New on the Digital Thoreau blog: Bob Young discusses Thoreau's fourth and final climb of Mount Monadnock, and explores the map of Monadnock that Thoreau drew in his Journal entry of August 9, 1860. Complete with high-resolution images of the Journal and a StoryMapJS tour of the map. https://digitalthoreau.org/blog/ #thoreau #manuscripts #americanlit #dh

The first recorded instance in English of ”Brain rot,” the 2024 Oxford University Press Word of the Year, is in the concluding chapter of Thoreau's #Walden. It first enters Thoreau's drafts of Walden in the F draft (1853-1854), 6th of the 7 in HM 924, the manuscript of Walden at the Huntington Library. It appears in paragraph 7 of “Conclusion.” To see the full manuscript page, search for image 1252 at https://digitalthoreau.org/manuscript-search-tool/ Track all of Thoreau's revisions to the Walden manuscript at https://digitalthoreau.org/fluid-text-toc/ #manuscripts #dh #words #dictionary

Now on our blog: Digital Thoreau intern Emily Aikens on “Tapping into the magic of Thoreau’s manuscripts.” https://digitalthoreau.org/tapping-into-the-magic-of-thoreaus-manuscripts/ #thoreau #manuscripts #dh

The latest addition to Digital Thoreau is William Rossi's 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. Retracing Thoreau's revisions to one of Walden's most famous and important passages—revisiting not just what #Thoreau wrote but when he wrote it—Rossi challenges a long-held assumption about the work's overall revision timeline and redraws the arc of Thoreau's intellectual development. https://digitalthoreau.org/a-new-take-on-thoreaus-deep-cut/

👋 fellow hcommoners! We're so happy to be here! By way of #introduction: Digital Thoreau is a collaborative initiative of SUNY Geneseo, the Thoreau Society, and the Walden Woods Project. We manage multiple projects designed to increase access to #Thoreau's works, help individuals and groups (especially teachers and students) engage with those works and each other, and provide insight into Thoreau's creative process. Director, @WhatTheDickens (Paul Schacht). https://digitalthoreau.org