This page contains links to important websites devoted to American literary studies with a specific emphasis on the major Concord authors, Utopian social experiments in New England, and Transcendentalism.  The screen also includes links to general literary online references and American literature.

Sponsoring Agencies

The National Endowment for the Humanities
http://www.neh.gov

National Endowment for the Humanities - Landmarks in American History and Culture Application Guidelines
www.ccha-assoc.org/grants/NEH_wkshop_Guidelines.pdf

Community College Humanities Association
http://www.ccha-assoc.org

Online Resources for Concord, Massachusetts

ConcordMA.com
http://www.concordma.com/

ConcordNet.corg
http://www.concordnet.org/

Concord  Free Public Library
http://www.concordnet.org/library/index.html

What to See & Do in Concord MA
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/index.html

The Trustees (Owners of the Old Manse)
http://www.thetrustees.org/

The Old Manse (Trustees website)
http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/346_old_manse.cfm

Walden Pond State Reservation
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/northeast/wldn.htm

Concord History
http://www.thetrustees.org/pages/346_old_manse.cfm

Battles of Lexington and Concord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lexington_and_Concord

Concord’s Old North Bridge
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/northbridge.html

Ralph Waldo Emerson House
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/emerson_house.html

The Concord Museum
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/concord_museum.html

The Orchard House
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/go/ma/boston_west/concord/sights/orchardhouse.html

Margaret Fuller
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/margaretfuller.html

Transcendentalism in New England
http://www.newenglandtravelplanner.com/religion/transcendentalism.html

American Transcendentalism Web – Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/index.html

The Web of American Transcendentalism
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/

Research and Archival Sources

Special Collections Curator – Concord Free Public Library
http://www.concordnet.org/library/pages/general/staff.html#spcol

Massachusetts Archives
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcidx.htm

Boston Athenaeum
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/home.html

Henry David Thoreau Papers
http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/HDT.html

Henry David Thoreau Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University
http://oasis.harvard.edu:10080/oasis/deliver/~hou00861

Ralph Waldo Emerson Papers
http://www.concordnet.org/library/scollect/Fin_Aids/RWEmerson.htm

Special Collections of the Boston Public Library
http://www.bpl.org/research/special/index.htm

This page was last modified on July 9, 2008,
and is maintained by Dr. Geoffrey A. Grimes.