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Primary Sources relating to early UU history around Boston
Online videos:
Playlist of the libretto Our Transcendentalist Passion:
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On the libretto of Our Transcendental Passion – OTP Conversations with Megan Marshall | PJR Music Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Megan Marshall speaks of how she learned and contributed to the composite text of Our Transcendental Passion. |
Emerson, Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism
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Emerson, Thoreau and American Transcendentalism Subscribe at no cost and tune into a presentation about the origins of American Transcendentalism and where it all got started: Concord, Massachusetts. Dig deep into the lives and ideas of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and how they made Concord, Massachusetts, the epicenter of American Transcendentalist thought and action in the first half of the 19th century. Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement encompassing belief in individualism, the divinity of nature, and idealism. Recorded live on May 15, 2024. |
Elizabeth Peabody Book store: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh4kiV28BE
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love: https://two17films.com/free-streaming/ralph-waldo-emerson-give-all-to-love/
Free Audiobook of Walden
Sermons, Essays, Stories
“A Letter from Rev. Hosea Ballou to Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher” by Hosea Ballou
The Universalist Pulpit by Hosea Ballou and others
Note: Ballou’s sermon, The Author’s Ministry, written near the end of life, acts as a summation of his theological position and a capstone of his ministerial work. He died shortly after writing this sermon at the age of 81.
“Unitarian Christianity” by William Ellery Channing
“Slavery’s Pleasant Homes” by Lydia Maria Child
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson*
“The Harvard Divinity School Address” by Ralph Waldo Emerson*
“The Celestial Railroad” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“On the Equality of the Sexes” by Judith Murray
“The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity” by Theodore Parker
“Walking” by Henry David Thoreau*
“Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau*
Note: If anyone reads The Aesthetic Papers, it is in there as well under its original name.
Winchester Profession and other professions of faith
Periodicals & Journals relating to early UU history around Boston
The Aesthetic Papers by Elizabeth Peabody
The Dial volume 1 of particular interest are:
The Editors to the Reader – Emerson and Fuller
The Divine Presence in Nature and in the Soul – Parker
Letter to a Theological Student – Ripley
Orphic Sayings – Alcott
The Unitarian Movement in New England – William Dexter Wilson
Books relating to early UU history around Boston
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott*
Moods by Louisa May Alcott
The Ancient History of Universalism by Hosea Ballou
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne*
Woman in the 19th Century by Margaret Fuller
Walden by Henry David Thoreau*
Secondary Sources relating to early UU history around Boston
Affinities and Animosities: Universalists and Unitarians in the Formative Period by Ernest Cassara
Hosea Ballou: The Challenge to Orthodoxy by Ernest Cassara
American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever*
The Transcendentalists and their World by Robert A Gross*
The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall*
Eden’s Outcasts by John Matteson*
“Theodore Parker and the Moral Universe” NPR
Secondary sources relating to UU history more broadly
“A Timeline of the Black Empowerment Controversy in American Unitarian Universalism” compiled by Julie Kain
Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy by Mark D. Morrison-Reed
American Universalism by George Hunston Williams
Universalists and Unitarians in America: A People’s History by John A Buehrens
The Universalist Church of America: A Short History by Clinton Lee Scott
*are items that can be found at the public library. If it is available online, it has a hyperlink. Items are in no particular order.