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Thoreau Reader. A
premier resource created by Richard Lenat and now a joint undertaking with
the Thoreau Society.
Complete online texts (some annotated) including Walden,
The Maine Woods,
Cape Cod,
Civil Disobedience,
Life without
Principle, Slavery
in Massachusetts, and Walking.
- Loaded with images, biographical sketches
and studies, spoofs, references (including a 1913 unabridged
Webster's), links to many other Thoreau sites, and excellent
teacher/student aids such as the Walden
Express.
The Thoreau Institute and
Walden Woods Project continue their urgent activism in
environmental conservation; offer innovative
education programs for
youth, educators, and lifelong learners,
and provide excellent
research facilities -- an outstanding
library and archive
right in Walden Woods. The site offers calendars of upcoming events.
The Thoreau Society,
the oldest and largest American literary society devoted to a single author,
recently moved to its own premises in Concord.
The Shop at Walden Pond
offers online purchasing of books and specialties.
The Writings of Henry D.
Thoreau -- Richly informative
site by the editors of the authoritative Writings of Henry
D. Thoreau, based at Northern Illinois University. (Still widely known as
"The Princeton Edition.") New features on this redesigned site
include Online
Journal Transcripts, a database-driven
Quotations Page (try
it!), and Thoreau's Handwriting.
Prof. Ann Woodlief's
rich, web-savvy site about the Transcendentalist authors.
Jone Johnson Lewis's
independent site offers useful
links to online texts, graphics, and biographical and historical
information (including background about Transcendentalism and
Unitarianism).
Paul P. Reuben's independent site at Cal State Stanhope offers useful links and discussions.
Houghton Mifflin's "Online Instructors'
Guide for the Heath Anthology of American Literature"
offers pages about Thoreau,
Emerson,
Margaret
Fuller, David
Walker, Frederick
Douglass, and William
Lloyd Garrison, among others, in its Early 19th Century section.
Conservation activist
Stephen Ells's
Thoreau Research Site includes superb natural history
bibliographies; profiles of many locations in “Thoreau country”; an
appreciation of the 1896 edition of Thoreau's
"Cape Cod" with sketches by Amelia Watson; and much more. (Ells
also has a Personal Home Page
that is worth your visit.)
Thoreau scholar Bradley P. Dean,
editor of Thoreau's Letters to a Spiritual Seeker (2004), has his own web site
at www.bradleypdean.com, providing a
schedule of his lectures and readings.
Thoreau
and the Underground Railroad. Right here on our own web
site, extensive information about the Underground Railroad in
New England, African-Americans in Boston and Concord, and Thoreau's
activism.
Underground
Railroad Site -- Information and links
to plenty of resources. Created by high-school teachers in a
distance-learning project.
For general information on African American life in Thoreau's Boston, see the
following:
- http://www.nps.gov/boaf/histor~1.htm
-- Historical information on nineteenth-century
black Bostonians and their liberation struggle, provided by the
National Park Service's Boston African American National Historic
Site.
- http://www.afroammuseum.org/trail.htm -- Boston's African American community in the 1800s.
An online Black Heritage Trail by the Museum of Afro American
History.
And...
Did you know that Thoreau made his living as a land surveyor? It was a
profession he loved -- it kept him outdoors, the hours were flexible, and he
served his community. Now the
Concord Free Public Library offers web pages with all of Thoreau's
hand-drawn maps and diagrams. The same library houses the
Thoreau
Papers.
And sample some other online readings--
Read Thoreau's Natural
History of Massachusetts, (1842), his first major prose work,
online.
"Concord
Writers on the Web" - Links to texts by & about
Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts, provided by the town of Concord.
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