Char Miller
History Department/
Urban Studies Program
Trinity University
San Antonio, Texas
78212-7200
210-999-7608
210-999-8334 FAX
fmiller@trinity.edu
The Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. (1981)
M.A. (1977)
Pitzer College B.A. (1975)
(Honors in History and
Political Studies)
Director, Urban Studies Trinity University, 2001-
Chair, History Department Trinity University, 1998-2004
Professor Trinity University, 1992-
Associate Professor Trinity University, 1986-92
Assistant Professor Trinity University, 1981-86
Visiting Assistant Professor University of Miami, 1980-81
HONORARY DISTINCTIONS:
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians,
2007-10
D. Honoris Causa (Humane Letters), Plymouth State University,
2005
Centennial Lecturer, USDA Forest Service, 2004-05
P. J. Roosevelt Lecturer, Theodore Roosevelt Association, 2004-05
Senior Fellow, Pinchot Institute for Conservation, 1997-
Contributing Writer, Texas Observer, 1997-
HONORS:
Teaching:
Piper Professor, Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation and State of Texas, 2002.
Dr. and Mrs. Z. T. Scott Faculty Fellowship, Trinity University, 1997
Outstanding Professor, Humanities & Arts Division, Trinity University, Mortar
Board, 1996-97
Outstanding Professor, Trinity University, 1986
Scholarly:
Editorial Board: Trinity University Press, 2002-06
Editorial Board, Environmental History, 2001-06
Associate Editor (History), Journal of Forestry, 2005-
Associate Editor, Environmental History, 1999-2001; 2006-
Editorial Board, Library of Texas series, 2006-
Editorial Board: Pacific Historical Review, 2002-
Board of Directors: Forest History Society, 2002-
Service:
USDA Forest Service, New Century of Service Annual Award, 2005
Biographical Citations:
Who’s Who in America
Who’s Who Among American Teachers
Contemporary Authors
Directory of American Scholars
Something About the Author
Books
Surging Waters: The 1921 Flood and the Reconstruction of San Antonio,
(Austin: University of Texas Press, under contract).
Ground Work: Conservation in American Environmental Culture, (Durham: Forest History Society, 2007).
Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land & Life in South Texas, (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2004). (Award: 2007 Citation, San Antonio Conservation Society).
Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2001; paperback, 2004). (Awards: 2003 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society; 2002 Independent Publishers Association Biography Prize; 2002 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography; ForeWord Magazine's Gold Award for Biography; Connecticut Center for the Book Biography Prize, 2002. Citations: Washington Book Publishers Design Award, (Jacket, 2nd Prize); Booklist's Pioneering Environmentalists Core List; Booklist's Top Ten Biographies of Social Activists; Academic Magazine's Core 1000 List)
The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America, (Washington, D.C.: The Society of American Foresters, 1999; second edition, 2004). With Rebecca Staebler. (Awards:: 2000 Society of National Association Publications "Excel Gold Award"; 2000 Washington Book Publishers Awards: "First Place" and "Second Place," for book design; 2000 APEX Award for Publication Excellence; 2000 Outstanding Forestry Book, The National Woodland Owners Association)
Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of An American Conservationist, The Pinchot Lecture Series, (Milford, PA: Grey Towers Press, 1993.)
Fathers and Sons: The Bingham Family and the American Mission, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982). In the series, American Civilization, edited by Allen F. Davis.
Cities in Nature: Urban Environments in the
American West, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, forthcoming).
Richard Harding
Davis: The West from a Car-Window,
Library of Texas series, (Dallas: DeGolyer Library and William
P. Clements
Center for Southwestern Studies, forthcoming).
Fifty Years of the Texas Observer, (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2004).
The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History, (New
York: Routledge, 2003).
(Awards: 2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; Pennsylvania
School Librarians Association Best Reference Titles 2003;
reviews).
On The Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio,
(cloth: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001;
paper: San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2005).
Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict,
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001).
Water and the Environment: Global Perspectives, (Detroit:
St. James Press/Gale Publications, 2001), with Mark Cioc and Kate Showers.
Water in the West: A High Country News Reader,
(Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000; 2nd printing, November 2002).
American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997).
Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997; 2nd printing, 2000), with Hal K. Rothman.
Urban Texas: Politics and Development, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990), with Heywood Sanders.
To Raise the Lord's Banner: Selected Correspondence of Hiram Bingham, (Toronto and New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988).
Missions and Missionaries in the Pacific, (Toronto and New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985).
Journal & Proceedings Editor
"Remembering Maury Maverick," Palo Alto Review, forthcoming.
