Wandering Emerson’s House

August 6, 2020 Dr. Dean

You are probably tired of wandering your house.

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

July 31, 2020 Dr. Dean

Members of the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz kneel together around the Black Lives Matter logo on the court during the national anthem before the start of an NBA basketball game Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, Pool)

Taking Down Its ‘Own Monuments,’ Sierra Club Assesses The Racism Of John Muir

July 30, 2020 Dr. Dean

The Sierra Club said protests sparked by George Floyd’s death led it to re-examine the legacy of founder John Muir and his derogatory remarks about Blacks and Indigenous people. (NPR)

Astrophysicist Janna Levin Reads Walt Whitman

July 23, 2020 Dr. Dean

The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit BIG IDEA project & exhibition

July 16, 2020 Dr. Dean

Conflagration: How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice

July 9, 2020 Dr. Dean

Thoreau, July 5th

July 2, 2020 Dr. Dean

July 5, 1840

Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.

July 5, 1845 – Walden Pond.

I know a man who never speaks of the sexual relation but jestingly, though Yesterday I came here to live. My house makes me think of some mountain houses I have seen, which seemed to have a fresher auroral atmosphere about them, as I fancy of the halls of Olympus