The Transcendental Generation is the name given by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1792 to 1821. The proud offspring of a secular new nation, this generation included the first children to be portraited (and named at birth) as individuals. Coming of age as evangelists, reformers, and campus rioters, they triggered the Second Great Awakening, a spiritual paroxysm across the nation. As crusading young adults, their divergent inner visions exacerbated sectional divisions. Entering midlife, graying abolitionists and Southerners spurned compromise and led the nation into the American Civil War, their zeal fired by the moral pronouncements of an aging clergy. The victors achieved emancipation but were blocked from imposing a peace as punishing as the old radicals would like to have wished. In elderhood, their feminists and poets (many with flowing beards) became unyielding expositors of truth and justice. Strauss and Howe (William Strauss and Neil Howe) are a duo of authors who are famous for their books on generations and history. ... Strauss and Howe (William Strauss and Neil Howe) are a duo of authors who are famous for their books on generations and history. ... William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (ISBN 0688119123) and The Fourth Turning divide Anglo-American history into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history, and divide the saecula into generations by birth year, and classify generations and historical periods into four types each. ... Generation (From the Greek γιγνομαι), also known as procreation, is the act of producing offspring. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. ... Paroxysm can have several meanings. ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Combatants Union (remaining U.S. states) Confederate States of America Commanders Abraham Lincoln† Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee Strength 2,213,363 1,064,200 Casualties KIA: 110,100 Total dead: 359,500 Wounded: 275,200 KIA: 94,000 Total dead: 258,000 Wounded: 137,000+  The... Look up emancipation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The Transcendentals' typical grandparents were of the Liberty Generation. Their parents were of the Republican Generation and Compromise Generation. Their children were of the Gilded Generation and Progressive Generation and their typical grandchildren were of the Missionary Generation. The Liberty Generation is that name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1724 to 1741. ... The Republican Generation is the name given to that generation of Americans born from 1742 to 1766 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Compromise Generation is that name given to the generation of Americans born from 1767 to 1791 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. ...

Altogether, there were about 11 million Americans born from 1792 to 1821. 20 percent were immigrants and 13 percent were slaves at any point in their lives.

Members

Sample Transcendentals with birth and death dates as this generation is fully ancestral include the following: William Strauss and Neil Howe in their books Generations (ISBN 0688119123) and The Fourth Turning divide Anglo-American history into saecula, or seasonal cycles of history, and divide the saecula into generations by birth year, and classify generations and historical periods into four types each. ... The Awakening Generation is the name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1701 to 1723. ... The First Great Awakening was a religious movement among American colonial Protestants in the 1730s and 1740s. ... The Liberty Generation is that name given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to those Americans born from 1724 to 1741. ... The Republican Generation is the name given to that generation of Americans born from 1742 to 1766 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Compromise Generation is that name given to the generation of Americans born from 1767 to 1791 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations. ... The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment. ... The Gilded Generation is the name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for the generation of Americans born from 1822 to 1842. ... The Progressive Generation is a name coined by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations for that generation of Americans born from 1843 to 1859. ... The Third Great Awakening was a period in American history from 1886 to 1908. ... The Missionary Generation is the designation given by Strauss and Howe in their book Generations to that generation in the United States of America born from 1860 to 1882. ... The term Lost Generation was coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression. ... Interbellum Generation is a term sometimes used to denote persons born in the United States during the first decade of the 20th Century, often expressed specifically as the years 1901 through 1910. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... The Greatest Generation is a term sometimes used to denote the younger half of what is often referred to as the G.I. Generation. ... The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1930s, the years between World War I and World War II, particularly in North America, largely coinciding with the Roaring Twenties; with the rise of the Great Depression, the values of this age saw much decline. ... The name Silent Generation was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time. ... A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II. In the United States, the term is commonly used to refer to the generation which demographic popularizers have identified with birth years from the... The term Beat Generation refers primarily to a group of American writers of the 1950s whose work strongly influenced the cultural transformations of the 60s. ... Generation Jones, according to American social scientist Jonathan Pontell (born 1958), consists of those Americans born between the years 1954 and 1965 (inclusive). ... The Consciousness Revolution was a period of spiritual awakening in American history, according to Strauss and Howe in their books Generations and Fourth Turning. ... Baby Busters is a name for a demographic group born in the United States, and sometimes Canada, from 1958 through 1968. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The MTV Generation is a term describing a generation gap or sub-generation that includes the end of the Generation X (a generation following the Baby Boom, especially Americans and Canadians born in the 1960s and 1970s) yet importantly includes the elders of Generation Y (a generation considered to follow... The term Culture Wars has been used to describe ideologically-driven and often strident confrontations typical of American public culture and politics since the 1960s, but especially beginning in the 1980s. ... Boomerang Generation is a term not uncommonly used to describe the current generation of young adults in contemporary western culture, having been born between the years of roughly 1981-1986 and possibly later than 1986. ... It has been suggested that iGeneration be merged into this article or section. ... iGeneration is a term used to describe the generation born primarily in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... The New Silent Generation is a proposed holding name used by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their demographic history of America, Generations to describe the generation whose birth years begin in 2001 and continue to an as yet unknown year in the future. ...

