Celebrating Henry David Thoreau's Classic, Walden

On November 6, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries will host Dr. Eric Slauter, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at the University of Chicago, who will present his talk entitled “Walden’s Carbon Footprint: People, Plants, Animals, and Machines in the Making of an American Classic.” This event celebrates the Libraries’ acquisition of the first edition of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden.