American Environmental History

12 Chapter 4: Slavery and the South Through Environmental History Article : Mart Stewart, “Towards an Environmental History of the US South” Documents Newspaper Advertisements for African Slaves “from ‘The Rice Coast’ of West Africa, with knowledge of rice growing”Wilderness Songs of Enslaved People: William Francis Allen, “Slave Songs of the United States”Testimony from Former SlavesFrederick Law Olmsted, “The Rice District”

13 Chapter 5: Frontier Expansion and Waste Article : Alan Taylor, “‘Wasty Ways’: Stories of American Settlement” Documents James Fenimore Cooper, “The Wasty Ways of Pioneers”John J. Audubon, “The Wonder of the Passenger Pigeon”Reporting on Passenger PigeonsFrederick J. Haskin, “One Bird Survives Millions”Edwin Bryant, “What I Saw in California”Thomas Cole, “Essay on American Scenery”

14 Chapter 6: Environmental Reform in City and Factory Article : Charles E. Rosenberg, “The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866” Documents The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City Underground Life – Health Officers Clean Out a Dive San Francisco Fire, 1850sLos Angeles Crowd Welcomes Water Arriving in Aqueduct and Dynamited Portion of LA AqueductAlice Hamilton Explains the Perils of the Industrial Environment

15 Chapter 7: Where the Wild Things Went: Emerging Markets and Vanishing Animals Article : Dan Flores, “Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850” Documents Billy Dixon, “Memories of Buffalo Hunting”Curing Hides and BonesDrake Hotel, Thanksgiving Menu, 1886Plundering the Sea: Baleen and the Destruction of WhalesCharles H. Stevenson, “Whalebone: Its Production and Utilization”Advertisement for Thomson’s Glove-Fitting CorsetDestroying Birds to Make HatsCruelties of Fashion: Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds

16 Chapter 8: The Many Uses of Progressive Conservation Article : Benjamin Heber Johnson, “Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest” Documents Gifford Pinchot, “The Meaning of Conservation”Mr. A. A. Anderson, Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer’s WorkWomen Activists Take on Bird Hat Fashion: Celia Thaxter, “Woman’s Heartlessness”Charles Askins Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the SouthBen Senowin Testifies about Being Apprehended for Game Law Violations

17 Chapter 9: National Parks and the Trouble with Wilderness Article : William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” Documents John Muir on Saving Hetch HetchyPeter Oscar Little Chief Requests Permission to Hunt in Glacier ParkThe National Parks Act (1916) and The Wilderness Act (1964)

18 Chapter 10: Conservation and the New Deal: Nature and Nation in Crisis Article : Neil M. Maher, “A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps” Documents Ann Marie Lowe, Farmer’s Daughter, Describes the New DealRussell Moore, “Roosevelt Riddles”Photo Gallery – Arthur Rothstein and Dorothea Lange Capture the Dust BowlEli Gorman and Deneh Bitsilly Remember New Deal Livestock Reduction in Navajo Country

19 Chapter 11: Something in the Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, Air Pollution and Population Article : Robert Gottlieb, “Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots” Documents Stephen M. Spencer, “Fallout: The Silent Killer”Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”Monsanto Corporation, “The Desolate Year”Hugh Moore, “The Population Bomb”The Air Pollution Control Act (1955), and the Clean Air Act, with amendments (2001)United Farm Workers, “Pesticides: The Poisons We Eat”

20 Chapter 12: Environmental Protection and the Environmental Movement Article : J. Brooks Flippen, “Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism” Documents The National Environmental Policy Act (1969)The Endangered Species Act (1973)Daniel Yankelovich, “The New Naturalism”Gaylord Nelson, “Earth Day”David Hendin, “Black Environmentalists See Another Side of Pollution”Paul Ehrlich, “The Population Bomb”

21 Chapter 13: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Article : Eileen Maura McGurty, “From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement” Documents Lois Gibbs on Toxic Waste and Environmental JusticeUnited Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States”The Letter that Shook a MovementFlint Water Advisory Task Force, “Final Report”

22 Chapter 14: Global Consumers and Global Environments Article : Matt Klingle, “Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History” Documents Paul C. Standley Reports on Bananas in HondurasImpact of Coffee Farming on Indigenous PeoplesState of Denial – California’s Appetite for World Resources

23 Chapter 15: Backlash Against the Environmental Movement Article : James Morton Turner, “The Specter of Environmentalism: Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right” Documents Map of US Federal LandsTim Peckinpaugh, “Special Report – The Specter of Environmentalism: The Threat of Environmental Groups”Joe Lane (National Cattlemen’s Association) and Larry Echohawk (Shoshone and Bannock Tribes of Idaho) Testify about the Sagebrush RebellionCarl Pope, “The Politics of Plunder”S. Fred Singer, “The Costs of Environmental Overregulation”Mark Douglas Whitaker, “‘Jobs vs. Environment’ Myth”

24 Chapter 16: Shifting Scale: Climate Change and Global Peril Article : Mike Hulme, “Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism” Documents Ben J. Wattenberg, “The Population Explosion Is Over”United Nations, “World Population Prospects”Economic Growth and Air Emission TrendsThe Relentless Rise of Carbon DioxideThe Acid Rain Experience: Sulfur Dioxide Air Quality, 1980–2018The Triumph of Diplomacy? Atmospheric CFC ConcentrationsCalifornia Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2000–2017616

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1 Chapter 1Map 1.1 Selected features of the prehistoric cultural landscape. Some cit…

1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Drawn from specimen made by Yellow Hair. Length of specimen, f…Figure 1.2 Drawn from specimen made by Buffalo Bird Woman. Length of wood…Figure 1.3 Method of tilling the ground and sowing seed. The Indians cult…Figure 1.4 The offering of a stag to the sun. Every year, a little before…Figure 1.5 Map of Bitterroot Forest Reserve showing burned areas by J. B.…

2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 COVID-19 death rates by age and race.Figure 2.2 Wild horses at play.

3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City.Figure 6.2 “Metropolitan Board of Health Suppressing Nuisances,”.Figure 6.3 “Underground Life and Health Officers Clearing Out a Div…Figure 6.4 Fire in San Francisco, 1850s.Figure 6.5 The crowd celebrating at the Owensmouth Cascades, near Sylmar,…Figure 6.6 A dynamited portion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1927.

4 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Curing hides and bones.Figure 7.2 Bundles of whalebone as received at the factory.Figure 7.3 Cruelties of fashion: fine feathers make fine birds.

5 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Graph of economic growth and air emission trends. Between 197…Figure 16.2 Graph of atmospheric CO 2concentration, 1958–2020.Figure 16.3 Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, 800,000 BP…Figure 16.4 Atmospheric CFC concentrations, 1977–2019.

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