“A Tale of Two Cities: Atlanta and San Antonio,” Proceedings of the 2005 Earl Lewis Symposium on Urban Affairs, (San Antonio: Trinity University Urban Studies program, 2006).
“A Century of American Forestry,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2005..
“The USDA Forest Service, 1905-2005” Journal of Forestry, July/August, 2005.
“The City: Past, Present, and Future,” Proceedings of the 2004 Earl M. Lewis Symposium on Urban Affairs, (San Antonio: Urban Studies Program, Trinity University, 2004).
"Forest History of Asia," Environmental History, Spring 2001.
"Celebrating 100 Years of Professional Forestry,"
Journal of Forestry, November 2000.
"The Pinchot Family," Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Spring, 1999.
Le Coup d’Oeil Forestier: Shifting Views of
Federal Forestry in America, 1870-1945,” in V. Alaric Sample, et al., eds.,
Sustainable Forest Management: The Divergence and Reconvergence of European
and American Forestry, (Durham: Forest History Society, forthcoming).
"Interview: Samuel P. Hays," Environmental History, July 2007,
p. (With Mark Cioc).
"Interview: Roderick Nash," Environmental History, April 2007,
p. 399-407 (With Mark Cioc).
"Interview: Hal K. Rothman," Environmental History, January
2007, p. 141-52 (With Mark Cioc).
“A Sylvan Prospect: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Twentieth-Century Conservationism,” in Michael Lewis, ed., American Wilderness, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 131-48.
“Landmark Decision: The Antiquities Act, Big-Stick
Conservation, and the Modern State,” in David Harmon, et al., eds.,
The Antiquities Act and the Foundations of American Conservation,
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006), p. 64-78;
chapter
republished in the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 27
(2), 2006, p. 5-14.
"Proving Ground: Richard Harding Davis in the American West," Southwest
Review, 90 (1), Summer 2005, p. 13-28 (received the 2005
McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction from the Southwest Review).
“Deep Roots: The Late Nineteenth Century Origins of American Forestry,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2005, p. 2-3.
“French Lessons: “F. P. Baker, American Forestry, and the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2005, p. 10-15.
“Amateur Hour: Nathaniel H. Egleston and the Forestry Movement in Post-Civil War America,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2005, p. 20-26
“At the Creation: The National Forest Commission of 1896-97,” Forest History Today, (Co-author), p. 20-26, Spring/Fall 2005, p. 32-41.
“With Friends Like These: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Drama of Environmental Politics,” in Sally Miller and Daryl Morrison, eds., John Muir: Friends, Family and Adventures, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005), p. 121-146; a different version of this appears as "Before the Divide: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot and the Early American Conservation Movement," 3rd Annual Pinchot Lecture, in Miller, Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of an American Conservationist (1993), p. 1-40.
"Past Forward," Journal of Forestry, July/August 2005, p. 215-17.
“A Transformative Place: Grey Towers and the Conservation Legacy of the Pinchot Family,” Journal of Forestry, July/August, 2005, p. 237-240.
"Running Dry: Water and Development in San Antonio," Journal of the West, Summer 2005, p. 44-50.
"Crisis Management: Challenge and Controversy in Forest Service History," Rangelands, June 2005, p. 14-18.
"'What, No Beer?': Pearl Brewery and the Building of San Antonio," South Texas Studies 2005, p. 28-47.
“Eminent Domain: B. L. Wiggins, Forestry, and the New South at Sewanee,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2004, p. 55-63.
"Green Screen: Projections of American Environmental Culture," in Martin
Melosi and Philip Scarpino, eds., Public History and the Environment,
(Chicago: Kreiger Publishers, 2004, p. 154-67.
"Tourist Traps: Visitors and the Modern San Antonio Economy," in Hal K.
Rothman, ed., The Culture of Tourism and the Tourism of Culture: Selling
the Past to the Present in the American Southwest, (University of New
Mexico Press, 2003), 206-228.
"Rough Terrain: Forest Management and its Discontents, 1891-2001," International Journal of Food, Agriculture, and Environment, 1 (1), January 2003, p. 135-38.
"Thinking Like a Conservationist," Journal of Forestry,
December 2002, p. 42-45.
"Where the Buffalo Roamed: Ranching, Agriculture and the Urban Marketplace,"
in Char Miller, ed., On the Border: An Environmental History of
San Antonio, (Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), p. 56-82.
"Parks, Politics, and Patronage," in Miller, ed., On the Border: An
Environmental History of San Antonio,
(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), p. 83-98 With Heywood
Sanders.
