WINTER 1996, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 2
Editor: Harold Gulley, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI 54901-8642, Telephone: (414) 424-7115 or (414) 424-4105, FAX: (414) 424-0292; E-mail: gulley@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
Craig E. Colten, PHR Environmental Consultants, 8555 16th Street, Suite 407, Silver Spring, MD 20910, Telephone: (301) 608-3656, FAX: (301) 608-3659, or E-mail: phrmd@ix.netcom.com
Historical geographers have not been without an appreciation for the practice of their craft. During the 1910s Harlan Barrows and Carl Sauer carried out investigations for the Illinois State Geological Survey and included historical surveys of human activity in their studies of the Illinois River valley. More recently, Michael Conzen and students have helped interpret the historical geography of the same waterway. These research efforts illustrate the ongoing contribution historical geogaphers can make. But how do we identify such opportunities and prepare ourselves to take advantage of them? This is certainly the difficult factor in the equation.
One way is to alert our colleagues and students to the options for practicing our craft. Much needs to be done in this respect. In the recent report on employment trends published in The Professional Geographer, there were no categories that were explicitly historical in the table of occupations for which students were being prepared. Also, in the AAG’s Careers in Geography pamphlet there is mention of historic preservation work that we could contribute to, but little else is noted. Obviously, one of our first missions is to correct the false impression that there is no practical outlet for historical geography. The irony within this statement is that historical geographers, alone in the Gaile and Wilmott volume, pointed out career options that would engage the talents of specialists in our field.
Opportunities go beyond what has been expressed in previous forums and change from day to day. From my somewhat unique vantage point, I see countless environmental reports, prepared by geotechnical or engineering firms, that contain a so-called “site history.” The paragraph generally is borrowed from a prior report that may have included a text assembled through a cursory telephone conversation. There is little thought given to documentation of sources or methods, and even less to providing a reasonable accounting of past activity at the site. Yet the balance of these mammoth reports follow detailed protocol to extract soil or groundwater samples, recount with semmingly endless detail the methods of analysis, and drone on about the need to conduct additional investigations. The site history is treated as a trivial sidebar, yet multimillion-dollar remediation plans are based, in part, on past activity at the property. Historical geographers could and should be involved in this activity.
Each of you can probably recount examples in which historical geographers did contribute or could have improved some practical undertaking. Yet, where are the chapters on historical geography in the applied geography texts? Why is there seldom more than a single session on historical geography at the applied geography meetings? Why did the National Park Service draft on qualifications for conducting cultural resource work leave out historical geography? If we are involved in scholarship with applications, shouldn’t we be telling our colleagues about it? Perhaps, the emphasis in our field has been strictly on the academic presentation. Why is this? Is it that we are hesitant to acknowledge practicing our craft? Or perhaps we simply have failed to impress upon our colleagues the value of what we do. Whatever the reason, there is a need to cultivate an accepting attitude toward the practice of historical geography--in every respect and not just academic applications.
As I wrote in the last issue of this newsletter, I am convinced that we need to continue producing good scholars. While this may seem illogical to those souls engaged in the seemingly endless search for a good academic post, it is a useful recommendation if graduates are adequately equipped to practice their craft in a setting other than in a traditional university position. Given the current restructuring of American universities, practice is an imperative.
I would like to propose two policies to address this situation:
A lthough few in number, respondents to my recent call for data on historical geography courses provided much useful information about the content of courses in which they had been enrolled as students or assigned as instructors. Among the contributors, Marshall E. Bowen (Mary Washington College), W. Frank Ainsley (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), and Harold E. Gulley (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) represent the perspective of the upper-level undergraduate course instructor. Sean B. King (University of Pittsburgh) provided feedback from undergraduate- and graduate-level courses from the student’s viewpoint, while Greg E. Nelson (Southeast Community College, Nebraska) shared his experiences as instructor in secondary education. If the evidence submitted here is representative, instruction in historical geography is challenging students with a wide array of topics and approaches.
