Conevery Bolton Valencius
Biographic Data
| ID | 1007164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Conevery Bolton Valencius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Conevery Bolton |
| FAMILY NAME | Valencius |
| SIGNATURE | VALENCIUS C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5513-4407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture: Boom: Why Historians of Science Need to Talk About Energy – and Shale
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940, Elliott Bowen
By the 1910s, concluded one public health report, ‘to the average layman, Hot Springs, Arkansas means VD, and VD means Hot Springs’(p. 2). Hot Springs is a pretty town in south-central Arkansas (USA), where hot and mineral-rich waters well out from the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Elliot Bowen convincingly argues it was also a ‘local node with significant national impact’(p. 2). Hot Springs medical practitioners were until the mid-twentie…
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
Forum: The Environmental History of Energy Transitions
Accounts of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Personal Narratives across Two Centuries of North American Seismology
Argument The New Madrid earthquakes shook much of North America in the winter of 1811–1812. Accounts of the New Madrid earthquakes originally were collected and employed as scientific evidence in the early nineteenth century. These early accounts were largely ignored when scientific instruments promised more quantitative and exact knowledge. Years later the earthquakes themselves became both more important and less understood because of changes i…
Sacagawea's "Cold": Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
In June 1805, Sacagawea fell gravely ill along the Missouri River during the outward journey of the Corps of Discovery. Historical discussion of her illness has failed to take into account the context of travel literature and writing at the time—in particular, the conventions governing references to personal experience, descriptions of Native American life, and the language of women's bodies. When William Clark and Meriwether Lewis wrote in their…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Gender and the Economy of Health on the Santa Fe Trail
Correspondence surrounding the death from consumption of a New England woman on the Santa Fe Trail in 1857 demonstrates how gender roles and economic network influenced health travel and the search for healthy places in the nineteenth century United States. Women did travel seeking healing or relief from sickness - sometimes, as here, in arduous, overland trips - but in ways subtly different from male health seekers: family attachments, as well a…
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land
Gender and the Economy of Health on the Santa Fe Trail
Correspondence surrounding the death from consumption of a New England woman on the Santa Fe Trail in 1857 demonstrates how gender roles and economic network influenced health travel and the search for healthy places in the nineteenth century United States. Women did travel seeking healing or relief from sickness - sometimes, as here, in arduous, overland trips - but in ways subtly different from male health seekers: family attachments, as well a…
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
Sacagawea's "Cold": Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
In June 1805, Sacagawea fell gravely ill along the Missouri River during the outward journey of the Corps of Discovery. Historical discussion of her illness has failed to take into account the context of travel literature and writing at the time—in particular, the conventions governing references to personal experience, descriptions of Native American life, and the language of women's bodies. When William Clark and Meriwether Lewis wrote in their…
Accounts of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Personal Narratives across Two Centuries of North American Seismology
Argument The New Madrid earthquakes shook much of North America in the winter of 1811–1812. Accounts of the New Madrid earthquakes originally were collected and employed as scientific evidence in the early nineteenth century. These early accounts were largely ignored when scientific instruments promised more quantitative and exact knowledge. Years later the earthquakes themselves became both more important and less understood because of changes i…
Forum: The Environmental History of Energy Transitions
Reflections: Environmental History in the Era of Covid-19
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Spring, Arkansas, 1890-1940, Elliott Bowen
By the 1910s, concluded one public health report, ‘to the average layman, Hot Springs, Arkansas means VD, and VD means Hot Springs’(p. 2). Hot Springs is a pretty town in south-central Arkansas (USA), where hot and mineral-rich waters well out from the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Elliot Bowen convincingly argues it was also a ‘local node with significant national impact’(p. 2). Hot Springs medical practitioners were until the mid-twentie…
History of Science Society Distinguished Lecture: Boom: Why Historians of Science Need to Talk About Energy – and Shale
Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geology (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works)