Readings in Environmental History

In the spirit of the OAH Magazine of History’s goal of sharing historical scholarship with classroom teachers at a variety of grade levels, I think it useful to provide a brief review of some of the environmental history readings that high school teachers have recommended as particularly accessible or interesting to their students (1). This is based on a very unscientific survey of about fifteen middle and high school teachers. Some of them responded to a note that I posted to the H-Environment email discussion list, while others participated in Patty Limerick's environmental history program at the Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar (2). All include environmental history in the courses they teach. And together, they represent a cross-section of American secondary education: large and small schools; public and private; urban and rural. Several texts stand out as sources for those teachers who wish to add an

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