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High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and is first committed by, the power that makes and forever re-creates man. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 430, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

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Henry David Thoreau

Titles by Henry David Thoreau:

• Civil Disobedience
• Transcendentalism
• Walden

Salem on History:

• Henry David Thoreau

eNotes:

• Henry David Thoreau (The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail)
• Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts (Transcendentalism)
• Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

Encyclopedia:

• Thoreau, Henry David (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Thoreau, Henry David (The Oxford Companion to American Military History)

Primary Sources:

• John Brown and Henry David Thoreau (Terrorism Reference)

Salem on Literature:

• The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Henry David Thoreau (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Henry David Thoreau (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Henry David Thoreau (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
• Henry David Thoreau (Ethics (Ready Reference series))

Literary Criticism:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Walden; or, Life in the Woods Henry David Thoreau (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)
• Thoreau, Henry David (Poetry Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Henry David Thoreau is born
• Henry David Thoreau establishes residence at a cabin on Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts
• Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden; or, Life in the Woods
• Henry David Thoreau dies