The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History

A project of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE), the library address the need for objective, scientifically sound information on environmental issues.

Resources in Environmental History

http://www.library.cmu.edu/bySubject/History/environment.html

A comprehensive site from Carnegie Mellon University with links to environmental history associations, organizations, institutes, biographical resources, etc.

What Is Environmental History?

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/envhist.html

2. Environmental History Societies and Related Associations

American Society for Environmental History

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~environ/

Environmental History Discussion Lists (H-ASEH, H-Sci-Med-Tech, etc.)

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/hstm_ema.htm

Environmental History Discussion Lists (various topics)

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~aseh/archives/threads/

Forest History Society

http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/

The Institute for Environmental History

http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/history/envhist/

3. Archival Materials

American Memory: Digital Collections from the Library of Congress

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html

American Studies Web

http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/asw/

Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives

http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/neh/neh.html

Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html

Exploring the West from Monticello

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/

Digital images of maps and navigational aids used in planning the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as links to related resources.

Hetch Hetchy Controversy

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/consbib8.html

Nature and Wilderness as Recreational Resources

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/consbib7.html

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project

http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~jfd3a/

Smithsonian Institute

http://www.si.edu/

U.S. Historical Documents

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

Voices from the Dust Bowl

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html

4. Bibliographies

Directory to Bibliography in Environmental Ethics

http://ecoethics.net/bib/

Environmental Publications (search)

http://www2.links2go.com/topic/Environmental_Publications

Environmental History (journal of American Society for Environmental History)

http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/hstm/data/529.htm

Environment and History (journal of American Society for Environmental History)

http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/EH.html

Non Timber Forest Product Bibliography Online

http://www.ifcae.org/cgibin/ntfp/db/dbsql/db.cgi?db=bib&uid=default

The United States History Index (bibliographies and searches)

http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/USA/index.html

5. Biographical Resources

Edward Abbey

http://www.utsidan.se/abbey/

Ansel Adams

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/adams.html

Jane Addams

http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html

Isabella Bird

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7385/

Rachel Carson

http://onlineethics.org/moral/carson/main.html

http://rachelcarson.org/

George Washington Carver

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/carver.html

Barry Commoner

http://www.sciam.com/interview/commoner/062397commoner.html

James Fenimore Cooper

http://library.cmsu.edu/cooper/COOPER.HTM

Paul Ehrlich

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/population_bomb/theshow/bio.html

Thomas Jefferson

http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/frame5.htm

http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/

Chief Joseph

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm

Aldo Leopold

http://www.wilderness.org/profiles/leopold.htm

George Perkins Marsh

http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/gmarsh.html

http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~slca/microform/resources/f-g/g_023a.htm

John Muir

http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/

Gifford Pinchot

http://www.pinchot.org/gt/gp.html

John Wesley Powell

http://www.powellmuseum.org/MajorPowell.html

Theodore Roosevelt

http://tlc.ai.org/tr.htm

Wallace Stegner

http://206.14.7.53/gic/Stegner/wallace.html

Henry David Thoreau

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7687/1thorea.html

Frederick Jackson Turner

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/home.html

Stewart Udall

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/udall/udall.asp

6. Environmental Organizations and Information Centers

American Nature Study Society

http://hometown.aol.com/anssonline/index.htm

Earth Island Institute

http://www.earthisland.org

The EcoJustice Network

http://www.igc.apc.org/envjustice/pocdir/

The Environmental Information Center:

http://www.tei.or.th/eic/

The Center is a resource for public education campaigns, focusing on grass-roots organizing.

Environmental Organization Web Directory

http://www.webdirectory.com/

History Television

http://www.historytelevision.ca/

National Audubon Society

http://www.audubon.org/

Nature Conservancy

http://www.tnc.org

Natural History Resources (organizations, government agencies)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/subway/subway.html

Rocky Mountain Institute

http://www.rmi.org

The Sierra Club

http://www.sierraclub.org/history/

The club’s history and successful battles to protect the nation’s resources.