"An Open Field," Pacific Historical Review, February 2001, p.
69-76.
"A High-Grade Paper: Garden & Forest and the
Nineteenth-Century American Forestry Movement," Arnoldia,
Fall 2000, p. 19-22.
"The Pivotal Decade: American Forestry in the 1870s," Journal of
Forestry, November 2000, p. 6-10.
"Back to the Garden: The Redemptive Promise of Sustainable Forestry,"
Forest History Today, Spring 2000, p. 16-23.
"Chiefly
Politics: Contested Leadership in the USDA-Forest Service," The
Electronic Green Journal, Issue 12, Earth Day 2000.
"What Happened in the Rainier Grand’s Lobby? A Question of Sources" Journal of American History, March 2000, p. 1709-1714.
"The Greatest Good: A Photographic Essay," Journal of Forestry, January 2000, p. 37-41; republished in Forest History Today, Spring 2000, p. 31-36.
"Grazing Arizona: Public Land Management in the Southwest," Forest History Today, Fall 1999, p. 15-19.
"A Contested Past: Forestry Education in the United States, 1898-1998," Journal of Forestry, September 1999, p. 38-43. With James G. Lewis. A slightly revised version appeared in V. Alaric Sample, et. al., eds., The Evolution of Forestry Education in the United States: Adapting to the Changing Demands of Professional Forestry, (Washington, D.C.: The Pinchot Institute for Conservation, 2000), p. 5-12.
"All in the Family: The Pinchots of Milford," Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Spring, 1999, p. 117-142.
"Gifford Pinchot: A Life In Progress," Journal of Forestry, January, 1999, p. 27-32. With V. Alaric Sample.
"Tapping the Rockies: Resource Exploitation in the Intermountain West," in Hal K. Rothman, ed., Reopening of the West, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998), p. 168-182.
"A Cautionary Tale: Reflections on the Reinvention of the Forest Service," Journal of Forestry, January 1996, p. 6-11.
"Old Growth: A Reconstruction of Gifford Pinchot's Training of a Forester, 1914-1937," Forest & Conservation History, January 1994, p. 7-23.
"Sawdust Memories: Pinchot and the Making of Forest Service History," Journal of Forestry, February 1994, p. 8-12.
"Plagued-troubled Humanity: A Woman's Journey from Chernovitz to Israel," European Judaism, Autumn, 1993, p. 40-47.
"The Greening of Gifford Pinchot," in Environmental History Review, Fall 1992, p. 1-20; a different version appears in Miller, Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of an American Conservationist (1993), p. 43-82; and in The Atherton Lecture Series (Pitzer College, 1993), vol. 1, p. 54-78.
"Keeper of His Conscience? Pinchot, Roosevelt and the Politics of Conservation," in Natalie A. Naylor, Douglas Brinkely, and John A. Gable, eds., Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, (Interlaken, NY: Hofstra University and Heart of the Lake Publishing, 1992), p. 231-244.
"Rocking the Cradle: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of American Forestry," in Robert Thatcher and Thomas McLintock, eds., 100 Years of Forestry, (Bethesda: Society of American Foresters, 1992), p. 69-76.
"Wooden Politics: Bernhard Fernow and the Quest for a National Forest Policy, 1876-1898," in Harold K. Steen, ed., The Origins of the National Forests, (Durham: Forest History Society, 1992), p. 287-301.
"Text in Context: The Journal of an early 19th century American Missionary," Yale University Library Gazette, October 1991, p. 47-63.
"Sunbelt Texas," in Robert Calvert and Walter Buenger, eds., Texas Through Time: Evolving Interpretations, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991), p. p.279-309.
"The Prussians are Coming! The Prussians are Coming! Bernhard Fernow and the Origins of the USDA Forest Service," Journal of Forestry, March 1991, p. 23-27; 42.
"Olmos Park and the Creation of a Suburban Bastion," in Miller and Sanders, Urban Texas: Politics and Development, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990), p.113-127. (Co-author).
"The Rise of Urban Texas," in Miller and Sanders, eds., Urban Texas: Politics and Development, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990), p. 3-29. (Co-author).
"Rumors and the Language of Social Change in Early 19th Century Hawaii," Pacific Studies, July 1989, p. 1-28.
""Francis Makemie: Social Development and the Colonial Chesapeake," Journal of Presbyterian History, Winter 1985, p. 333-340.
"The Mississippi Project Remembered," Journal of Mississippi History, Winter 1985, p. 284-307.
