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| What is Environmental History? | |
| Essays | |
| Doing Environmental History | |
| Predicting Environmental History | |
| Using Environmental History | |
| Interpreting Environmental History | |
| Global Environmental History | |
| Native American Ecology and European Contact | |
| Documents | |
| A Spanish Explorer Views the Pueblos, 1580 | |
| Spanish Explorers Observe Pueblo Irrigation, 1582 | |
| A Spaniard Testifies on the Effects of Pueblo Colonization, 1601 | |
| Nicholas Denys on the Micmac Fur Trade, 1672 | |
| A Jesuit Missionary Recalls Micmac Hunting Rituals, 1691 | |
| Lewis and Clark Describe the Great Plains, 1804 | |
| Plains IndiansÆ Pictographs, Recorded by George Catlin in 1844 | |
| Essays | |
| Pueblos and Spanish in the Southwest | |
| Micmacs and French in the Northeast | |
| Indians and Bison on the Great Plains | |
| The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Documents | |
| William Bradford Faces a ôHideous and Desolate Wilderness,ö 1620-35 | |
| John Winthrop Quotes Genesis on Subduing the Earth, 1629 | |
| Thomas Morton Praises the New English Canaan, 1632 | |
| William Wood on Indian WomenÆs Housing and Horticulture, 1634 | |
| Anne Bradstreet Eulogizes Nature, 1650 | |
| Edward Johnson on Transforming the Wilderness, 1654 | |
| A Timber MerchantÆs Estate, 1682 | |
| Cotton Mather on the Scale of Nature, 1721 | |
| A Governor Enforces the KingÆs Forest Policy, 1730 | |
| Essays | |
| A BeaverÆs Perspective | |
| A ColonistÆs Perspective | |
| Puritan Perspectives | |
| Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South | |
| Documents | |
| John White Depicts Indian Planting and Fishing in North Carolina, 1590 | |
| Virginia Settlers Discover Tobacco, 1614-1617 | |
| A Chesapeake Planter Describes His Holdings, 1686 | |
| Robert Beverley on Indians and Nature in Virginia, 1705 | |
| A Governor Explains South Carolina Rice Production, 1761 | |
| A Traveler Describes Tobacco Cultivation, 1775 | |
| Thomas Jefferson on the ôNatureö of Blacks and Worn-Out Soils, 1787 | |
| Olaudah Equiano Describes His Enslavement, 1791 | |
| Essays | |
| Tobacco and Soils in the Chesapeake | |
| Rice and Slaves in the Low Country | |
| Black Indians in the South | |
| Farms and Cities in the Early Republic | |
| Documents | |
| J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur Asks, ôWhat Is an American?ö 1782 | |
| Thomas Jefferson on the Agrarian Ideal, 1787 | |
| Benjamin Rush Praises the Market Farmers of Pennsylvania, 1789 | |
| Anna HowellÆs Farm Diary, 1820 | |
| Samuel SlaterÆs Proposal on Cotton Spinning, 1789 | |
| Benjamin Henry Latrobe on Polluted Water in Philadelphia, 1798 | |
| John James Audubon Depicts the Squatters of the Mississippi, 1808-1834 | |
| Calvin Colton on Self-made Men, 1844 | |
| Essays | |
| Farms and Subsistence | |
| Pollution and Cities | |
| Water and Industry | |
| Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Documents | |
| Phillis Wheatley Eulogizes Nature, 1773 | |
| John James Audubon on Shooting Birds, 1808-1834 | |
| James Fenimore Cooper Laments the ôWasty Waysö of Pioneers, 1823 | |
| Hudson River Painters Depict Nature, 1836-1849 | |
| George Catlin on Indians, Nature, and Civilization, 1844 | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson Expounds on Nature and Wealth, 1844 | |
| Henry David Thoreau on Nature Versus Civilization, 1854 | |
| Rebecca Harding Davis on Pollution and Human Life in the Iron Mills, 1861 | |
| Essays | |
| Civilization Over Nature | |
| Nature Over Civilization | |
| Slave Women and Nature | |
| The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War | |
| Documents | |
| Frances Anne Kemble on Slavery and Nature in Georgia, 1838 | |
| A Georgia Planter Tells Why Cotton Pays, 1847 | |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Describes Cotton Production and Environmental Deterioration, 1861 | |
| SharecroppersÆ Contracts, 1876-1886 | |
| Freed Slave Louis Hughes on Cotton and Cotton Worms, 1897 | |
| A Louisiana Convention Declares War on the Boll Weevil, 1903 | |
| Ex-Slaves Describe Their Means of Subsistence, 1937 | |
| A Freed Slave Explains ôWhy That Boll Weevil Done Come,ö 1945 | |
| Essays | |
| Soils Used | |
| Soils Abused | |
| Soils Extracted | |
| Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Documents | |
| A Russian Sailor on the Sea Otter Trade, 1813 | |
| A Manager Describes the Russian American Company, 1835 | |
| Thomas Hart Benton on Manifest Destiny, 1846 | |
| An Federal Agent Assesses MiningÆs Impact on the Indians, 1853 | |
| James Marshall Tells How He Discovered Gold, 1857 | |
| Joaquin Miller Describes Environmental Deterioration in the Gold Country, 1890 | |
