Web Search Results for "Henry David Thoreau"

Henry David Thoreau - Wikipedia
28 Jan 2026 at 8:02pm
Thoreau was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown.

Henry David Thoreau - Encyclopedia Britannica
30 Jan 2026 at 12:40am
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay ?Civil Disobedience? (1849).

Henry David Thoreau - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
26 Jan 2026 at 1:59pm
Henry David Thoreau (1817?1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - The Walden Woods Project
26 Jan 2026 at 4:05am
As a scientist, Thoreau embraced the controversial work of Darwin, and developed theories of forest succession at the same time one of Harvard?s leading naturalists, Louis Agassiz, was still touting the spontaneous generation of plants.

A Short Biography of Henry D. Thoreau
27 Jan 2026 at 1:55am
He was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau, but since everyone always called him Henry, he eventually changed his name to Henry David, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change.

Henry David Thoreau - World History Encyclopedia
30 Jan 2026 at 12:57pm
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and writer. He was a transcendentalist and is most famous for his book Walden and his essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.

Thoreau?s Life ? The Thoreau Society | Outreach. Education. Advocacy
28 Jan 2026 at 3:37pm
Thoreau was an ardent and outspoken abolitionist, serving as a conductor on the underground railroad to help escaped slaves make their way to Canada. He wrote strongly-worded attacks on the Fugitive Slave Law (?Slavery in Massachusetts?) and on the execution of John Brown.

Thoreau, Henry David | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
30 Jan 2026 at 6:45am
The American author Henry David Thoreau is best known for his magnum opus Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854); second to this in popularity is his essay, ?Resistance to Civil Government? (1849), which was later republished posthumously as ?Civil Disobedience? (1866).

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
27 Jan 2026 at 3:24pm
Extensive site devoted to the writings, philosophy, life of Henry David Thoreau; created by The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, definitive edition of Thoreau's works, directed by Elizabeth Hall Witherell.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden, Books & Life - Biography
28 Jan 2026 at 6:14pm
American essayist, poet and practical philosopher, Henry David Thoreau was a New England Transcendentalist and author of the book 'Walden.'



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