Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance, yet his life has been obscured by myth. The author of Walden and Civil Disobedience, he was brilliant but flawed, ...
The phrase “that government is best which governs least” is often credited to Henry David Thoreau, in his 1849 “Civil Disobedience,” or “Resistance to Civil Government.” (It’s also sometimes credited ...
Sentinel & Enterprise: Lunenburg native to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’
This week, we have a lecture by Laura Walls, Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Wall’s lecture is titled “Henry David Thoreau’s Legacy of Resistance and Hope,” and is ...
LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...
Thoreau's refusal to support what he saw as injustice culminates in his essay "Civil Disobedience." After refusing to pay four years of poll taxes, Thoreau is briefly imprisoned. Thoreau is adamantly ...
THE DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU by Walter Harding. 472 pages. Knopf. $7.95. Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not ...
Yahoo: A new PBS documentary reveals why Henry David Thoreau's radicalism resonates today
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind to titles of ...