The article presents discussion of the public lectures of the American intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on his addresses given at the Concord Lyceum of Concord, Massachusetts. Topics addressed include an historical overview of the community of Concord with regard to its intellectual life and the institutional life of the Lyceum, accounts and examples of over 100 lectures given at the Lyceum beginning in 1833, and description of other fellow lecturers.