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 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…
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.
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.