"Domesticity Abroad: Work and Family in the Sandwich Island Mission, 1820-1840," in Miller, ed., Missions and Missionaries in the Pacific, (Toronto and New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985), p. 65-90.
"Gentle Outside Agitator: Stephen Bingham and the Mississippi Summer Project," South Atlantic Quarterly, Summer 1982, p. 300-310.
"The World Creeps In: Hiram Bingham III and the Decline of Missionary Fervor," Hawaiian Journal of History, 15, 1981, p. 80-99.
"The Scientific Career of James Eights: An Annotated Bibliography," Skenectada: Journal of the American Pine Barren Society, 2, 1980, p. 10-16.
"Teach Me O My God': The Journal of Hiram Bingham," Vermont History, Fall 1980, p. 225-235.
"James Eights: New Evidence," New York History, January 1980, p. 23-42. (Co-author).
"The Making of a Missionary: Hiram Bingham's Odyssey," Hawaiian Journal of History, 13, 1979, p. 36-45.
"A Temperate Note on 'Holy and Unholy Spirits," Journal of Pacific History, 14 (3-4), 1979, p. 320-322.
"Puritan, Yankee and Father: An Intellectual Portrait of Elizur Wright," Bulletin Connecticut Historical Society, October 1979, p. 117-128.
Essays & Commentary
"Because of power vacuum, 'Giant of Africa' running on empty," San
Antonio Express News, August 19, 2007, p.
"El poder de las aquas," Rumbo - San Antonio, 27 de Julio de
2007, p. 2.
"Radle: legado y successor," Rumbo - San Antonio, 8 Junio de
1007, p.2.
"Reclaiming the Best Laid Plans: San Antonio's heritage can guide the
sprawling metropolis back to urban wholeness," Preservation Architect,
June 2007;
http://www.aia.org/hrc_default/hrc2_template.cfm?pagename=hrc%5Fa%5FSanAntonio
"Bexar County Chief Justice Joseph Baker, 1804-1846," Journal of the
Life and Culture of San Antonio, June 2007;
http://www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/ChiefJusticeBaker.html (With Melinda
Parshall '06).
"A Clean Well-Lighted Place," Environmental History, April 2007,
p. 341-42.
"George W. Brackenridge: the man whom water made rich," River Reach,
Spring 2007, p. 4-5.
"Earthly Emancipator": Harriet Tumban: Imagining a Life, by Beverly
Lowry, Texas Observer, August 10, 2007, p. 29-31.
“Hot Tips: Summer Reading,’ San Antonio Express-News, May 27, p.
7J
“On a Human Scale,” introduction to Joseph P. Riley, Creating the City
Beautiful, (Urban Studies Program, Trinity University, 2007), p. 4-5.
"Alcalde: un claro mandato," Rumbo - San Antonio, 24 de mayo de 2007, p. 2.
"El éxito del alcalde," Rumbo - San Antonio, 17 de mayo de 2007, p. 2.
"Today, Lake Chad, tomorrow Lagos?" The Guardian (Nigeria), May 4, 2007; revised versions appeared in the Waterloo Record (Canada), June 5, 2007 and the San Antonio Express-News, May 20, 2007, p. 1, 6H.
“$550 millones apenas son un pañito de aqua tibia…” Rumbo-San Antonio, 23 de marzo de 2007, p. 8.
“Alleviating water pressure in a drought city,” Headwaters News, March 22, 2007.
“Un proyecto carrerero del que no fluye información,” Rumbo-San Antonio, 9 de marzo de 2007, p. 9.
“Remembering the Life Force of Hal Rothman,” New West, Feb. 27 2007
"Holy Moses! Who's Watching the Water?" San Antonio Express-News, February 8, 2007, p. 9B.
"Proteger acuífero, lección de Helotes," Rumbo-San Antonio, 2 de febrero de 2007, p. 12.
“Paradigms Lost & Found,” Headwaters News, December 20, 2006.
“Gana el sur de Texas,” Rumbo-San Antonio, 15 de diciembre 2006, p. 4.
"Peace Out," Headwatersnews.org, December 12, 2006.
“El futuro esta en el pasado,” Rumbo-San Antonio, 20 de noviembre de 2006, p. 4.
“Sight Lines,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, posted online in concert with the exhibit, The Modern West: American Landscapes 1890-1950
“¿Cómo ganaría Ciro?” Rumbo-San Antonio, Lunes 13 de noviembre 2006, p. 4
“Por que San Antonio?” Rumbo-San Antonio, Lunes 23 de octubre, 2006, p. 4
"Our History Flows Like a Might Spring,” San Antonio Current, October 17, 2006, p. 11.
