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It's not unusual for the words of influencers to gain popularity. But the influential philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born more than 200 years ago -- and now a term he's credited with introducing, ...

Introduction : land of the grass-ground river -- Part I. The making of Thoreau. Concord sons and daughters -- Higher learning from Concord to Harvard (1826-1837) -- Transcendental apprentice ...

Introduction -- A brief biography of Henry David Thoreau -- Part One, Thoreau as seen by his contemporaries -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "A slight, quaint-looking person" / Daniel Ricketson -- ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One summer evening, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau threw a party—a melon party, to be precise, a ...