waldo

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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

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s standards of literary criticism, like his philosophy, are focused on realism, felt experience and humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

While the phrase originates from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” and refers specifically to the Battle of Concord, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were actually fired earlier that day in Lexington.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2025

Police officers were directed to the back of a residence in the 5300 hundred block of Waldo Place, where one of the suspects was seen running.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2025

She never missed an antislavery convention, and she became friends with writers and other social reformers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling