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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: An expanded  digital version featuring manuscript pages from the Journal” by William Rossi Close and…

by J. Drew Lanham Excerpted from the Keynote Address given at the Annual Gathering of the Thoreau Society, July 2022…

by Kathleen Coyne Kelly We all follow different processes as we write. Attempting to describe how we arrive at our arguments…

July 10, 2023 The Thoreau Society been awarded a Staffing Recovery Grant from Mass Humanities. The 2023 Staffing Recovery Grants…

The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm Online Auction begins March 1, 2023. You can support us by donating items to our auction, like this signed copy of Mary Oliver's "Devotions."

This year's Annual Gathering explores the themes of Thoreau, politics, and extinction. We are planning an in-person conference in Concord, Massachusetts. Proposals are due December 1st.

The Thoreau Society at the Modern Language Association, 2023 (San Francisco) Title of Session: “Transcendentalism, Spirituality, and Social Justice” In…

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fourth annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) Graduate Student Fellowship.

In conjunction with the Robert Frost Society, the Thoreau Society is pleased to sponsor these two sessions at the upcoming…

The Thoreau Society NEH 2022 Summer Institute: Spend two weeks in Concord, Massachusetts immersed in this topic with seminars and…

“A life within a life”: Thoreau, Ecopoetics and a Dictionary of the Indian Languages Michael Jonik, University of Sussex At…

The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years…

CONCORD, MA (July 1, 2021) – The Thoreau Society announced today that the botanist and best-selling author Robin Wall Kimmerer…

Laura Dassow Walls, the award-winning biographer of Henry David Thoreau, will deliver a virtual talk “‘A Vast and Indefinite Loss’: Thoreau’s Reflections on Nature and Slavery” as part of the Forest History Society’s virtual lecture series Unprecedented Seasons.

Dear Friends, The Thoreau Society and Thoreau Farm would like to thank you for your support of our online "fun"-raising…

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the third annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) Graduate Student Fellowship.

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the sixth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.

Register for "More Day to Dawn." “'There Is More Day to Dawn': A Global Conversation Celebrating Teaching and Diversity" October…

Henry David Thoreau and his fellow Transcendentalists sparked a literary revolution, 60 years after the American Revolution in the tiny…

We announce with sadness the passing of longtime Thoreau Society member Bob Galvin, who served several terms on the TS…

"Henry David Thoreau: Son of Concord," a talk by Robert Gross, June 13, 7:00 PM, Shrewsbury Public Library, 609 Main…

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce its second annual Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance (TCCA) graduate student fellowship. The 2020…

The Thoreau Society is pleased to announce the fifth annual Marjorie Harding Memorial Fellowship, generously funded by the Harding family.…

Announcing the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Awards 2020 *Graduate Student Paper Award* Provides up to $750 of travel support to…

CFP: Thoreau in the Anthropocene & Thoreau and the Author Society in the 21st Century.

The Trustees and TigerLion Arts present Nature, a walking play about Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s mutual love…