Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henry David Thoreau's nineteenth-century East Coast wanderings did not take him far from home. They included a childhood in ...

Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...

Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s ...

When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we think of him at Walden. Indeed, readers might be forgiven for imagining that he passed his entire adult life there, planting beans and bouncing pebbles off the ...