Environmental History

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  • Animals in Nineteenth-Century America

    Animals in Nineteenth-Century America

    Animals in Nineteenth-Century America examines animal life and human-animal relationships in a pivotal century in American and world history. Spanning the “long nineteenth century” (1770s–1910s),…

  • Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents

    Ranching and the American West: A History in Documents

    The transformation of the American West is one of the key topics in the study of both US history and global environmental history. The role…

  • Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

    Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents

    In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This…