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 ...

It happened this past week ... the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau on July 12th, 1817. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, ...

"In Search of Thoreau's Flowers," on view at the Gregg Museum through January, takes visitors on a walk around Walden Pond.

Henry David Thoreau is rightly known for the time he spent at Walden Pond near his home in Concord, Massachusetts. But a new book offers a different take on the famous author and naturalist. Author ...

As someone who tramps about Henry David Thoreau’s Concord for many miles each year, I find myself pulled more toward the lesser-known forests where the man himself walked, rather than Walden Pond, ...

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 ...

It was early June, still too soon for the summer influx of beachgoers and holidaymakers, when I visited America’s most famous pond. The only people besides photographer Tim Laman and me were a few ...

A view of the timeless Walden Pond on May 23 in Concord, Mass. (Elise Amendola / The Associated Press) Is there a more misunderstood American icon than Henry David Thoreau? You know, that lazy moocher ...

Henry David Thoreau went to the woods because, as he famously put it, “I wished to live deliberately.” Two centuries after the “Walden” author’s birth, people are still deliberately following in ...

In “Bright Circle,” Randall Fuller shines a light on the women behind — and before — the male philosophers of 19th-century Massachusetts. By Francesca Wade The discovery of ammunition from the 1700s ...