Charlotte Forten, Nature Writer
by Mollie Barnes Charlotte Forten’s Journals, especially the volumes that document the years when she worked as the first Black…
Frederick Douglass, “Niagara”
by Matthias Klestil The article discusses Frederick Douglass’s “Niagara” (1843), a handwritten note in which the author describes Douglass’s first impressions…
Environmental Double Consciousness and Thoreauvian Intertextuality in Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative
by Megan Cole This essay proposes that Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative (c.1853-1861)—a novel believed to be the first ever…
Martin Delany: Labor, Ecology, and Black Freedom
by Alex Moskowitz This essay asks what it would mean to think through Martin Delany’s political commitments as being deeply…
Making Walden and Its Sandbank
“Making Walden and Its Sandbank: An expanded digital version featuring manuscript pages from the Journal” by William Rossi Close and…
Birds as Moral Measure -Thoreau and Audubon as Men of Their Time: Choosing Sins of Hate or Love and Doing Better
by J. Drew Lanham Excerpted from the Keynote Address given at the Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society, July 2022…
Editor’s Pages – Volume 30 / 2022
by Kathleen Coyne Kelly We all follow different processes as we write. Attempting to describe how we arrive at our arguments…