• 1792 Thaddeus Stevens (1868)
• 1793 Sam Houston (1863)
• 1795 Dred Scott (1858)
• 1797 Sojourner Truth (1883)
• 1800 John Brown (1859)
• 1800 Nat Turner (1831)
• 1801 Brigham Young (1877)
• 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882)
• 1805 Joseph Smith, Jr. (1844)
• 1805 William Lloyd Garrison (1879)
• 1807 Robert E. Lee (1870)
• 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1882)
• 1807 Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1890)
• 1808 Jefferson Davis (1889)
• 1809 Edgar Allan Poe (1849)
• 1810 P.T. Barnum (1891)
• 1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896)
• 1813 John C. Frémont (1890)
• 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1902)
• 1817 Frederick Douglass (1895)
• 1817 Henry David Thoreau (1862)
• 1819 Walt Whitman (1892)
• c. 1820 Harriet Tubman (1913)
• 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman (1891)
• 1820 Susan B. Anthony (1906)
• 1821 Mary Baker Eddy (1910)

The Transcendentals had five U.S. Presidents: Thaddeus Stevens Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 - August 11, 1868), also known as The Great Commoner, was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. ... Sam Houston Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) 19th century statesman, politician and soldier. ... Dred Scott Dred Scott (ca. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John Browns Oath Engraving from daguerreotype by Augustus Washington, ca. ... Error creating thumbnail: convert: unable to open image `/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/en/5/5c/Nat_Turner_Slave_Rebellion. ... Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877) was the second prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). ... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American essayist and one of the United States most influential thinkers and writers. ... Joseph Smith, Jr. ... William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805, – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. ... Robert E. Lee, 1863 Portrait by Julian Vannerson Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 10, 1872) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride and Evangeline. ... Don Mariano Guadeloupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 - 18 January 1890) was a Californian military commander, politician, and rancher. ... For other uses, see Jefferson Davis (disambiguation). ... This daguerreotype of Poe was taken less than a year before his death at the age of 40. ... Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Toms Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial... John C. Frémont John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813–July 13, 1890), born John Charles Fremon, was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the United States Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first Presidential candidate of a major... Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter Harriot. ... Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. ... Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden, on simple living amongst nature, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, on resistance to civil government and... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... Harriet Tubman in 1880 Harriet Tubman (born 1820 or 1822 in Dorchester County, Maryland, died March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York), also known as Black Moses, Grandma Moses, or Moses of Her People, was an African-American abolitionist. ... William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. ... Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28 Susan Brownell Anthony, (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Womens suffrage in the United States. ... Mary Baker Eddy Mary Morse Baker, better known as Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 - December 3, 1910) founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. ...

• 1795 James K. Polk, 1845-1849 (1849)
• 1800 Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 (1874)
• 1804 Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 (1869)
• 1808 Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 (1875)
• 1809 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 (1865)

The Transcendentals held a plurality in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 to 1869, a plurality in the U.S. Senate from 1841 to 1873, and the majority of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1861 to 1889. James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) the eleventh President of the United States, served from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849. ... Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nations highest office. ... Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was an American politician and the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. ... For other people named Andrew Johnson, see Andrew Johnson (disambiguation). ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... take you to calendar). ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Sample cultural endowments of the Transcendentals include the following:

• The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison
• Walden, "Civil Disobedience", Henry D. Thoreau
• Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
• Encyclopaedia Americana, Francis Lieber
• Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
• The Transcendentalist, Ralph W. Emerson
• The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
• "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", (song, Julia Ward Howe)
• The Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, Jr. (although he claimed to have received the translation of it from God)
• The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis

