Thoreau, Emerson, Walden Pond and More: Answering Big Questions

Presented on: Thursday, July 8th at 1:00 PM PDT


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Stressed out? Looking for inner calm? It turns out that mindfulness has been with us for a long time. Join Stanford historian Caroline Winterer for an exploration of a remarkable group of 19th-century Americans, the Transcendentalists, and how they coped with a chaotic world transformed almost overnight by massive technological and social changes. We’ll look at Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, John Muir, and other writers and artists living everywhere from the shores of Walden Pond to the snowy peaks of Yosemite.
This event is presented for free in partnership with One Day University. One Day U offers daily livestreamed talks with the nation’s top professors, plus hundreds of past talks, for just $8.95/month. Our partnership will bring you one free One Day U talk each month. You can try all of their programming for one month free here: www.onedayu.com/PBC/


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