Courtesy: Library of Congress A Literary Giant Ralph ... the philosophical tradition known as American Transcendentalism. Emerson's companions in the movement included Jones Very, the Peabody ...

A concept that originated in the mid-nineteenth century ... literary prestige, they marshaled a powerful case for free love as the soul of modernity. The splintering of the Socialist movement ...

Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.