7. Environmental Philosophy and Ethics

Environmental Ethics

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/ethics.html

Directory to Bibliography in Environmental Ethics

http://ecoethics.net/bib/

Figures in Environmental History and Ethics

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~gmyers/eheassign1.html

The International Association for Environmental Philosophy

http://www.environmentalphilosophy.org/

Web Sites Devoted to Environmental Philosophy

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/isenberg.html

8. Government Agencies

Army Corps of Engineers

http://www.usace.army.mil/

Bureau of Land Management

http://www.blm.gov

Bureau of Reclamation

http://www.usbr.gov

Environmental Protection Agency

http://www.epa.gov

The Federal Web Locator

http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/

Geographic Information Systems

http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html

History in the National Park Service: Ask a Historian

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/askhist.htm

The National Environmental Data Index

http://www.nedi.gov/

National Park Service

http://www.nps.gov

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

http://www.fws.gov/index.html

U.S. Forest Service

http://www.fs.fed.us/

U.S. Government Environmental Web Sites

http://members.aol.com/fitzenviro/sites.html

9. Natural History

Alaskan Animals

http://www.teelfamily.com/links/animals/

American Nature Study Society

http://hometown.aol.com/anssonline/index.htm

Desert Fishes

http://www.utexas.edu/ftp/depts/tnhc/.www/fish/dfc/dfc_topc.html

Endangered Species of Hawaii

http://hisurf.com/~enchanted/

Salmon

http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/salmon.htm

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

http://www.fws.gov/

10. Natural Resources

Agricultural History and Rural Studies

http://www.iastate.edu/~history_info/ahahs/links.htm

A page of links to archival resources, publications, and museums related to agricultural history in the United States.

International River Networks: River Basics

http://www.irn.org/basics/basic.shtml

Information on the history of dams from the perspective of an international environmental organization committed to protecting wild rivers.

Those interested in specific dams should search the Web using the name of that dam, as there are innumerable sites devoted to individual dams such as the Grand Coulee, the Hoover, and the Glen Canyon.

Mining History Association

http://www.lib.mtu.edu/mha/mha.htm

Association for those interested in the history of mining and metallurgy. Site contains links to archival resources and to other related organizations.

Sites of Ecological Interest

http://eagle.bio.unipr.it/EcoWWW.html

11. Regional Resources

Alaska Volcanos

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/html/resource.html

Albuquerque’s Environmental Story

http://www.cabq.gov/aes/s1geol.html

American Environmental Photographs, 1891–1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html

The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/

Kansas Historical Geography

http://www.kgs.ukans.edu/Publications/primer/primer01.html

Los Angeles River Tour

http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/target/units/river/riverweb.html

Maps of the Southwest

http://www.calacademy.org/research/library/elkus/stories/maps.htm

The Midwestern U.S. 16,000 Years Ago

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/

Native American Environmental Curriculum Project

http://mesa.colorado.edu/~topper/nsfhome.htm

Northwest Hatcheries’ History

http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~josh/salmon/chrono.html

Pacific Northwest Logging History

http://www.aone.com/~robert/histlog.html

A Trip Through the Grand Canyon

http://www.azstarnet.com/grandcanyonriver/GCrt.html

United States Research Report Links

http://swasco.net/New%20Web%20Pages/saxton/usregions/intro.html

A site with links to various Web resources for historical research. Divided by geographical region.

WestWeb: Western Environmental History

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/enviro.html

A collection of Web resources for those interested specifically in the history of the American West.

12. Environmental Justice Resources

Cesar Chavez

http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/

A Web site commemorating his life and achievements.

The Ecojustice Network

http://www.igc.apc.org/envjustice/

The Network addresses environmental issues facing communities of color in the United States and provides on-line services, informational resources, and training for activists and organizations involved in the environmental justice movement.

