Research
The Library at Forest Farm
The library at Forest Farm contains Helen and Scott’s personal library as it existed at the time of Helen’s death.
Researchers are welcome to use the collection onsite. Please call in advance to make an appointment.
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“…The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods holds a rich collection of documents spanning eight decades in the lives of Scott and Helen Nearing, the New England pioneers of homesteading, organic gardening, and sustainable living. The gift of these papers to the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods from The Trust for Public Land as an agent for The Good Life Center helps make the Institute a focal point for the study of the twentieth-century sustainable living movement and the remarkable individuals who influenced it…”
–from the Nearing Collection at Thoreau Institute website.
Thoreau Institute/Walden Woods Library
44 Baker Farm Rd.
Lincoln, Massachussetts 01773-3004
Phone: (781)-259-4700
Fax: (781)-259-4710
- The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers at the Thoreau Institute (main page)
- Bibliography of the writings of Scott Nearing (courtesy of the Thoreau Institute)
- Bibliography of the writings of Helen Nearing (courtesy of the Thoreau Institute
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More Nearing papers are stored at:
Found Digital Objects (free access):
From the Internet Archive:
- The Nearing case : the limitation of academic freedom at the University of Pennsylvania by act of the Board of trustees, June 14, 1915; a brief of facts and opinions by Lightner Witmer (1915)
- Debate between E. R. A. Seligman, affirmative, and Scott Nearing negative (c1921)
- The trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society. Presiding Judge–Julius M. Mayer; attorneys:–for the government, Earl B. Barnes; for the defense, Seymour Stedman … S. John Block … Walter Nelles … I. M. Sackin … United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, New York City, February 5th to 19th, 1919 (c1919]) by Scott Nearing, defendant
- The Debs Decision, by Scott Nearing (Rand School of Social Science, 1919). Pamphlet.
- Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History, by Scott Nearing (text only)
- The New Education: A Review Of Progressive Educational Movements Of The Day (1915) by Scott Nearing
- The Next step; a Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing (Nellie Seeds Nearing, 1922).
- Woman and social progress: a discussion of the biologic, domestic, industrial and social possibilities of American women, by Scott Nearing and Nellie S. Nearing (Macmillan, 1914)
- The solution of the child labor problem, by Scott Nearing (Moffat Yard and Co., 1911)
- Reducing the Cost of Living, by Scott Nearing (Jacobs, 1914)
- The American Empire, by Scott Nearing (Rand, 1921)
- Social Adjustment, by Scott Nearing (MacMillan, 1916)
- Labor and the League of Nations, by Scott Nearing (Rand, 1919)
- Income; an examination of the returns for services rendered and from property owned in the United States, by Scott Nearing (MacMillan, 1915)
- Poverty and riches : a study of the industrial regime, by Scott Nearing (Winston, 1916)
- Financing the wage-earner’s family; a survey of the facts bearing on income and expenditures in the families of American wage-earners, by Scott Nearing (Huebsch, 1913)
- The super race : an American problem, by Scott Nearing (Huebsch, 1919)
- Community Civics, by Jessie “The Corn Lady” Field and Scott Nearing (MacMillan, 1917)
- Bars and Shadows: Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin, with an introduction by Scott Nearing (NYC: Leonard Press, 1922)
- Wages in the United States, 1908-1910; a study of state and federal wage statistics, by Scott Nearing (MacMillan, 1911)
- The Americanization of labor. The employers’ offensive against the trade unions, by Robert Dunn with an introduction by Scott Nearing (International Publishers, 1927)
- Excerpts from SN’s The Great Madness on www.bigeye.com
Know of more open-access Nearing-iana online? Let us know and we’ll post the links…