Browse Items (173 total)

Walter Harding writes an article on one of the judges in the Salem Witch Trials.

Walter Harding made a checklist of letters between Sophia, Thoreau’s younger sister, and Marianna Dunbar, a maternal cousin, with small details about what the letters entail.

Review of Joseph Wood Krutch's book Henry David Thoreau, in which he applauds Krutch’s work for emphasizing Thoreau’s essential happiness and basically capturing Thoreau’s thought.

Written by Walter Harding after Gandhi’s death on how Gandhi used Thoreau’s works to spread his own message in India.

Walter Harding responds to an anti-Thoreau letter, using Thoreau’s reasons for going to Walden, Thoreau’s beliefs about technology and civilization, his beliefs on economy and physical goods, his individualism and philosophy, and the way that…

Walter Harding discusses Thoreau’s “one-man campaign for freedom” and his refusal to pay the poll tax to protest the expansion of slavery, which resulted in his overnight arrest. Includes Thoreau’s belief that it’ll take the strength of men, as…

Walter Harding's defense for pacifist Pvt. Henry P. Weber who doesn’t believe in war.

Walter Harding writes to a paper to correct an editorial that Thoreau, not Gandhi, should be given credit for creating the idea of "Non-cooperation".

Walter Harding finds a book review by Thoreau’s old professor, C. Felton. In this 14-page review, Felton mentions an old student, Thoreau, a scholar of talent, but claims that Thoreau was a man of such “pertinacious oddity... that his writings will…

Walter Harding reviews cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post, where he commends that the comics focus on homey little affairs that bring a laugh with little intellectual effort.