A rare manuscript by Thoreau, featuring his reflections on Eastham, just sold at auction as part of a limited set.

A biography of a founding figure in the American Transcendentalist movement who was a touchstone for political dissent and environmental writing, by a leading scholar.

The upright citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, didn't think much of young Henry David Thoreau ... Concord's flora Thoreau planned to turn his vast botanical records into a book, but he died ...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

WARMINSTER, PA —Poet and Philosopher Henry David Thoreau may have lived in Walden ... a literary figure best known for his book "Walden," which reflected upon simple living in a natural setting ...

It was as if she’d willed into being the likes of Bronson Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose careers she helped launch, ...

“I am on the alert for the first signs of spring,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. The author of Walden recorded first flowering times from 1852 to 1858 for more than 300 plant species in ...

On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at North Bridge, the battle that sparked the American Revolutionary War. Concord took no real note of the ...

According to a community announcement, “An Evening with Henry David Thoreau” will ... in Concord and has authored 10 books, including two focused on Thoreau. He also contributes historical ...