When you think about the Sun, you might think about a bright yellow circle, reminiscent from your childhood drawings and textbook illustrations. But is this depiction scientifically accurate? The ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts.

Fuller’s new book, “Bright Circle: Five Remarkable Women in the Age of Transcendentalism,” chronicles that time and place, and especially those women: Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody ...