Ecology
as history Navigating the site:
Environmental history in the U. S. links on this Web Site
Chronological listing of related pages in environmental & ecological history
Readings & commentaries in American Environmental History
See the
printed Syllabus to determine what to read before class and assigned work:
Maps of the place you call home. – What do you want to learn?
Siry, Marshes of the Ocean Shore (terms defined)
William Byrd, A History of the Dividing Line
Siry on the importance of:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (1836)
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1849)
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Journey ... Seaboard Slave States
FL0 go here for excerpts see there.
W. E. B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk & The Black Belt
Lewis Mumford , On land and landscape
What is environmental history?
Impact and scale in American environmental history
Merchant | Worster | Cronin | Reisner | Jackson | Siry | Leopold | |Diamond | Williams | Austin | Mumford | Marx
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Times
Adam Rome, Bulldozer in the Countryside
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
The American frontier's landscape heritage, J. V. Siry.
Time, cycles, historic changes
Images of the American landscape
Aboriginal America, the role of Amerindians in Environmental History
Settlements of the Northeast & Southwest were examples of ecological revolutions.
American revolutionary and early Nationalist attitudes about nature, landscape and settlement.
Donald Worster, as a model of an environmental historian
Exam study guide – Use for take home questions.
"The land was ours, before we were the lands." Landscape art and the promise of America.
Henry David Thoreau, Ecologist and abolitionist
Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert, on reclamation: One, Two, Three.
The Grand Canyon Controversy, related pages
Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain: a natural history of the Owen's Valley.
Calendar of meetings
All assignments are created to lead you to better answer the final exam essay question.
Oral Presentations of 5-6 minutes, based on a written answer to:
What
is worth protecting and preserving
for future Americans?
Course chronological periods.
Merchant's Chronology 1640-1992.
Biological Trends in the United States, an annotated guide.
Mount Greylock, Herman Melville's inspiration for his novel Moby Dick, the most profound and philosophically all-encompassing classics of American literature.
Merchant | Worster | Cronin | Reisner | Jackson | Siry | Leopold | |Diamond | Williams | Austin | Mumford | Marx
