PROVIDENCE — Henry David Thoreau arrived by train at Union Station in December 1854 on his only visit to the city. He had been invited by a group of progressive thinkers to deliver a paid public ...

LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...

Henry David Thoreau returned to Concord from his July climb and overnight on Mount Greylock, with a side trip to the Catskills, by Aug. 1, 1844, in time to ring the courthouse bell to summon people to ...

To commemorate Henry David Thoreau’s 200 th birthday on July 12, the New York Times last week featured an essay by historian Douglas Brinkley based on a complete misinterpretation of one of Thoreau’s ...

This summer, W. E. Smith Professor of History Steven Conn was invited as a Miami Faculty Fellow to the renowned Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York state. There he gave a lecture following ...

Born 200 years ago, Henry David Thoreau could be considered the first environmental author, as he lived at one with nature in Walden Woods and shared his thoughts on preserving nature and finding God ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Some remaining thoughts from readers on the lovable crank, Henry David ...

Henry David Thoreau: A Life. By Laura Dassow Walls. University of Chicago Press; 613 pages; $35 and £26.50. ON AN April night in 1844, a distraught Henry David Thoreau walked through the blackened ...

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