In this immersive historical fiction Helen Humphreys richly imagines the robust inner life of naturalist and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1861) inspired by the journals he kept from 1837 ...

The detailed notes that Henry David Thoreau kept about weather, plants, and seasons are helping scientists measure the effects of global warming. This story appears in the July 2016 issue of ...

The U.S. author and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862) was in his late 20s when he built himself a hut on the shores of Walden Pond in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where he lived a life of ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in ...