Author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, editor of Journal 8: 1854 in The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism and More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s “Walden” for the Twenty-first Century, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis is professor of English and American Studies and program coordinator for Letters, Arts, and Sciences at Penn State Altoona.