Established in 1941, the Thoreau Society has long contributed to the dissemination of knowledge about Thoreau by collecting books, manuscripts, and artifacts relating to Thoreau and his contemporaries, by encouraging the use of its collections, and by publishing articles in two Society periodicals. Through an annual gathering in Concord, and through sessions devoted to Thoreau at the Modern Language Association's annual convention and the American Literature Association's annual conference, the Thoreau Society provides opportunities for all those interested in Thoreau--dedicated readers and followers, as well as the leading scholars in the field--to gather and share their knowledge of Thoreau and his times.

The Walden Woods Project was founded in 1990 by recording-artist Don Henley to raise public awareness about the threat posed by development in Walden Woods--a 2,680-acre ecosystem surrounding Thoreau’s Walden Pond. Since then, the organization has protected nearly 140 acres in and around Walden Woods. The Walden Woods Project operates the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, a center for research and education focused on Thoreau, his literary achievements and philosophy, and his influence on environmental and social movements. Through its technology center, education programs and comprehensive Thoreau research collection, the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods provides opportunities for lifelong learning about Thoreau’s life and work.

"Digital Thoreau is a resource and a community dedicated to promoting the deliberate reading of Thoreau's works in new ways, ways that take advantage of technology to illuminate Thoreau's creative process and facilitate thoughtful conversation about his words and ideas." The site includes Walden: A Fluid Text Edition, which allows readers to compare the seven versions of Walden, side by side, with the Princeton Edition text.

"Mapping Thoreau Country (MTC) uses historical maps to organize and interpret images, documents, and information related to Henry David Thoreau's travels throughout the United States." Includes images of Thoreau's hand-drawn maps as well as contemporaneous engravings.

Using both scientific and common names, Ray Angelo has compiled an exhaustive index to botanical references in Thoreau's Journal. The online version is keyed to the 1906 edition of the Journal and contains revisions to the printed edition, now out of print. A great resource.

Richard Lenat's introduction to several of Thoreau's books and essays, with electronic versions of the texts and links to a number of interesting and useful Thoreau sites.

"Today in History" from "American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library" at the Library of Congress profiles Thoreau on his birthday. This well-designed site includes the text of the 1863 Ticknor & Fields edition of Thoreau's Excursions, one of many Thoreau items in the Library's Rare Book Collection.

Text from the radio program "Engines of Our Ingenuity," created by John H. Lienhard, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and History at the University of Houston. This program on Thoreau's pencil making provides a good introduction to this little-known side of Thoreau. Lienhard cites Henry Petroski's article, "H. D. Thoreau, Engineer," which appeared in American Heritage of Invention & Technology 5, no. 2 (Fall 1989): 8-16. If you can't find the article, Petroski's book, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, is widely available. For a lighthearted and fun-filled article about Thoreau and pencil making in Massachusetts see Deborah Bier's "Concord's Sharp Pencil-Makers Write Themselves into History" at the online Concord Magazine.

This Ecotopia/USA Web site places Thoreau in the company of Rachel Carson, Alan Chadwick, John Burroughs, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold, charter inductees into the Ecology Hall of Fame for environmental heroes.

A mailing list, managed by Kirk McElhearn, dedicated to Thoreau. A good place to contact other Thoreau enthusiasts.

Includes a trail map and some information about the history of the pond, as well as the current resource management plan for the reservation.

A record of past environments--assembled from an analysis of frozen core samples (defined) of Walden's sediments--was taken by Marjorie Winkler, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Climatic Research. Winkler studies lake and pond sediments, and from them she extracts detailed physical records of changes in environments and climates that extend back hundreds and sometimes thousands of years.

"The most comprehensive archive of primary and secondary source material related to Concord history, life, landscape, literature, people, and influence from 1635 to the present day." Finding aids for Thoreau material include the Henry David Thoreau Papers, 1836-[1862], Thoreau Books: Books from the Libraries of Henry David Thoreau and of Other Members of the Thoreau Family, 1776-1869, the Thoreau Family Collection, 1828-1858, and Thoreau Family Correspondence, 1836-1878. Henry David Thoreau: Land and Property Surveys presents high resolution images of all of Thoreau's surveys in Special Collections.

