Margaret Fuller

Transcendentalism

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Transcendentalism is a philosophical and religious way of thinking that manifested itself in particular, if not necessarily uniform, ways. Though some of its ideas about individualism and nature can be traced to the late eighteenth century and to European thinkers… Read More ›

The Birth of American Feminism

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Aside from the antislavery movement, perhaps the most significant social activism in nineteenth-century America occurred within the women’s movement. Many of America’s earliest women’s-rights activists, such as Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, first became radicalized by… Read More ›