Peeling Back The Bark
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A review of "Arming Mother Nature"
By James Lewis on June 19, 2014The following book review by FHS staff historian James G. Lewis appears in the Scientists’ Nightstand section of the July-August 2014 issue of American Scientist. ARMING MOTHER NATURE: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism. Jacob Darwin Hamblin. 320 pp. Oxford University Press, 2013. $29.95. In May 1960 scientists and military officers at NATO headquarters came to a conclusion about…
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A River Runs Through Me: Experiencing Thoreau’s Maine Woods
By James Lewis on June 13, 2014Before I left to join the Thoreau-Wabanaki Journey on May 26, I had planned to write a blog post that would tie together the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s The Maine Woods with George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature and the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wilderness Act. The…
