Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...

The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young scientist wanting to understand the math and science governing how river ...

Add PBS as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henry David Thoreau is often remembered as a writer who retreated from society to live in a small house at Walden Pond. But he also ...

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 ...