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Donald Worster is Hall Distinguished Professor of American
History at the University of Kansas. Worster is the author of a
number of books, including The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History
and the Ecological Imagination (1993); Under Western Skies: Nature
and History in the American West (1992); The Ends of the Earth:
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History (1988); and Dust Bowl:
The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979).
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Americans and the Natural World
February 18-22, 1998
at Southwestern Oklahoma State University
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The American nation developed, from its beginning down through
the twentieth century, a strong identification with nature.
Indeed, we have often called ourselves "Nature's Nation".
This seminar explored that enthusiasm for nature, wild and not-so-wild,
from the age of Thomas Jefferson down to the age of ecology.
Participants explored the rich legacy of thought and art that
encountering North American nature has left us, a legacy created
by women and men of various races and ethnicities. They traced
the movement that came out of that legacy, a movement to conserve
nature in the form of parks, forests, grasslands, wilderness,
rivers, soils, and seashores, and they examined that movement's
complex implications for our traditional ideas of freedom, property,
and democracy.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas,
D. Worster, 1994.
Selected articles.
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