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When Thoreau set out for his first of his three chronicled trips to Cape Cod in 1849, he was a virtually unknown hanger-on to America’s foremost public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Susan B. Anthony, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman were among those who professed their belief in the revelatory power of skulls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Victor’s screenplay earned her the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where the film had its premiere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025

For e.e. cummings, like earlier American transcendentalist poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, paying attention was everything.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2025

Author Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of the most popular public lecturers of the day, was among the intellectuals who came out against spirit communication.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock