Actor Cheyenne Jackson turns 50 and NBA player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander turns 27, among famous birthdays for July 12.

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

Henry David Thoreau, writer, naturalist, and philosopher, was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. When he graduated from Harvard in 1837, jobs were scarce, as a great economic downturn had ...

Henry David Thoreau rose with the winter sun for his morning excursion. He set out along the old Indian paths winding their way through the woods, made newly visible by the light snow that had ...

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 self ...

Scientists using Henry David Thoreau's book to study climate change in Massachusetts 03:46. CONCORD - American literary icon Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days at Walden ...

But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he’s credited with introducing, “brain rot,” is the Oxford University Press’s word or ...

The Barnstable Land Trust will host a "Cape Cod" by Henry David Thoreau read-a-thon at the Michael R. Kramer Center barn at Fuller Farm in celebration of its 40th anniversary.