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Primary Resources:
The
Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods
Owned and operated by the Walden
Woods Project, the Thoreau Institute provides the most
comprehensive body of Thoreau-related material available in one
place. Opening in 1998, the Thoreau Institute’s Library
holds 8000 volumes, and upwards of 60,000 items that include manuscripts,
correspondence, periodicals, pamphlets, music, graphic arts, maps,
and personal histories. It is the mission of the Library to collect,
preserve and make available research materials relating to Thoreau,
his historical context, and his contemporary relevance to environmental
and human-rights issues.
The Thoreau
Institute’s increasing collections range from the unprecedented
Thoreau Society’s collections, including the personal collection
of the dean of Thoreau scholars, Walter Harding, to the environmental
writings of Paul Brooks, and the social reform papers of Scott
and Helen Nearing.
The Institute
continues to make many resources available on its web site --
not only writings by Thoreau, but also works about his life, work
and philosophies. Find out more by visiting these pages:
The
Thoreau Reader
The
Thoreau Reader is part of the eserver
project at Iowa State University. It offers e-texts of Thoreau's
Walden,
his travel books Cape
Cod, and The
Maine Woods, and the essays "Civil
Disobedience," "Life
without Principle," "Slavery
in Massachusetts," and "Walking."
The Thoreau Reader site also offers links to other scholarly
and teaching materials.
Recommended
for books for teachers and educators:
- Bickman, Martin,
ed. Uncommon
Learning: Henry David Thoreau on Education. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1999.
- Bode, Carl. The
Portable Thoreau.
- Cain, William E.
Historical
Guide to Henry David Thoreau. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
- Meltzer, Milton
and Harding, Walter. A
Thoreau Profile. Lincoln, MA, The Thoreau Society, 1998.
- Myerson, Joel.
The
Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999.
- Thoreau, Henry
David. Walden:
An Annotated Edition (by Walter Harding). Boston: Houghton
MIfflin, 1999.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
Walking.
Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1992.
Additional Online Links
and Resources:
Beyond
Twilight: Historic Walks of Old Concord, Massachusetts
The area's only ghost walk, featuring spirits, legends
and lore.
(http://www.beyondtwilightwalks.com)
Botanical
Index to the Journal of Henry David Thoreau
Ray Angelo's book, come to life online.
(http://neatlas.huh.harvard.edu/ThoreauBotIdx/)
Brief
Timeline of American Literature and Events, pre-1620-1920
A short
chronology of events in American history and literature.
(http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/timefram.html)
Concord Free Public Library
The Concord Free Public Library supports the editing and preparation of The Thoreau Society Bulletin. The CFPL Special Collections houses the Kovar Collection of Walden editions. The library is an excellent community resource.
Richard
Smith as Henry D. Thoreau
Information about Richard's Living History portrayal of Henry
D. Thoreau
http://web.mac.com/jessicaludlumwright/iWeb/RichardSmith/Welcome.html
Teaching
Thoreau: Resources for Educators
From
the Thoreau Project, a non-profit initiative of Calliope, Inc.
(http://www.calliope.org/thoreau/thoroteach.html)
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Life with
Principle
In his essay,
"Life without Principle," Thoreau mused: “Let
us consider the way in which we spend our lives.”
This
DVD package from the Thoreau Society helps teachers, students,
and life-long learners do just that: consider the ways they
spend their lives. For more information:
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