The home page for the historical museum of Thoreau's hometown. The Museum's Thoreau Collection, the world's largest collection of objects related to Concord's native son, numbers over 200 artifacts including the desk on which Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" and Walden; personal possessions such as his walking stick, flute and spyglass; family furnishings from the Thoreau home; the 1861 ambrotype by E.S. Dunshee; and the lock and key from the 1846 Concord jail. The Museum offers object-based, Thoreau-related programming year-round for children, families, scholars, teachers and students.

The home page for Thoreau's hometown. All the latest news and information.

This "portrait of a village," part of the PBS Web site, "Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing," includes a good chronology of Concord history.

A virtual visit to the home of the Alcott family, now a historic house museum owned and operated by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association in Concord, MA.

Claims to be the "Earth's biggest environmental search engine." It probably is.

CNN for the eco-conscious.

The comprehensive and well-organized site of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

The home page for EnviroLink: The Online Environmental Network. This page contains hundreds of links to environmental organizations, publications, and resources.

Sponsored by the Library of Congress, this site documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage. It's a searchable outline of the history of the conservation movement in the United States. Thoreau's name shows up frequently.

Home page of the NOAA, whose mission is "to describe and predict changes in the Earth's environment, and conserve and manage wisely the Nation's coastal and marine resources to ensure sustainable economic opportunities."

The SEJ's purpose is to enable journalists to better inform the public about critical issues concerning the environment. SEJ's membership of more than 1,100 includes journalists working for newspapers, television and radio stations, broadcast and cable networks, magazines, newsletters, wire services and photo agencies, as well as educators and students.

The Wallace Stegner Center "is committed to identifying fair and workable solutions to local, national, and international problems."

NCEAS was established in 1995 by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the State of California and the University of California, Santa Barbara. NCEAS's focus is collaborative, basic, and applied research on the structure and dynamics of ecological systems. NCEAS also organizes and synthesizes ecological information to facilitate its use by researchers, policymakers, and resource managers addressing important environmental issues.

Welcome to one of the world's preeminent scientific and educational institutions. Home to many of the nation's leading scientists, the American Museum of Natural History continues to build on a distinguished tradition of advanced research, seeking to identify and describe the earth and its myriad life forms, and to share the results of this work with a broad public.

An online edition of the complete John James Audubon's Birds of America (1840-1844). Includes full text and color plates.

The Harvard University Herbaria house one of the largest comprehensive collections of dried plant and fungal specimens in the world. The Herbaria include the New England Botanical Club Herbarium and the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum.

The Internet Directory for Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet.

The aim of this site is to "provide a compilation of electronic information which pertains to different aspects of Natural History." Current modules contain links to Ornithology (birds) and Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).

Information about specimens and objects in the National Museum of Natural History, as well as useful reference databases and bibliographies.

ASLE was founded to promote the exchange of ideas and information pertaining to literature that considers the relationship between human beings and the natural world.

The nature essay, "a literary genre which flourished in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," is the subject of this bibliography compiled by the Library of Congress of holdings from their General Collection and Rare Book Division.

This chapter on early nineteenth-century American Transcendentalism from Paul P. Reuben's research guide has useful information and bibliographies on New England Transcendentalists.

A brief overview of the American Renaissance with a list of relevant writings, from the PBS Web site Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing.

An excellent overview of Transcendentalism written by Leslie Perrin Wilson, Curator of Special Collections at the Concord Free Public Library, for the November 1998 issue of an online magazine called The Concord Magazine. This article provides a complete bibliography of sources. If you have trouble reading the pages as printed by your Internet browser, read Leslie's tips for printing the page.

Biographical information about Amos Bronson Alcott from the Web site for Orchard House, a historic house museum in Concord, MA, owned and operated by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association. Orchard House was the home of the Alcott family from 1858-1877.

Biographical information about Amos Bronson Alcott and his family, from the PBS Web site "Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing."

Good introductory biography of Thoreau's mentor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is dedicated to fostering scholarship on and appreciation of Emerson's life and writings. This rich site includes links to bibliographies, electronic versions of Emerson's writings, images of Emerson and his home, and other useful sites.