The typical upper-level undergraduate course title is Historical Geography of the United States (or North America), and such courses include lectures and readings about cultural patterns in specific regions. Topics listed on course syllabi included discovery and exploration, Native American cultures, urban and rural development, settlement patterns, regional economies, migration patterns and processes, ethnic landscapes, and transportation systems. Commonly used textbooks are Robert D. Mitchell and Paul A. Groves, ed., North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent; Michael P. Conzen, ed., The Making of the American Landscape; Dell Upton, ed., America’s Architectural Roots; and Donald W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. Selected journal articles from Journal of Historical Geography, Geographical Review, Annals of the AAG, and others are often consulted as supplementary readings. These courses also involve methodological components to acquaint students with the approaches that historical geographers have used to carry out research. Students are then required to put these lessons into practice in brief reviews of literature and in more extensive research projects. Historic preservation is the basis of one instructor’s research assignment, with students selecting a site and then devising a preservation plan that includes cost estimates. Field projects mentioned include an urban field walk designed to help students recognize geographic and historic patterns in a market area by studying architecture, while learning about data collection and mapping; and a cemetery field trip to acquaint students with immigration through time. Films are also used for exercises to study perceptions of the past, place, and culture as themes of interest to historical geographers.
More specialized courses expand on some topics addressed in the general courses in historical geography, as well as introducing students to different issues. Examples that Sean King noted include Health and Disease in the American Habitat, a course which addresses the distribution of diseases in America since the first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, as well as Time and Space in Old and New England, which he describes as including archaeological field training along with a history of land use in Great Britain and the US. A course on archaeological applications of GIS applies geographic technology (based on IDRISI, Arc-Info, and Auto-CAD software) to the study of historical phenomena, and the textbooks used for this course are Kathleen Allen et al., ed., Interpreting Space: GIS and Archaeology; and Floyd Sabins, Jr., Remote Sensing: Principles and Interpretation.
Greg Nelson’s experience as instructor in K-12 education should encourage university faculty that some students are exposed to historical geography long before becoming college freshmen. Class projects he has developed for students in grades 8 and 10 include the following: the New Harmony, Indiana, story, stressing the rise and fall of a utopian community, implications for today's society, and students’ creating their own community with the goal of promoting rural communities; and the Oregon Trail, including integration of the Five Geographic Themes through immigrant diaries, trail recipes, 19th century music, plus recent trail activities reported in the popular media. Nelson is currently working on CD-ROMs about the Oregon Trail and Nebraska Rural Communities in Transition.
Compiled by Cathy E. Kindquist (Radford University).
Contributors: Dawn S. Bowen (Queen's University), Elizabeth Hines (University of North Carolina at Wilmington), Deborah C. Park (Queen's University), John D. Wiener (Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado), and Terence Young (Smithsonian Institution).
T his issue of Past Place marks the beginning of a new feature in this column: the Focus Section. Each issue a guest contributor will be asked to put together a selection of readings on a particular subject, region, or issue. In this month's column, Elizabeth Hines of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington introduces selected readings on the geography of hate crimes and white supremacy. These issues have burst into the headlines in recent months, but they have deep historical roots in American society. It is hoped these readings will prove to be of interest to members of the Historical Geography Specialty Group.
While not all hate crimes are committed by white supermacists, historically such groups or individuals have been the greatest offenders. An exploration of the literature of hate crimes, therefore, should include studies of the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, anti-government tax protestors, skinheads, and other ultra-right-wing groups. Recent research confirms that most members of modern hate groups are affiliated with, or at least sympathetic to, more than one group. Most are driven by a stringently anti-Semitic religion called Identity Christianity.
This bibliography lists the most recent and useful general works on hate crimes and modern white supremacy in the United States, which in turn provide additional references. A few important older and specific studies are also included. Some additional sources should also be mentioned. Currently the best source for hate crimes research and data is the Intelligence Report of Klanwatch, an arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Klanwatch's other publications and those of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the Center for Democratic Renewal in Atlanta should also be consulted. Finally, any serious study of hate crimes and white supremacy must include a reading of The Turner Diaries, the "bible" of the radical right.
