Digital Thoreau

Tools to illuminate Thoreau’s creative process and facilitate thoughtful conversation about his words and ideas. Also @digitalthoreau.hcommons.social

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

New on the Digital Thoreau blog: Bob Young discusses #Thoreau's 4th & final climb of Mt. Monadnock, & explores the map of Monadnock that T drew in his Journal entry of 8/9/1860. Complete with high-res images of the Journal & a StoryMapJS tour of the map https://t.co/R308iqY6Ik

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

"Brain rot," @OxUniPress 2024 Word of the Year, first enters Thoreau's drafts of Walden in the F draft (1853-54), 6th of the 7 in HM 924, the MS of Walden at the Huntington. It appears in paragraph 7 of the final chapter. Search for image 1252 at https://t.co/MTLMlp2rmn

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

We've published William Rossi's groundbreaking recent essay "Making 'Walden' and Its Sandbank" in a new, electronic version that puts pages from the #Walden MS side-by-side with fresh transcriptions thanks to @universalviewer https://t.co/lxANEoFkBa

[Paul Schacht @WhatTheDickens]

Thrilled to be at @alpenadriauni today to share some thoughts about @DigitalThoreau and “Remediating Revision” in the conference on “Edition als Vermittlung” organized by the Robert Musil Institute https://t.co/BDgTHym3j3 #digitalhumanities #thoreau

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

“The type of independence that Thoreau pursued—one which was predicated on freedom from work and the boss—has deep resonances with today’s demands for greater leisure and a shorter working week.” https://t.co/dax7aWUpQU

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

I argue that mainstream environmental groups have made a terrible mistake in imagining that incremental change is quicker and easier to achieve than system change.
System change is - and has always been - our only realistic option. https://t.co/TQBGTn7AHe

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

In books you may burrow,
And learn to say Thoreau,
Rhyming him thus
With Edward R. Murrow.
But just so you know,
Wherever you go,
Most people will still
Call him Henry Thoreau.
Whatever you call him,
However you vote,
All that matters is whether
You read what he wrote.

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

@naudgnit Let him step to the music which he hears?

[Tinghui Duan 段庭辉 🌎 @naudgnit]

@WhatTheDickens How "Thoreau the artist strewed about his 'fresh designs' as he moved from version to version, or revised within a single version", as the authors described, and how we trace the authorial paths by encoding the manuscript with TEI, is a kind of transcendental experience.

[Tinghui Duan 段庭辉 🌎 @naudgnit]

Beyond the great pedagogical experience with Editing Thoreau with #TEI, reported by @WhatTheDickens et al., I want to cite the following sentence from the "Walden": "I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me".

[Digital Thoreau @DigitalThoreau]

New essay out today in the journal Scholarly Editing, written by our current editorial team, describes three ways of using the "Walden" manuscript @TheHuntington to teach principles of scholarly editing and TEI basics. @TEIconsortium https://t.co/tYtZihx6v4

[Paul Schacht @WhatTheDickens]

@edward_gillin @pfyfe @PhDhurtBrain Great to make your acquaintance @edward_gillin - the amazing Ed Gillin featured in the @chronicle article by @JenHoward will not be found on Twitter (or anywhere near it, I suspect), but is here: https://t.co/Y077JS9PU3

[Ralph Waldo Emerson Society @EmersonSociety]

Apply for our $500 Pedagogy/Community Project Award! The award supports projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Read more here: https://t.co/5bwn8m5EMF #phdchat @AmLit_ALA @DigitalThoreau

[Juan Cole @jricole]

Why MLK would have Launched Nonviolent Disobedience to pass the Freedom to Vote Act - https://t.co/5hwUc2A5ac

[LOC Crowdsourcing @Crowd_LOC]

In 2021, By the People volunteers set a new record: over 7,000 pages saw activity in a 24-hour period on Feb 14. This was due to the efforts of @DouglassDayorg organizers who mobilized a volunteer base to transcribe Mary Church Terrell's papers. https://t.co/PTtpu3nYlm

[Early American Sources @AmericanSources]

If you're looking for some great digital sources for early America, check out the @nypl's Early American Manuscript Project. Over 50,000 images of archival material, and its open access!

#VastEarlyAmerica
#twitterstorians

https://t.co/Z3tVmfD01i

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

A century ago, here's what we knew about Climate Change, thanks to @NLNZ:

https://t.co/ubWNvi8B48

[rowan @rowanspencer__]

wales & denmark combining for a henry david thoreau reference is prime @rogbennett content

[Holding History @HoldingHistory]

HH Co-Director Joshua Calhoun spent a day paging through #Thoreau's Walden Pond journals and wrote about it for the @MorganLibrary! For more Thoreau resources, check out @ThoreauSociety & @DigitalThoreau

[Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia]

@paigecmorgan @pencechp @scott_bot @Ted_Underwood @medievalMB @TEIconsortium And @WhatTheDickens is working with me and a bunch of wonderful Thoreauvians on a more 19c-oriented OER—with more on TEI ODD eventually. just intro stuff up now: https://t.co/M36b2BdNFW