Ralph Waldo Emerson is the Top Dog of Transcendentalism. The Godfather. The Big Cheese. The biggest, oldest, most huggable tree in the forest, if you're starting to think like a Transcendentalist....

Henry David Thoreau is the fella who brought you civil disobedience and Walden Pond, and he's the other big name associated with Transcendentalism. Like his fellow Transcendentalists, Thoreau was i...

As much as names like Ralph Waldo and Henry David get tossed around in Transcendental land, you best not believe that all those Transcendentalists were men. Because Margaret Fuller was a woman who...

Was Whitman "officially" a Transcendentalist? That's a hot debate in some circles, believe it or not. But we're including him in the list of the Top 5 for a whole load of reasons. First of all, he...

Like Emerson, Christopher Pearse Cranch started off as a Unitarian minister. But as his interest in Transcendentalism developed—because of his friendship with Ralph himself and some other Transce...