Barkun, Michael. 1994. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. A detailed account of the beginnings of British Israelism and its American transformation.
Chalmers, David M. 1989. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Durham: Duke University Press. A history of the Klan and its activities.
Coates, James. 1987. Armed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Survivalist Right. New York: Noonday Press. Incudes material on the Posse Comitatus, Aryan Nations, the Order, KKK, Lone Wolves, and Identity Christianity. Some attention to the murder of talk show host Alan Berg, and the significance of The Turner Diaries.
Cohn, Norman. 1969. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. New York: Harper. The history of the hoax involving the Protocols, a document that many anti-Semites believe advocated and planned global Jewish economic domination.
Corcoran, James. 1990. Bitter Harvest: Gordon Kahl and the Posse Comitatus: Murder in the Heartland. New York: Penguin Books. In North Dakota an Identity believer and tax protester killed three U.S. Marshals. He later died in a shootout in Arkansas, becoming a radical right martyr.
Dees, Morris and Steve Fifer. 1993. Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi. New York: Villard Books. The prosecution of Tom Metzger and the White Aryan Resistance for the murder of Mulegeta Seraw in Portland, Oregon.
Finn, Peter and Taylor McNeil. 1988. Bias Crime and the Criminal Justice Response: A Summary Report Prepared for the National Criminal Justice Association. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates. Hate crimes and the response by law enforcement.
Gibson, James William. 1994. Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Viet Nam America. New York: Hill and Wang. A primer on the psychology of modern American survivalism and paramilitary activity.
Hamm, Mark S. 1993. American Skinheads: The Criminology and Control of Hate Crimes. Westport, CT: Praeger. Skinhead groups and their involvement in different types of hate crimes.
Higham, Charles. 1985. American Swastika. New York: Doubleday. Biography of George Lincoln Rockwell, a post-World War II American Nazi and mentor of William Pierce, author of The Turner Diaries.
Jeansonne, Glen. 1988. Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate. New Haven: Yale University Press. Biography of a pre-World War II rightist whose ideas about Jewish conspiracy helped to shape the modern neo-Nazism of the Aryan Nations.
Klanwatch. 1989. Hate Violence and White Supremacy: A Decade Review, 1980-1989. Montgomery: Southern Poverty Law Center. Basic source of information on hate crimes and white supremacist movements in the 1980s.
Lamy, Philip. 1991. "The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth: Survivalism and the American Millennial Myth." Ph.D. Dissertation, Northeastern University. Millenialism, survivalism, and white supremacy.
Langer, Elinor. 1990. "The American Neo-Nazi Movement Today." The Nation 23(July 16):82-107. A concise treatment of the contemporary neo-Nazi movement
Lee, V. 1990. "Legislative Responses to Hate-Motivated Violence: The Massachusetts Experience and Beyond." Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 25:287-340. An assessment of legislative measures and their impact on hate crimes.
Leiberman, Michael. 1990. "The Hate Crimes Statistics Act." ADL Bulletin May-June:1. Brief but important bulletin regarding hate crimes in the United States.
Levin, Jack and Jack McDevitt. 1993. Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed. New York: Plenum Press. Book on contemporary white supremacy in America and its recent history and patterns.
Lipset, Seymour M. and Earl Rabb. 1979. The Politics of Unreason: Right Wing Extremism in America, 1709-1970. New York: Harper and Row. A scholarly critique and history of the American right.
Lutz, Chris (compiler). 1987. They Don't All Wear Sheets: A Chronology of Racist and Far Right Violence, 1980-1986. Atlanta: Center for Democratic Renewal. A chronology of hate crimes and related developments in the 1980s.
MacDonald, Andrew (psyeudonym of William Pierce). 1985. The Turner Diaries. Hillsboro, WV: National Vanguard Books. Influential book, considered the "bible" of the radical right by many. Racist, anti-Semitic, anti-government novel of racial Armageddon written by an avowed neo-Nazi and radical right propagandist.
Matsuda, Mari J., Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw. 1993. Words That Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment. Boulder: Westview Press. Issues involved with hate speech.
Mintz, Frank P. 1985. The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. A critical history of the ultra-right organization that promulgates ideas of Jewish and federal conspiracies.
Moore, Jack B. 1993. Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Press. A historical and sociological exploration of the British roots of the American Skinhead movement, and the culture of racism that has evolved on this side of the Atlantic.
Ridgeway, James. 1990. Blood in the Face: The KKK, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture. New York: Thunder Mouth Press. This book discusses demonstrates the interconnectedness of modern hate groups and their leaders. Includes a graphic timetable and numerous photographs.
Singular, Stephen. 1987. Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg. New York: Beech Tree Books. Book on the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg. Berg was killed by white supremacists because of the views he expressed, and because he was Jewish.
Wade, Wyn Craig. 1987. The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. New York: Simon and Schuster. A history of the Klan in America.
Weber, Timothy P. 1983. Living in the Shadow of the Second Coming: American Premillenialism, 1875-1982. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Corporation. The belief that the world will end at the turn of the century underlies some radical right theories and activities. This work examines millenialism and its influence over the past century.
Wheaton, Elizabeth. 1987. Codename: Greenkil - The 1979 Greensboro Killings. Atlanta: University of Georgia Press. An account of the KKK and neo-Nazi massacre of five Communist Part Worker members.
Zeskind, Leonard. 1986. The Christian Identity Movement: A Theological Justification for Racist and Anti-Semitic Violence. N.p.: The Division of Church and Society of the National Council for the Churches of Christ in the USA. Zeskind is with the Center for Democratic Renewal in Atlanta. This work examines the Identity Movement and its relationship to American hate groups and hate crimes.
Amundson, Michael A. 1995. "Home on the Range No More: The Boom and Bust of a Uranium Mining Town, 1957-1988." Western Historical Quarterly 26 (4):483-505. Energy Policy, Mining, American West
Ayala, Cesar J. 1995. "Social and Economic Aspects of Sugar Production in Cuba, 1880-1930." Latin American Research Review 30 (1):95-124. Economic Development, Agriculture, Caribbean
Bankoff, Greg. 1995. "Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime Southeast Asia." Environmental History Review 19 (3):17-38. Environment, State, Asia
Berkes, F., D. Feeney, B. J. McCay, and J. M. Acheson. 1989. "The Benefits of the Commons." Nature 340:91-93. Environment, Society, Global Resources
Binnema, Theodore. 1995. "'A Feudal Vassalage': Limited Identities in the Prairie West, 1870-1896." Prairie Forum 20 (2):1-18. Hinterland, Promotional Literature, Prairie West
Bowen, Dawn S. 1995. "'Forward to a Farm': Land Settlement as Unemployment Relief in the 1930s." Prairie Forum 20 (2):207-229. Settlement, Depression, Prairie West
Bromley, D.W. 1990. "The Ideology of Effeciency: Searching for a Theory of Policy Analysis." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 19 (1):86-107. Environment, Policy, Theory
Brunner, R.D. and W. Ascher. 1992. "Science and Social Responsibility." Policy Sciences 25:295-331. Science, Society, Policy
Bunting, Robert. 1995. "The Environment and Settler Society in Western Oregon." Pacific Historical Review 64 (3):413-432. Environment, Landscape, Oregon
Carlton, David L. and Peter A. Coclanis. 1995. "The Uninventive South? A Quantitative Look at Region and American Inventiveness." Technology and Culture 36 (2):302-326. Technology, Innovation, United States
Clark, C.W. 1989. "Clear-Cut Economies." The Sciences 29 (1):17-19. Environment, Economics
DeWalt, B.R. 1994. "Using Indigenous Knowledge to Improve Agriculture and Natural Resource Management." Human Organization 53 (2):123-131. Environment, Agriculture, Resource Management
Evenden, Matthew D. 1995. "The Laborers of Nature: Economic Ornithology and the Role of Birds as Agents of Biological Pest Control in North American Agriculture, ca. 1880-1930." Forest and Conservation History 39 (4):172-183. Environment, Agriculture, North America
Eyles, J. 1993. "From Disease Ecology and Spatial Analysis to... The Challenges of Medical Geography in Canada." Health and Canadian Society 1:113-145. Medical Geography, Disease Ecology, Canada
Franklin, Ursula M. 1993. "Does Scholarly Publishing Promote Scholarship or Scholars?" Scholarly Publishing 24 (4):248-252. Ethics, Scholarly Publishing
Note: This citation and several others are taken from a special issue of Scholarly Publishing: A Journal for Authors and Publishers titled "The Ethics of Scholarly Publishing." The entire issue is highly recommended.
Gillespie, J. Lodge Jr. 1994. "Rhetoric and Reality: Corporate America's Perceptions of Southeast Asia, 1950-1961." Business History Review 68(Autumn):325-363. Perception, Business, Asia
Golledge, R. G. 1991. "Tactual Strip Maps as Navigational Aids." Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 85:296-301. Tactual Maps, Blindness, Disabilities
Guinan, Mary E. 1993. "The Myth of Science as a Value-free Discipline." Scholarly Publishing 24 (4):263-268. Ethics, Research, Scholarly Publishing
Gulley, Harold E. 1995. "British and Irish Toponyms in the South Atlantic States." Names 43 (2):85-102. Place Names, British Isles, American South
Gutman, Myron P. and Christie G. Sample. 1995. "Land, Climate and Settlement on the Texas Frontier." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 99 (2):137-172. Settlement, Transportation, Texas
Hughes, J. Donald. 1995. "Ecology and Development as Narrative Themes of World History." Environmental History Review 19 (1):1-16. Environment, Ecology, Development
Igler, David. 1995. "Industrial Cowboys: Corporate Ranching in Late Nineteenth Century California." Agricultural History 69 (2):201-215. Land Monopolies, Ranching, California
Kilpinen, Jon T. 1995. "The Front-Gabled Log Cabin and the Role of the Great Plains in the Formation of the Mountain West's Built Landscape." Great Plains Quarterly 15 (1):19-31. Landscape, Diffusion, American West
Lang, Robert E., Deborah Epstein Popper, and Frank J. Popper. 1995. "'Progress of the Nation': The Settlement History of the Enduring American Frontier." Western Historical Quarterly 15 (1):289-307. Settlement, Frontier Thesis, American West
Ludwig, D., R. Hilborn, and C. Walters. 1993. "Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History." Science 260:17-18. Environment, Resource Management, Conservation
McKibben, Bill. 1995. "An Explosion of Green." Atlantic Monthly 275 (April):61-83. Environment, Forests, United States
McMath, Robert C. 1995. "Populism in Two Countries: Agrarian Protest in the Great Plains and Prairie Provinces." Agricultural History 69 (4):517-546. Progressive Movement, Regionalism, North America
Norgaard, R.B. 1990. "Economic Indicators of Resource Scarcity: A Critical Essay." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 19 (1):19-25. Resources, Economy, Society
Osborne, Brian S. and Susan E. Wurtele. 1995. "The Other Railway: Canadian National's Department of Colonization and Agriculture." Prairie Forum 20 (2):231-253. Settlement, National Integration, Canada.
Palka, Eugene J. 1995. "Coming to Grips with the Concept of Landscape." Landscape Journal 14 (1):63-73. Landscape, Culture, Geographic Thought
Parenteau, Bill and L. Anders Sandberg. 1995. "Conservation and the Gospel of Economic Nationalism: The Canadian Pulpwood Question in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick." Environmental History Review 19 (2):57-84. Environment, Nationalism, Canada
Platteau, J. P. 1994a. "Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist: The Role of Public and Private Order Institutions." Journal of Development Studies 30 (3):533-578. Economy, Institiutions
Platteau, J. P. 1994b. "Behind the Market Stage Where Real Societies Exist: The Role of Moral Norms." Journal of Development Studies 30 (4):753-818. Economy, Society
Radford, J. P. 1994. "Eugenics and the Asylum." Journal of Historical Sociology 7:462-473. Asylum Geography, Eugenics
Radford, J. P. and D. C. Park. 1993. "'A Convenient Means of Riddance': Institutionalization of People Diagnosed as 'Mentally Deficient' in Ontario, 1876-1934." Health and Canadian Society 1:369-392. Asylum Geography, Intellectual Disability, Ontario
Radford, J. P. and D. C. Park. 1995. "The Eugenic Legacy." Journal on Developmental Disabilities 4:63-74. Asylum Geography, Sterilization
Reid, Anthony. 1995. "Humans and Forests in Pre-colonial Southeast Asia." Environment and History 1 (February):93-110. Environment, Forests, Asia
Sachs, Aaron. 1995. "Humboldt's Legacy and the Restoration of Science." World Watch 8 (March/April):28-38. Alexander von Humboldt, Science, History of Geography
Scheider-Hector, Dietmar. 1995. "White Sands: National Monument and National Park." Journal of the Southwest 37 (Spring):53-78. Environment, Parks, United States
Sheinin, Rose. 1993. "Academic Freedom and Integrity and Ethics in Publishing." Scholarly Publishing 24 (4):232-247. Academic Freedom, Ethics, Scholarly Publishing
Terrie, Philip G. 1995. "'Imperishable Freshness': Culture, Conservation, and the Adirondack Park." Forest and Conservation History 37 (3):132-141. Environment, Parks, New York State
Woolf, Patricia K. 1993. "Integrity and Accountability in Research and Publication." Scholarly Publishing 24 (4):204-213. Ethics, Research, Scholarly Publishing
Wynn, Graeme. 1995. "Maps and Dreams of Nationhood: A (Re)View of the Historical Atlas of Canada." Canadian Historical Review 76 (3):482-510. Historical Atlas, Representation, Canada
Contact: Cathy Kindquist, Department of Geography, Radford University, Box 6938, Radford, VA 24142 Telephone: (540) 831-5254 or E-mail: ckindqui@ruacad.ac.runet.edu
Paper Session (Wed. 4/10/96, 9:55 a.m.) Constructing Identities I: Gender and Ethnicity-Historical Perspectives Karin Morin (Bucknell Univ.) “Squaws and Spinsters: Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century West.” Susan Wurtele (Trent Univ.) “Tending the Garden: Cultivating Canadianization through Domestic Transformation.” Deryck Holdsworth (Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Anne Mosher (Syracuse Univ.) “Homeownership and Ethnicity in Early Twentieth-Century Pennsylvania and New York.” Discussant: Mona Domosh (Florida Atlantic Univ.)
Panel Session (Wed. 4/10/96, 9:55 a.m.) Historical Environments Frederick Sunderman (Louisiana State Univ.) “Post-Contact Choctaw Landscape Change in the Pearl River Basin, Mississippi, 1540-1830.” David Hardin (Longwood Coll.) “Regional Environmental Variation, Agriculture, and Landscape Change in Colonial Tidewater Virginia.” Marguerite Shaffer (Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington) “The Lure of the Beach: A Case Study of Wrightsville Beach NC, 1887-1934.” Michael Williams (Oxford Univ.) “Shadows of the Forest.” Discussant: Thad Tate (Coll. of William & Mary)
Paper Session (Thurs. 4/11/96, 8:00 a.m.) Accessing America's Parks Julie Tuason (Southwest Texas State Univ.) “Gender and the Spatial Transformation of Urban Parks, 1890-1910.” Terence Young (Nat. Museum of American History, Smithsonian Inst.) “Administration, Development, and Access: The American Civic Association's Motivation for a National Park Service.” William Wyckoff (Montana State Univ.) “Escalating Access and Development. Along Glacier's Alpine Automobile Corridor.” Lary Dilsaver (Univ. of South Alabama) “Use, Preservation and the National Park System Roster.” Discussant: William Solecki (Florida State Univ.)
Paper Session (Thurs. 4/11/96, 9:55 a.m.) Geographies of Spectacular Failure: The Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare. Scott Kirsch (Univ. of Colorado) “Experiments in Progress: Edward Teller's Controversial Geographies.” John Krygier (Pennsylvania State Univ.) “Atomic Spectacle in a Marginal Landscape: Project Plowshare in Pennsylvania.” Susan W. S. Millar (Central Connecticut State Univ.) and Don Mitchell (Univ. of Colarado, Boulder) “Spectacular Failure, Contested Success: The project Chariot Bioenvironmental Program.” Stephen Frenkel (Univ. of Oregon) “Whose Land Is It Anyway?: Planning a Nuclear Canal in Panama.” Discussant: Denis Cosgrove (Royal Holloway and Bedford New Coll.)
Paper Session (Thurs. 4/11/96, 3:40 p.m.) North Atlantic Commerce in the 18th and 19th Centuries Daniel Hopkins (Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City) “Two Agricultural Entrepreneurs on the Danish Guinea coast, ca. 1790-1815.” Joseph Leydon (Univ. of Toronto) “Financing the Irish Provisions Trade.” Bradford Hunter (Pennsylvania State Univ.) “Sourcing Materials in the American South to Build Wooden Ships in the North.” Discussant: Marie Price (George Washington Univ.)
Tribute (Thurs. 4/11/96, 3:40 p.m.)A Tribute to Cole Harris Richard Nostrand (Univ. of Oklahoma) Tribute. Cole Harris (Univ. of British Columbia) “Colonialism and Ethnic Erasure.” Discussants: Jeanne Kay (Univ. of Waterloo), Victor Konrad (US Fulbright Program), and Robert Rundstrom (Univ. of Oklahoma)
Panel Session (Fri. 4/12/96, 9:55 a.m.) Creating Place: The Interplay of Photography and Landscape Joan Schwartz (Queens Univ & National Archives of Canada) “Photographs and the Construction of Imaginative Geographies.” Steven Hoelscher (Louisiana State Univ.) “‘A Pretty Strange Place’: Scenic Tourism in the Wisconsin Dells.” Christina Dando (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) “Photography and the 'Selling' of the Great Plains Landscape.” Samuel Batzli (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “‘Travel for the Mind’: Touring America by Stereography in 1910.” Discussant: Deryck Holdsworth (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
Panel Session (Fri. 4/12/96, 1:45 p.m.) The National Road Project Panelists: Peirce Lewis (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Karl Raitz (Univ. of Kentucky), Rich Schein (Univ. of Kentucky), George Thompson (Ctr. for American Places/Johns Hopkins Univ. Press), Charles Waters (Colorado Coll.), Joseph Wood (George Mason Univ.)
Paper Session (Sat. 4/13/96, 1:45 p.m.) Gender and Cartography I: Histories of Cartography and Gender Judith A. Tyner (California State Univ.-Long Beach) “The Hidden Cartographers: Women and Maps.” Dalia Varanka (Bureau of Land Management-Milwaukee) “The Manly Map, the English construction of gender in Early Modern Cartography.” Patrick H. McHaffie and Amy L. Ahner (West Georgia Coll. and City of Villa Rica, GA) “Situating Public Cartographic Labor: (Wo)manufacturing Meaning.” Christi A. Mitchell (Univ. of Southern Maine) “Women's Education and Observation: Maps and Images of Emma Willard.” Discussant: Barbara Belyea (Univ. of Calgary)
Panel Session (Sat. 4/13/96, 3:40 p.m.) The Uses of Nature Panelists: Denis Cosgrove (Royal Holloway and Bedford New Coll.) “Nature as a Source of Symbols.” Robert Sack (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) “Nature as a Place.” Thomas Vale (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) “Nature as a Source of Truth.” James Wescoat (Univ. of Colorado) “Nature as a Resouce.” Terence Young (Nat. Museum of American History, Smithsonian Inst.) “Nature as a Source of Goodness.”
In related news, the American Society for Environmental History is merging with the Forest History Society and will have the following address: 701 Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701-3147. ASEH’s telephone number is (919) 682-9319. Membership includes subscriptions to Environmental History, a quarterly journal, and ASEH News, a newsletter. Individual memberships for ASEH are $35.00 ($50.00 for joint FHS membership), while student rates are $17.50 for ASEH ($25.00 for joint FHS membership).
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