In October of 2015, the New Yorker magazine ran an article by award-winning journalist Kathryn Schulz ttitled “Pond Scum: The Real Henry David Thoreau.” (The title was later changed in the ...
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 ...