentalist movement of the nineteenth century or participate in discussion on the subject.

Philosophy class project includes a brief definition of this philosophical movement and links to related texts.