On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau decided it was time to be alone ... a historian at the National Portrait Gallery. “What he did in the book was he took those two years of experiences ...

Henry David Thoreau is often celebrated as the man who turned ... Walls draws a stunningly vivid portrait of Thoreau as a man who, even as a child, believed that to be a writer was his highest calling ...

In honor of Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday ... the only two original photographic images of Thoreau and a rare daguerreotype portrait of his sister, Sophia. Coincidentally, the Concord ...

Stone pillars delineate the actual site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin on the shores ... with Monika Sziladi "After Winslow Homer: Portrait of the Artist as 'The Trapper'" (Courtesy of the artists ...

The journal of Henry David Thoreau, June 1850 Not long before Henry ... first-time novelist John Pipkin has written a marvelously imagined portrait of the author as an unsettled young man who ...

Henry David Thoreau’s river journals from the 19th century are now helping scientists understanding the effects of climate change on New England's seasons. Thoreau's meticulous notes on river ...

Aim above morality. Be not simply good — be good for something." — Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau, writer, naturalist, and philosopher, was born in Concord, Massachusetts ...