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 ...

Henry David Thoreau famously wrote of "the sunshine of a winter's day," and now the simple place that inspired him the most is going solar. Officials are breaking ground on a new visitor's center at ...

Two historians hired as interpreters at Walden Pond share their knowledge and deep enthusiasm for Henry David Thoreau.

Two years, two months and two days. That’s how long Henry David Thoreau (1817-1863) spent in the little 10’x15’ cabin he built on the beautiful, wooded Walden Pond near Concord, MA, where his family ...

Human activity around the pristine pond where Henry David Thoreau wrote his famous book Walden, or, Life in the Woods is altering its ecosystem, new research finds. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

Robert Thorson says that while the pond is certainly a large part of Thoreau's legacy, the rivers that flowed around him are a better metaphor for... Thoreau Was Known For Walden Pond, But One Scholar ...

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 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 ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.