Books and Henry David Thoreau - August 9
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Sunday, August 9, 2026
Today is Melon Day, National Book Lovers Day, International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, National Rice Pudding Day, National Hand-Holding Day, National Polka Day, and Veep Day.
- Health and Wellness Month Resource of the Day: Exploring Careers in Health Science
- Sandwich Month Sandwich of the Day: Croque Monsieur
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poems of the Day
Art of the Day
Today's Theme: Books and Henry David Thoreau
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1757 – Birthday of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
ON THIS DATE
- 1854 - Henry David Thoreau's Walden is published
- 1944 - Smokey Bear makes his debut on posters.
- 1945 - 35,000 people are killed when the atomic bomb Fat Man is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
- 2014 - 18-year-old African American Michael Brown is shot and killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, leading to protests across the U.S.
- 1767 - Philanthropist and socialite Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
- 1776 - Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro
- 1899 - Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers
- Hamilton - The Schuyler Sisters - LISTEN
- Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write the Book - LISTEN
- The Beatles - Paperback Writer - LISTEN
- The Beatles - I Want to Hold Your Hand - LISTEN
- Paul Engle - Henry David Thoreau
- Henry David Thoreau - To a Marsh Hawk in Spring
- Emily Dickinson - There is No Frigate Like a Book
- Amy Lowell - The Bookshop
Haki R. Madhubuti - So Many Books, So Little Time
- Édouard Manet - Woman Reading (1879/80)
- Grades PreK-1 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Between the Lions - Read a Book Today (1:02) - VIEW
- Grades PreK-3 - PBS Parents - Booklists - READ
- Grades PreK-6 - Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature - SEARCH
- Grades K-4 - Reading Rainbow - VIEW
- Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Accordion-Fold Books (4:04) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - The Great American Read Collection - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - MN Original - Minnesota Center for Book Arts (6:42) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 9-12- NHPBS LearningMedia - It's Lit - Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover (7:43) - VIEW
- Grades 9-adult - NHPBS Video - PBS Books Series - VIEW
THEME: HENRY DAVID THOREAU
- Grades 3-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Henry David Thoreau: Author, Philosopher, and Abolitionist (Available in Spanish) (3:23) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Windows to the Wild - Thoreau at Walden Pond (26:46) - VIEW
- Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Henry David Thoreau - READ
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Where the Road Ends: Using Henry David Thoreau's Journals to Study Climate Change (5:51) - VIEW, READ, DO
- Grades 9-12 - The Thoreau Society - READ
- Grades 9-12 - ReadWriteThink - Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture Unit - DO
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