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 ...

Tracy Fullerton, game designer, educator and writer, best known for Walden, a game. Professor in the USC Interactive Media & ...

On this eight-degree morning, with clean sunlight flooding the upstairs office and a small dog asleep on the couch behind my ...

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

CONCORD - American literary icon Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days at Walden Pond, writing what would later be published as his book "Walden." Now, nearly 180 years later, ...

One hundred and seventy-four years ago, on July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau, age 28, moved into a 10 x 15 x 8 feet cabin he built himself from pine wood and recycled materials on the shore of Walden ...

The Thoreau Society honors the author’s legacy with the sustainable, LEED Gold Walden Pond Visitor Center in Massachusetts. This eco-friendly building pays homage to naturalist Thoreau, who wrote ...

IN July, 1945, we celebrated the centennial of Henry David Thoreau’s retirement to Walden Pond. Almost twice as many old ladies as usual made the pilgrimage to Concord, to see the shrine containing ...

When Henry David Thoreau wrote the immensely influential classic Walden; Or, Life in the Woods about simple living in natural surroundings, it’s safe to say he wasn’t envisioning a waterfront mansion.

THE most point-blank and authoritative criticism within my knowledge that Thoreau has received at the hands of his countrymen came from the pen of Lowell about 1864, and was included in My Study ...

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau’s ...