Thoreau’s work as a pioneering physical scientist is almost invisible in popular culture, according to a geologist and ...

Thoreau is introduced to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the radical ideas of transcendentalism. After graduating from Harvard Divinity School, Henry David Thoreau is introduced to an electrifying new social ...

It happened this past week ... the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau on July 12th, 1817. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

Henry David Thoreau was a prolific American writer and naturalist. What we might consider “stunt journalism” today, Thoreau spent more than two years living alone in the woods near Walden Pond in ...

Henry David Thoreau, the essayist and poet whose book “Walden” still resonates with fans of nature and the environment in the modern era, was born 200 years ago Wednesday. Admirers of the pioneering ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind ...

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, ...

No other 19th-century American writer manages to annoy today’s readers like Henry David Thoreau. In recent years, prominent writers have described him as “narcissistic” and “inestimably priggish and ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Henry David Thoreau’s classic book Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) helped establish the nature writing tradition ...

George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded, but a new PBS documentary (mostly) leads by example in stressing the first syllable. By Sarah Lyall Cuando no te pones de ...

A new iteration of the Bravo franchise begins and the second season of “Your Friends & Neighbors” premieres. By Shivani Gonzalez George Clooney, Meryl Streep and other voice actors had to be persuaded ...

The Morgan Library & Museum presents Come Together: 3,000 Years of Stories and Storytelling, an exhibition exploring the rich history of storytelling through remarkable objects from the Morgan’s ...