The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," ...

Nineteenth century author Henry David Thoreau did just that, on July 4, 1845, at Walden Pond in Concord. His famous two-year ...

Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

Introduction : land of the grass-ground river -- Part I. The making of Thoreau. Concord sons and daughters -- Higher learning from Concord to Harvard (1826-1837) -- Transcendental apprentice ...

Introduction -- A brief biography of Henry David Thoreau -- Part One, Thoreau as seen by his contemporaries -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "A slight, quaint-looking person" / Daniel Ricketson -- ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One summer evening, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau threw a party—a melon party, to be precise, a ...

Henry David Thoreau was a writer, a scientist, a seeker of truth, and a fighter for maintaining our nation’s first principles. Yet our knowledge of him is largely incomplete, outdated, and often ...