J. Drew Lanham Awarded 2024 Thoreau Prize for Nature Writing
Dr. Joseph Drew Lanham, a distinguished ornithologist, naturalist, and writer, embodies the spirit of Thoreau by combining conservation science with…
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“Thoreau’s Revolutions” Annual Gathering 2025 Call for Proposals
Next year, 2025, is the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord—a touchstone event for Concord, for Thoreau, and for us. F. O. Matthiessen says…
Speakers Bureau offers community programs
The Thoreau Society’s newly organized Speakers Bureau offers free educational programs to public libraries, community centers, senior centers, and other…
The Durable Text: Editing Thoreau
Photo: Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Paul Schacht, Bill Rossi, and Robert Sattelmeyer. Photo by Tom Potter. A plenary session at the…
Kristen Case Examines Thoreau and Time
In this year’s Dana S. Brigham Memorial Lecture, Kristen Case examined Thoreau’s rich legacy as it relates to his and…
Vert: Poet Catherine Staples in Conversation with Richard Higgins June 20th
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm A Program in Partnership with The Thoreau Society Thursday, June 20th at 7 pm at…
Thoreau’s Pencil: Annual Earth Day Forum, Concord Museum April 25th
Join historian Augustine Sedgewick in conversation with Robert A. Gross, author of Transcendentalists and Their World, for a deep dive into…
Announcing Our Interim Executive Director.
Dear friends of the Thoreau Society, We are delighted to announce that Rebecca Migdal will serve as the part-time Interim…
Staffing Transition at the Society
14 March 2024 Dear friends of the Thoreau Society, It is with real sadness that we announce the departure, as…
Thoreau Society Presenters at SAAP Boston Conference March 29th
SAAP (Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy) 51st Annual Meeting in Boston March 29-30, 2024 at The Boston Park…
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents: Author Dominic Couzens: A Year of Birdsong, April 13, 2024
A Year of Birdsong - A Book Talk with Dominic Couzens Saturday, April 13th at 2pm FREE Online Event (Zoom)…
MLA 2025 New Orleans Call for Papers: Thoreau and the (in)Visible
The Thoreau Society at the 2025 Modern Language Association Meeting in New Orleans: Call for Papers Thoreau and the (in)Visible…
The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust – Auction Fundraiser
From March 1-29, 2024, The Thoreau Society and The Thoreau Farm Trust will auction off a variety of exciting and…
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents Lawrence Millman: Outsider: My Boyhood With Thoreau
Outsider: My Boyhood With Thoreau -- A Book Talk with Lawrence Millman Thursday, April 11th at 7pm $5 IN PERSON…
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents Geoff Wisner: A Year of Birds
Thoreau and the Birds of Concord: A Book Launch with Geoff Wisner Saturday, May 11th at 6pm $15 IN PERSON…
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents Emily Monosson: Blight
Author Emily Monosson in Conversation with Brent Ranalli Sunday, March 10th at 2pm FREE BOTH IN PERSON & VIRTUAL (ZOOM) …
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents Rebecca Heisman: Flight Paths
Wild Stories from the History of Bird Migration Research: A Conversation with Flight Paths Author Rebecca Heisman How a…
The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm Presents Peggy Orenstein: Unraveling
Author Peggy Orenstein in Conversation with Rebecca Kneale Gould Saturday, January 27th at 11am $15 IN PERSON / $10…
2024 Thoreau Society Fellowships
The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce that it will offer two $1,000 fellowships in 2024 to support scholarly and…
Call for Proposals: 2024 ASLE Symposium
Green Fire Due: January 26, 2024 University of North Florida Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction Call for Individual and…
The Thoreau Society: Call for Proposals, American Literature Association 2024
The Thoreau Society is pleased to sponsor two sessions at the 35th Annual American Literature Association conference on May 23-26…
Following in Thoreau’s Footsteps at the Freedom’s Way
The Thoreau Society is happy to announce the release of the interactive Henry David Thoreau itinerary at Freedom’s Way National…
Concord Festival of Authors: The Thoreau Prize Honoring Terry Tempest Williams
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Thoreau Society, Inc. 341 Virginia Road Concord, MA 01742 Michael Frederick 978-369-5321 mike.frederick@thoreausociety.org thoreausociety.org…
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…