History of Environmental Justice

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrajzer/nre/history.html

13. Teaching Resources

EELink-Environmental Education on the Internet

http://www.eelink@eelink.umich.edu/

A site dedicated to assisting educators in integrating environmental issues and learning into their curricula. Intended for students, teachers and education professionals.

Environmental History for High School Students and Teachers

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5777/index.htm

Environmental Science Education Resources

http://www.educationindex.com/environ/

Green Teacher

http://www.greenteacher.com/

A Web version of the quarterly magazine by and for K–12 educators, includes articles, ready-to-use activities, and resource listings and reviews.

Figures in Environmental History and Ethics

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~gmyers/eheassign1.html

Guide to Environmental Education

http://princetonol.com/groups/stonybrook/envedu.html

Resources for Teaching and Researching Northwest Environmental History

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/

Science and Technology Curriculum Guide (Grades K–12)

http://princetonol.Com/groups/stonybrook/links.htm#teach

WestWeb: On Teaching Western History (Resources)

http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/pages/teach.html

14. Course Syllabi in American Environmental History

American Environmental and Cultural History (U.C. Berkeley)

http://cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/espm160

American Environmental History (Brown University)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/isenberg.html

American Environmental History (Western Washington University)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/stewart.htm

American Environmental History (University of Arizona)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/weiner2.htm

American Environmental History (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/crononl.htm

Environmental History of the Americas (University of Dayton)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/bednarek.htm

Environmental History Syllabi

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/

Global Issues in Environmental History (College of New Rochelle)

http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~collie/global.html

Natural Resources/Environmental Issues (Willamette University)

http://www.willamette.edu/dept/newspub/media_resource/nat_resources.html

Nature and Culture in the American Landscape (Bowdoin College)

http://library.bowdoin.edu/classes/hist/226.2/

N.E.H. Environmental History Instate at Kansas State University

http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~jsherow/envirohp.htm

North American Environmental History (University of Kansas)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/worster2.htm

Social and Environmental History (Washington State University)

http://h-net2.msu.edu/~aseh/syllabi/sonnen.htm

Surveys of Environmental History Programs

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~aseh/surveys.html

15. General Environmental Education

EE-Link: Environmental Education on the Internet

http://nceet.snre.umich.edu/

Environmental Education

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/education.html

Environmental History for High School Teachers

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5777/index.htm

Interactive Mapping Ideas and Resources

http://www.mapcruzin.com/mapideas.htm

Links for Students of History and the Social Sciences

http://www.vwc.edu/wwwpages/dgraf/graf32a.htm

Resources for Teaching and Researching Northwest Environmental History

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~forrest/

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: History

http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.html

16. Historical Overview Web Sites

The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000–1875

Environmental History: Explore the Field

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist

American Society for Environmental History resources

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~environ/resources.html

Buffalo and American Indians

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/buffalo.htm

The Columbian Exchange

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/Columbian.htm

Native American Religion

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/natrel.htm

Pueblo Indians of Mesa Verde

http://www.swcolo.org/Tourism/Archaeology/MesaVerde.html

Religious traditions of the Micmac

http://www.mun.ca/rels/hrollmann/native/micmac/micmac1.html

Squanto’s history

http://members.aol.com/calebj/squanto.html

Syllabus for a course on world environmental history

http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/faculty/dominick/history765.htm

University of Colorado environmental history resource links

http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/environhist.html

Wampanoag Horticulture

http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Wampanoag/wamphort.htm

The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600–1850

Cattle in Plymouth Colony

http://members.aol.com/calebj/cattle.html

The Mayflower’s Voyage

http://members.aol.com/calebj/voyage.html

Who are the Puritans?

