{"id":5905,"date":"2012-05-21T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=5905"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:17","slug":"resource-spotlight-henry-david-thoreau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2012\/05\/21\/resource-spotlight-henry-david-thoreau\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource Spotlight: Henry David Thoreau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5908\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/files\/2012\/05\/hdt1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/05\/hdt1-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/05\/hdt1-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2012\/05\/hdt1.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daguerreotype, 1856, from ARTstor<\/figcaption><\/figure> This month marks the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau\u2019s death.  As philosopher, theologian, poet, environmentalist, and teacher, Thoreau has much to teach us about living abundantly while seeking simplicity.  <a href=\"http:\/\/flagship.luc.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/www.anb.org\/articles\/16\/16-01635.html\">American National Biography Online<\/a>* provides an excellent overview of Thoreau\u2019s life.  Our collections hold <a href=\"http:\/\/luclibrary.worldcat.org\/profiles\/jcurrie\/lists\/2987343\">recent editions of Thoreau\u2019s writings<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/luclibrary.worldcat.org\/profiles\/jcurrie\/lists\/2987325\">scholarship about him<\/a>.  For more reading ideas, contact a librarian by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/ask\">http:\/\/libraries.luc.edu\/ask<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>* This resource is accessible on-campus or off-campus to students, faculty, and staff after log-in with a Loyola Universal ID and password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month marks the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau\u2019s death. As philosopher, theologian, poet, environmentalist, and teacher, Thoreau has much to teach us about living abundantly while seeking simplicity. American National Biography Online* provides an excellent overview of Thoreau\u2019s life. Our collections hold recent editions of Thoreau\u2019s writings as well as scholarship about him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}