HI 2401: Environmental History

* Getting Started
* Web Resources

* Search Tools
* Environmental History Sources
* Best Databases to Search

* Books from the Library
* Airline Advertising - 1938-1957
* WPI Archives and Special Collections
* Quality Web Sites

* Suggested Books

This page, by William Cronon - University of Wisconsin-Madison, has key stages of the research process:
* How to Frame a Researchable Question
* What Are the Documents?
* On the Search
* The Pleasures of Note-Taking
* Arguments and Narrative
* Positioning Your Argument in a Wider Literature
* Drafting, Revising, and Editing
* Manuscripts and Archives
* Prowling the Periodicals
* Government Documents
* Photographic Images
* Maps
* The Interview Dance
* Quantitative Evidence
* How to Read a Landscape

GF688 B66 2007 Print book

GF660 H55 2008 Print book

GE160 A357 M33 2006 Print book

Online

GE10 E63 2004 - 3 volumes, Print Reference Book

GE150 E53 2011 - 4 volumes, print book

24 volume print set in Gordon Library, 3rd floor

Colorado State University Libraries

Don’t be mislead by the name. This is a great Environmental History Bibliography Database.

National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. A number of reports and histories in PDF.

American Memory. Library of Congress. This site "documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress." Primary historical resources.

Dan Flores and Dennis Williams. Not comprehensive, but a large number of entries, divided by: Native Americans and American Nature, European Antecedents, American Exploration and Natural History, the Romantic Age and the Cult of Nature, Environment and the Frontier, Regional Ecological Histories, the Progressive Conservation Movement, Conservation in the 20s and New Deal, Parks and Forests, Urban and Political Issues Since WWII, Ecology (the science) and Environmentalism (the social movement),