I just finished my own deep dive into Thoreau as part of a 19th-century American literature course. While this hardly makes ...

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A new three-part, three-hour film on Henry David Thoreau will air on PBS Michiana WNIT March 30-31. Executive producers are Ken Burns and Don Henley.

Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

"Free For All: The Public Library" looks at the history and contemporary fuctions of the public library system in American ...

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