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/puritan.htm

Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/puritan.htm

William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation (1620–1647)

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/14-bra.html

The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600–1900

Antebellum White South Economy

http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/white_south/market.htm

Robert Beverley: The History and Present State of Virginia (1705–6)

http://www.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/0colhis/vlls-89.htm

The Civil War: An Environmental View

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/amcwar.htm

The Enterprise Boll Weevil Monument today

http://www.al.com/wacky/vandals.html

John White and Roanoke Island

http://www.nps.gov/fora/jwhite.htm

Nature and the Market Economy, 1750–1850

Crevecoeur and American Identity and the Letters

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/crev.htm

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/home.html

Harvard Forest Models

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/04.15/harvard.forest.html

Jefferson as reflection of America’s racial ambiguity

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/jeffer/jeffer.htm

Paintings of the Hudson River School

http://dfl.highlands.com/DFL_Painters/Index.html

Poems of Phillis Wheatley

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/5471/president/pw_intro.htm

Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plains, 1820–1930

African Americans in the Fur Trade West

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/furtrade.htm

Cultural History of the South Yuba River Canyon

http://www.websterweb.com/Museums_Parks/syrp/syrc/index.html

The Gold Rush

http://www.sacbee.com/goldrush/

Pioneer and Emigrant Women

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/pioneer.html

Urban Environments, 1850–1960

Jane Addams’s Hull-House Museum and Biographies

http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/

Environmental Justice and Chester, Pennsylvania

http://www.penweb.org/chester/

Garbage Timeline

http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm

Roads, Highways, and Ecosystems

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntuseland/essays/roads.htm

Conservation and Preservation, 1785–1950

The Challenge of the Arid West

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/aridwest.htm

Conservation chronology : 1847–1920

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/cnchron3.html

Northern Pacific Railroad establishes Yellowstone as a profit center

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/RAILROAD/ystone.html

John Muir’s 1909 pamphlet advocating preservation of Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite

http://www.sfmuseum.org/john/muir.html

John Wesley Powell - brief biography

http://www.desertusa.com/magnov97/nov_pap/du_jwpowell.html

The Puritan Origins of the American Wilderness Movement

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/puritan.htm

The regulation of grazing on public rangelands, past and present

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jalbert/cowsch4.htm

The History of Yosemite National Park

http://www.terraquest.com/highsights/valley/yoshist.html

Indian Land Policy, 1800–1990

The Cherokee Trail of Tears

http://rosecity.net/tears/

http://ngeorgia.com/history/cherokeeindex.html

Current tensions between the Miccosukee Tribe and the National Park Service in Everglades National Park

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/resources/hii46735.000/hii46735_0.htm

The Flight of the Nez Perce

http://www.bitterroot.net/usdafs/NezPerceflight.html

History of the Southern Utes

http://www.southern-ute.nsn.us/

Klamath Indians and U.S. Forest Service: struggles over water and land

http://www.newswest.com/naissues/klamath/klamath.html

Photographs of Chief Plenty Coups and Crow villagers

http://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/digital/throssel/photographs.htm

The Sheepeaters

http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/misc/sheepeaters.html

The Rise of Ecology, 1890–1990

American environmental photographs 1891–1936

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/aephome.html

Environmental Conflict in History—Middle Ages to Rachel Carson

http://geocities.com/RainForest/3621/HIST.HTM

Frederic Clements and forest succession

http://www.anu.edu.au/Forestry/silvinative/daniel/chapter2/2.2.html

Aldo Leopold: a profile

http://tws.org/profiles/leopold.htm

The Era of Environmentalism, 1940–2000

Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/carson.htm

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Ecojustice Network

http://www.igc.org/envjustice/

Environmental justice programs at the EPA

http://es.epa.gov/oeca/main/ej/ejustepa.html

Environmental philosophers

http://baobabcomputing.com/naturalphilosophy/

Hoover Dam: perspectives and images

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA98/haven/hoover/front2.html

Pesticide Information Center On-line

http://picol.cahe.wsu.edu/

Martha Ellen Stortz essay on environmental ethics

http://www.webofcreation.org/education/articles/stortz.htm