For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majoritie...

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, ...

Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy, focusing particularly on nuclea...

On July 31, 1937, seventeen-year-old Elmo Melosi, an Italian-American from suburban California, b...

The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. forces in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, came as a tremendous s...

The early luxury of free forage on unclaimed western public domain allowed the building of fortun...

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majoritie...

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of u...

Water in North American Environmental History offers 25 cases studies that explore the range of u...

Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the cons...

Consumption and Waste in American Environmental History is an accessible introduction to the cons...

Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.

Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans ...

Houston's meteoric rise from a bayou trading post to the world's leading oil supplier owes much t...

Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully infl...

Examines water resources in the United States and addresses whether access to water is an inalien...

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth-...

As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing ...