Environmental History
General Interest
Environmental History: Explore the Field
Learn about doing environmental history at the national, regional, and local levels.
Environmental History Timeline
A tour through nine ages of human environmental history.
Nature Transformed: The Environment and Human History
Essays by leading scholars on Native Americans and the land, wilderness and American identity, and the use of the land.
Native Americans and the Environment
Describes and cataloges thousands of Internet and published resources; includes a document archive and a case studies section addressing specific issues.
Organizations
Centre for World Environmental History
The Centre for World Environmental History was launched in May 2002 under the aegis of the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex. Although global in its expertise and aims, the CWEH specialises in the environmental history of the tropics.
Forest History Society
The Forest History Society links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources.
H-Environment
A gateway to information concerning past human interactions with nature, H-Environment is supported by the American Society for Environmental History and the European Society for Environmental History.
History of Science Society
The world's largest society dedicated to understanding science, technology, medicine, and their interactions with society in their historical context.
Western History Association
The Western History Association exists to promote the study of the North American West in all its varied aspects and in its broadest sense.
Publications
Environmental History
The leading journal for scholars, scientists, and practitioners, Environmental History carries international articles that portray human interactions with the natural world over time.
Environment and History
An interdisciplinary journal which aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together, with the deliberate intention of constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936: Images from the University of Chicago Library
Approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through materials drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress.
Mapping the National Parks
Approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present, documenting the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks.
The American West
The American West
The history and development of the American West, from the frontier and pioneer days of the Wild West, to today's modern West.
The Multicultural American West: A Resource Site
A space for the interactive exchange of ideas, information, and educational tools related to the American West in multicultural and intercultural perspective.
People, Prairies, and Plains
The web site for the 1995-96 N.E.H. Environmental History Institute at Kansas State University, the aim of which was to immerse 30 K-12 teachers in the humanities and sciences in a study of environmental history.
WestWeb
A topically-organized website about the study of the American West created and maintained by Catherine Lavender of the Department of History, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York.
World Environmental History
Environmental History Resources
Provides insights and resources of world environmental history, but with a focus on northwestern Europe.