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

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 ...

Henry David Thoreau was an essayist, a poet, and a philosopher. Along with his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau was a leader of the transcendentalist movement. He is known for his book ...

Writer, philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. Associated with the Concord-based literary movement called New England Transcendentalism, he ...

In chaotic political times, when our health and spirits feel low, a long walk may be just the restorative medicine we need PROVIDENCE — The transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau preferred the ...

Let’s take a moment to consider the words of one of America’s most prominent and esoteric philosophers, Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is best known as a New England Transcendentalist who spent the ...

Walls has researched the intersections of literature and science in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Alexander von Humboldt and related authors. She specializes in American ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. By Alex Vadukul and Tony Luong In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on ...