Scot Mcfarlane

Biographic Data

ID	3977990
NAME	Scot Mcfarlane
GIVEN NAMES	Scot
FAMILY NAME	Mcfarlane
SIGNATURE	MCFARLANE S
AFFILIATIONS	Bowdoin College
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	5
TOTAL CITATIONS	1
WORKS AS AUTHOR	5
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

A New Deal for River People
Open AccessScot McfarlaneARTICLEModern American History2026
At the start of the twentieth century, a diverse group of Americans relied on rivers for their autonomy.Fifty years later, most of these communities had either disappeared or had their relationship with their waterway dramatically reshaped.River people obtained some subsistence and distance from a state that rarely represented their interests.Across the South, formerly enslaved people and their descendants squatted, sharecropped, or owned land in…
Changing the Subject in the School Wars
Open AccessNicholas Kryczka, Whitney E Barringer et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2025Cited by: 1
What on earth are our school children learning about US history?"At the turn of the 2020s, American pundits posed the question rhetorically-and then proceeded to answer it, without evidence, and in service of partisan tastes.On the one hand were progressive commentators who declared that the typical US history curriculum was a whitewashed fable that suppressed uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. 1 On the other were conservative activists…
Southern Rivers
Scot Mcfarlane, Hanford Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2025
Good Question
Open AccessWhitney E Barringer, Scot Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024
“Testing procedure and technique, P.S. 19.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. How can we ask our students questions about the past that begin to reveal the motives of historical actors, address the interplay of structure and agency, and investigate the collision of long-run continuities and sudden contingencies? Over the last t…
Water history in the time of Covid-19
Open AccessSeohyun Park, Scot Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEWater History2020References: 6

Water history in the time of Covid-19
Open AccessSeohyun Park, Scot Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEWater History2020References: 6
Good Question
Open AccessWhitney E Barringer, Scot Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review2024
“Testing procedure and technique, P.S. 19.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. How can we ask our students questions about the past that begin to reveal the motives of historical actors, address the interplay of structure and agency, and investigate the collision of long-run continuities and sudden contingencies? Over the last t…
Changing the Subject in the School Wars
Open AccessNicholas Kryczka, Whitney E Barringer et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly2025Cited by: 1
What on earth are our school children learning about US history?"At the turn of the 2020s, American pundits posed the question rhetorically-and then proceeded to answer it, without evidence, and in service of partisan tastes.On the one hand were progressive commentators who declared that the typical US history curriculum was a whitewashed fable that suppressed uncomfortable truths about slavery and race. 1 On the other were conservative activists…
Southern Rivers
Scot Mcfarlane, Hanford Mcfarlane et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental History2025
A New Deal for River People
Open AccessScot McfarlaneARTICLEModern American History2026
At the start of the twentieth century, a diverse group of Americans relied on rivers for their autonomy.Fifty years later, most of these communities had either disappeared or had their relationship with their waterway dramatically reshaped.River people obtained some subsistence and distance from a state that rarely represented their interests.Across the South, formerly enslaved people and their descendants squatted, sharecropped, or owned land in…