Historic Concord, Massachusetts made famous for the shots heard around the world, the outbreak of hostilities at the beginning the American Revolutionary War, is also famous as a center for the Transcendentalists,  a  mid 19th century group of philosophers and writers renowned for their belief in nature and man's relationship to the natural world.

For more information see:

Books

A Journey into the Transcendentalists New England by R. Todd Felton

American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau; Their lives, Their loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever

 

See also: Individual works by these authors and  numerous articles and websites on the Internet that describe the work and beliefs of the Transcendentalists and the following websites for more information about places to visit in Concord:

https://visitconcord.org/listing-category/museums-historic-sites/

https://newengland.com/today/travel/massachusetts/concord/historic-concord-ma/