On July 4,1845, Henry David Thoreau built a cabin at Walden woods in Concord and challenged what he called the “restless, nervous, bustling, trivial 19th century.” His full message delivered in Walden ...

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 ...

Richard Smith spent 26 years in Henry David Thoreau’s clothes, but this was the first time there was another "Henry" in the room. Until his recent retirement, Smith, an author and historian, served as ...

Several scholars have recently published examinations of Henry David Thoreau’s spirituality and life philosophy, offering musings about what the iconic sage at Walden Pond really thought about God and ...

Thoreau Voiced by Jeff Goldblum, Film Narrated by George Clooney, Additional Voices by Ted Danson, Tate Donovan, and Meryl Streep November 21, 2025 - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, a new, three-part, three-hour ...

Concord, MA, USA July 10, 2009 A wooden marker denotes the site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin in Walden Pond, where he would write is famous essay Walden. Credit: iStock Henry David Thoreau is the ...