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A Season In Utopia

At Brook Farm a handful of gentle Bostonians launched a noble but short-lived experiment in communal living.Edith Roelker CurtisApril 1959In the first week of April, 1841, some eight or ten thoughtful,...

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Fruitlands

The idealists who founded this Utopian colony were singularly well versed in mystical philosophy— and singularly ignorant about farmingJoseph J. Thorndike, Jr.February/March 1986On the first day of...

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Thoreau Walks The Cape

In the blustery days of late fall, the traveler still can find the sparseness and solitude that so greatly pleased the Concord naturalist in 1849Joseph J. Thorndike, Jr.April 1987One morning in early...

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The Hazards Of American Individualism

A distinguished scholar of American literature discusses why, after a career of study and reflection, he believes that Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman are bad for youOliver ConantSeptember 1995Quentin...

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Caution: I Brake For History

A BOLD NEW KIND OF COLLEGE COURSE BRINGS the student directly to the past, nonstop, overnight, in squalor and glory, for weeks on endDouglas BrinkleyApril 1996 O Public Road … you express me better...

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