A biographical sketch and brief description of Fuller's writings, part of the PBS Web site, "Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing."

An informative site from the English Department of Eastern Kentucky University about Margaret Fuller--feminist, poet, literary critic, journalist, human rights activist, and co-founder of the Transcendental journal, The Dial.

Founded in 1992, the Society is a non-profit educational organization founded to stimulate interest in the life and writings of Fuller.

An overview of Fuller's career as journalist and foreign correspondent, by human rights reporter and foreign correspondent "watchdog" Frederic A. Moritz.

Brook Farm was founded in 1841 by George and Sophia Ripley. George Ripley (1802-1880) was a former Unitarian minister and a leading member of the Transcendental Club, and he helped found the Transcendentalist publication, The Dial, in 1840.

American poet, essayist, and participant in the Transcendental Club. This Web site includes biography and links to several author works.

This site is a frequently updated index of other sites devoted to American writers, nineteenth-century and otherwise.

The official site of the Orchard House, home to the Alcott family from 1858 to 1877. The historic house museum is located in Concord, MA.

Created and maintained by Kimberly A. Wells, this site contains a short Alcott biography, a bibliography, and links to other Alcott sites and criticism, and to University of Virginia's e-text of Little Women. Jump back to her main "Domestic Goddesses" page for similar pages and links for Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, and other women writers.

This site profiles the activities and projects of the John Burroughs Association and the life and work of naturalist and writer John Burroughs (1837-1921), whose own cabin near the Hudson River, "Slabsides," became a meeting place for writers, inventors, and environmentalists.

Created and maintained by Kimberly A. Wells, this site contains a short Chopin biography and links to other Chopin sites and criticism, and to Project Gutenberg's e-text of The Awakening and selected short stories. Jump back to her main "Domestic Goddesses" page for similar pages and links for Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, and several other women writers.

Links to biographical and bibliographical resources, and to electronic texts of this naturalist author.

The Society creates a forum for scholarship on Dickinson and her relation to the tradition of American poetry and women's literature.

"A website devoted to the study of Emily Dickinson, her writing practices, writings directly influencing her work, and critical and creative writings generated by her work."

A research and reference guide to Hawthorne, created and maintained by Paul P. Reuben as part of his larger site, Perspectives in American Literature.

Site contains biographical information and a collection of online poetry.

Lots of useful information and many links; frequently updated.

The EAPSB was officially established in 1923 but traces its roots back to 1865 through four earlier organizations. The Society is a clearing house for information about Poe's life and work.

This site by Heyward Ehrlich at Rutgers University describes itself as "a critical guide to electronic resources for Poe research on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM, including electronic texts, commentaries, backgrounds, literary indexes, and search engines." The most comprehensive of several Poe Web sites.

This site, part of the "Celebration of Women Writers," has biographical information and other links.

The Archive, located at Berkeley, contains originals or photocopies of almost every surviving document in Twain's hand, as well as a vast collection of collateral material. The Archive is home to the Mark Twain Papers and Project, which is producing a comprehensive scholarly edition of Twain's private papers and published works.

Information about Whitman and the Whitman manuscript notebooks collected in the Library of Congress.

Electronic version of Whitman's masterpiece, produced by Project Bartleby.

A hypermedia environment for studying the works of Walt Whitman, where you will find a database of digitized images of Whitman's works in original, documentary form.

The ADE page contains links to member projects, including editions of Frederick Douglass, Albert Einstein, Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, George Washington, and many others.

Building on the University of Michigan's groundbreaking efforts since 1990 in providing online access to full text, the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the acquisition, creation, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the University's capabilities in the area of online text.

The Model Editions Partnership is a consortium of seven historical editions which has joined forces with leaders of the Text Encoding Initiative and the Center for Electronic Text in the Humanities. The participants have developed editorial guidelines for publishing historical documents in electronic form.

STS provides a forum for the discussion of the interdisciplinary implications of current research into various aspects of contemporary textual work: the discovery, enumeration, description, bibliographical analysis, editing, and annotation of texts.