Henry David Thoreau. Maybe a hectic lifestyle has prevented you from marking it on your calendar; but July 12 is the bicentennial of the birth of essayist, poet, abolitionist, philosopher ...

In her spectacular 2017 biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Dassow Walls marshaled a regiment of facts to combat the idea that Thoreau lived a lonely existence. Thoreau spent only two of ...