| A Fish Commissioner on the Need for Salmon Protection, 1885 | |
| A Capitalist Advocates Salmon Hatcheries, 1893 | |
| An Indian Woman Deplores the Soreness of the Earth, Recorded in 1925 | |
| Essays | |
| Otters versus Russians in Alaska | |
| Miners versus Farmers in California | |
| Salmon versus Fishers in the Northwest | |
| Great Plains Grasslands Exploited | |
| Documents | |
| Pioneer Women Portray the Plains Environment, 1860-86 | |
| The Homestead Act, 1862 | |
| Joseph G. McCoy on the Chisholm Trail and Abilene Stockyards, 1874 | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner on the Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 | |
| John Steinbeck Depicts the Dust Bowl, 1939 | |
| Plenty-Coups Mourns the Vanishing Buffalo, Recorded in 1950 | |
| An Editor Bids Good Riddance to Buffalo, 1979 | |
| Essays | |
| Great Plains Ecology | |
| Cowboy Ecology | |
| Telling Stories About Ecology | |
| Resource Conservation in an Industrializing Society | |
| Documents | |
| George Perkins Marsh on Man and Nature, 1864 | |
| John Wesley Powell Advocates Reclamation, 1878 | |
| The Reclamation Act, 1902 | |
| George L. Knapp Opposes Conservation, 1910 | |
| Mrs. Marion Crocker on the Conservation Imperative, 1912 | |
| Robert Marshall on the PeopleÆs Forests, 1933 | |
| Hugh Bennett Presses for Soil Conservation, 1947 | |
| Gifford Pinchot Recalls the Origins of the Cosnervation Movement, 1947 | |
| Essays | |
| From Conservation to Environment | |
| Conservation as Reclamation | |
| Women and Conservation | |
| Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century | |
| Documents | |
| Florence Merriam Bailey on the Early Audubon Women, 1900 | |
| Mary Austin on the Wonders of the Desert, 1903 | |
| John Muir Advocates Wilderness Preservation, 1912 | |
| The National Parks Act, 1916 | |
| Chief Luther Standing Bear Gives an Indian View of Wilderness, Recorded in 1933 | |
| The Wilderness Act, 1964 | |
| Edward Abbey on Industrial Tourism in the National Parks, 1968 | |
| Essays | |
| The Value of Wilderness | |
| Indians and Wilderness | |
| The Trouble with Wilderness | |
| Urbanizing the Environment in the Twentieth Century | |
| Documents | |
| A Woman Advocates Civic Cleanliness, 1901 | |
| Upton Sinclair on the Chicago Stockyards, 1905 | |
| Jane Addams on Garbage in Chicago, 1910 | |
| Cartoonists depict Gender and Environmental Politics, 1915-1919 | |
| A Black Migrant Experiences the Urban Environment, 1927 | |
| Alice Hamilton on Industrial Poisons, 1943 | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower Promotes the Interstate Highway System, 1955 | |
| Essays | |
| Industrial Pollution and Reform | |
| Gender and Environmental Reform | |
| Automobiles and the Environment | |
| The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century | |
| Documents | |
| Ellen Swallow Richards on Human Ecology, 1907 | |
| Frederic Clements on Plant Succession, 1916 | |
| Henry Gleason on Plant Associations, 1926 | |
| Arthur Tansley Introduces the Ecosystem, 1935 | |
| Aldo Leopold Proposes a Land Ethic, 1949 | |
| Rachel Carson Warns of a Silent Spring, 1962 | |
| Eugene Odum on the Stability of the Ecosystem, 1969 | |
| Pickett and White on Patch Dynamics, 1985 | |
| Essays | |
| Ellen SwallowÆs Human Ecology | |
| Organic, Economic, and Chaotic Ecology | |
| Rachel Carson on Ecology | |
| Water and Energy in the Twentieth Century | |
| Documents | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt Dedicates Hoover Dam, 1935 | |
| The National Environmental Policy Act, 1969 | |
| Senator Gaylord Nelson Promotes the First Earth Day, 1970 | |
| Hopi Leaders on the Desecration of Their Sacred Lands, 1970 | |
| Barry Commoner on the Costs of Nuclear Energy, 1971 | |
| David Brower Protests the Damming of the West, 1990 | |
| A Reporter on the Human Costs of the Four Corners Coal Plant, 2007 | |
| Essays | |
| Water and the Environment | |
| Energy and the Environment | |
| The Environmental Movement | |
| Globalization: The United States in the Wider World | |
| Documents | |
| Carl Anthony Explains Why African-Americans Should Be Environmentalists, 1990 | |
| Principles of Environmental Justice, 1991 | |
| Winona LaDuke on Native Struggles for Land and Life, 1999 | |
| Reporters Announce a World Population of Six Billion, 1999 | |
| Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development, 2002 | |
| Rosemary Ruether on Ecofeminism and Globalization, 2005 | |
| Al Gore Explains Why Global Warming is a Global Crisis, 2006 | |
| The Copenhagen Accord on Climate Change, 2009 | |
| Essays | |
| Environmental Justice | |
| Environmental Philosophy | |
| Global Climate Change | |
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