On July 4, 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) delivered an invited poem at the inauguration of the Battle Monument at Concord, Massachusetts — fifty-one years after the Fourth of July issuing of ...

I'd like to share Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," a poem he wrote to commemorate the completion of the battle monument, to honor the fallen heroes at the battles of Lexington and Concord in ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated poets and philosophers, was born to a Boston Brahmin family on May 25, 1803, just 28 years after the clashes in Lexington and Concord. His ...

In “Emerson,” composed in 1868 and published posthumously in our December 1904 issue, theologian Henry James Sr. reflected on the distinct impression Ralph Waldo Emerson made upon his readers: No ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson first used that memorable phrase to describe the event in his poem “Concord Hymn.” The Revolutionary War “shot,” which turns 250 this year, also marked the start of ...

Examiner Ralph Waldo Emerson, by the numbers Let’s give literary thanks to the author of “Self-Reliance,” born May 25, 1803, and buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow cemetery.