This article is about the abolitionist newspaper. ... This article is about a book by Henry Thoreau. ... It has been suggested that Civil and social disobedience be merged into this article or section. ... The only known photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated, center), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. ... The Encyclopedia Americana is a reference work which is the second largest printed general encyclopedia in the English language (after the Encyclopaedia Britannica). ... Francis Lieber (March 18, 1798, Berlin, Germany - October 2, 1872, New York City), originally known as Franz Lieber, was a German-American jurist and political philosopher. ... Walt Whitman, age 37, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St. ... Walt Whitman Walt Whitman (born Walter Whitman) (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist born on Long Island, New York. ... Ralph Waldo Emersons The Transcendentalist is one of the essays he wrote while establishing the doctrine of American Transcendentalism. ... This article is about the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. ... The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a variation for the words to the marching song John Browns Body. It was first published on the front page of The Atlantic Monthly... Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. ... The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (softcover missionary edition) The Book of Mormon is one of four sacred texts of Mormonism, which also include the Bible, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenants. ... Joseph Smith, Jr. ... Salem Custom House The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is a classic American prose romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne illustrated in an 1870 publication. ... Bold textthe rise & fall of the confederate goverment was wrote by jeff davis when he was 70 years of age, it was not a big hit then for the south at the time was poor & the north was rich but didnt like the book for he & the south had a...

Foreign Peers

• Pope Pius IX (1792-1878)
• Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• August Comte (1798-1857)
• Jules Michelet (1798-1874)
• Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
• Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
• Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
• Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)
• Heinrich Lenz (1804-1865)
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
• Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
• Benito Juárez (1806-1872)
• Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
• Pierre Proudhon (1809-1865)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
• Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903)
• Évariste Galois (1811-1832)
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• Alexander Herzen (1812-1870)
• Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
• Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
• Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
• Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)
• George Boole (1815-1864)
• Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892)
• Karl Marx (1818-1883)
• James Joule (1818-1889)
• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
• Arthur Cayley (1821-1895)

Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), was Pope for a record pontificate (not counting the Apostle St. ... The most familiar view of Carlyle is as the bearded sage with a penetrating gaze. ... Franz Schubert. ... Auguste Comte Auguste Comte (full name Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte) (January 17 (recorded January 19), 1798 _ September 5, 1857) was a positivist thinker and a founder of the discipline of sociology. ... Jules Michelet (August 21, 1798–February 9, 1874) was a French historian. ... Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a French novelist. ... J H Newman age 23 when he preached his first Sermon John Henry Newman (February 21, 1801 – August 11, 1890) was an English convert to Catholicism, later made a cardinal. ... Niels Henrik Abel (August 5, 1802–April 6, 1829), Norwegian mathematician, was born in Finnøy. ... Mikhail Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (Russian: Mihail Ivanovič Glinka) (June 1 [O.S. May 20] 1804 - February 15 [O.S. February 3] 1857), was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition inside his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music. ... Heinrich Friedrich Emil Lenz (February 12, 1804 - February 10, 1865) was a Baltic German physicist most famous for formulating Lenzs law in 1833. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hans Christian Andersen. ... Term of office: March 1861 to 1863 (first term) – 1867 to 1871 (second term) Preceded by: Ignacio Comonfort (1861), Maximilian I (Emperor) (1867) Succeeded by: Maximilian I (1863), Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada interim (1873) Date of birth: March 21, 1806 Place of birth: San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca Date of... In his lifetime Charles Darwin gained international fame as an influential scientist examining controversial topics. ... Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (pronounced [] in BrE, [] in French) (January 15, 1809 – January 19, 1865) was the first proclaimed anarchist of the 19th century. ... Frédéric François Chopin as portrayed by Eugène Delacroix in 1838. ... Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci (March 2, 1810 – July 20, 1903), was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, having succeeded Pope Pius IX (1846–78) on February 20, 1878 and reigning until his death in 1903. ... Galois at the age of fifteen from the pencil of a classmate. ... Charles Dickens was a prolific writer who was almost always working on a new installment for a story and rarely missed a deadline. ... Alexander Herzen in 1867 Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ге́рцен) (April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 in Moscow - January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870 in Paris) was a major Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the father of Russian socialism. He is held responsible for creating a political climate... Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 in Leipzig[1] – February 13, 1883 in Venice[2]) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). ... Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (Trolo) (Russian — Михаил Александрович Бакунин, Michel Bakunin — on the grave in Bern), (May 30, 1814–June 13, 1876) was a well known Russian anarchist. ... For alternative meanings: See Bismarck (disambiguation). ... St. ... George Boole [], (November 2, 1815 Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England – December 8, 1864 Ballintemple, Cork City, Ireland) was a mathematician and philosopher. ... Shrine of Baháulláh Baháulláh (Arabic: ‎ translation: Glory of God) (1817 - 1892), born Mírzá Husayn-`Alí (Persian: ‎ ), was the founder and prophet of the Baháí Faith. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883 London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Salford, near Manchester. ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the eminent Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death in 1901. ... Florence Nightingale, OM (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, was a pioneer of modern nursing. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... Arthur Cayley (August 16, 1821 - January 26, 1895) was a British mathematician. ...

See also

• Transcendentalism