“Barrios cerrados, riesgo,” Rumbo-San Antonio, 2 de octubre de 2006, p. 3
"Alcade, un raro poltíco," Rumbo-San Antonio, 25 de septiembre 2006, p. 3.
“The Cleanest NRG of All,” San Antonio Current, September 13-19, 2006, p. 10-11.
“No a la nueva autopista,” Rumbo-San Antonio, 8 de septiembre, p. 4.
“Getting to Green: Trees,
Sprawl, and Politics in
San Antonio,”
Newsletter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, August-October, 2006,
p. 12-13.
"Reclaiming
the Garden of Eden," San Antonio Current, August 23, 2006, p. 63.
“Nuevo centro para SA,” Rumbo-San
Antonio, Lunes 14 de agosto de 2006, p. 3.
“A City Without Parks is Like a House Without Windows,” San Antonio Conservation Society Journal, Summer 2006, p. 4..
"As
France Dries Up, a Town in Texas Could Help," International Herald
Tribune, August 5, 2006, p. 4.
“Alerta por vías de peaje,” Rumbo-San Antonio, Lunes 31 de Julio
de 2006, p. 3.
“Parques para la
gente,” Rumbo-San Antonio, Lunes 17 de Julio de 2006, p. 3.
“Checked
Out,” San Antonio Current, July 5, 2006, p. 63
“The Roots of Forestry: Forest
Devastation Report (1919),” Journal of Forestry, June 2006, p.
220.
"Impulse Environmentalist," San Antonio Express-News,
June 25, 2006, p. 6H.
"Street Talk," Proceedings of the 2005 Earl M. Lewis Symposium on Urban
Affairs, (San Antonio: Trinity University Urban Studies Program, 2006), p.
6-16.
“Liquidation Sale,” Forest Magazine,
Summer 2006, p. 14-19.
“Dynamic Democracy in the Woods: A Reflection,” in National Forest Foundation 2005 Annual Report, p. 5.
“Buyer’s Remorse,” Vignettes (AIA-San Antonio), May 2006, p. 6.
“Cal Thomas Gets Lost in Translation,” Online Journal, Feb. 24, 2006.
“Roots of Forestry: Aldo Leopold,” Journal of Forestry, January-February 2006, p. 51.
“Stop the Bulldozers,” San Antonio Current, Feb. 22, 2006, p. 63.
“These Lands Are Our Lands,” Barstow Desert Dispatch, Feb. 17, 2006, p. A4.
“An Urban Eden,” Palo Alto Review, Fall 2005, p. 26-27.
“Foreword,” to James G. Lewis, The Forest Service and the Greatest Good, (Durham: Forest History Society, 2005), p. ix-xi.
“Too Busy to Hate,” foreword to Walter Huntley, Jr. and Pearl Cleage, “Livin’ for the City; the Jackson Years: An Oral History Duet,” (San Antonio: Trinity University Urban Studies Program, 2005), p. 4-8.
"A Very Long Engagement," Pitzer Participant, Spring 2005, p. 22.
"Liquid Assets," Forest Magazine, Summer 2005, p. 14-15.
“Capital News: Defining the Future of the National Forests,” Pinchot Letter, Spring 2005, p. p.17-18; reprinted in Julian (CA) News, July 20, 2005, p. 3.
“John Allen Gable (1943-2005),” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 36:3, p. 17-18
“The Emperor’s New Clothes,” San Antonio Current, April 20-27, p. 135
"In Good Company," Trinity University Alumnet, March 2, 2005.
"Leader of the Pack: Gifford Pinchot, Agency Watchdog," Forest
Magazine, Winter 2005, p. 16-19.
"Change Agent: Bob Marshall," Forest Magazine, Winter
2005, p. 20-21.
"Militant Forester: Raphael Zon," Forest Magazine, Winter 2005, p. 22-23.
"Restoration Surgery," Pinchot Letter, Fall 2004, p. 20-21.
“Charles S. Sargent: A Man for all Forests,” Backroads Observer, November-December 2004, p. 8A.
“F. P. Baker: An Early Activist for Forestry,” Backroads Observer, October 2004, p. 8A
"Firing Young Imaginations," San Antonio Express-News, November 11, 2004, p. 6J.
"How Forestry Got its Start," Mosaic, Fall 2004, p. 4-5; an earlier version appeared in Backroads Observer, August 2004, p. A7.
"On the Horizon: The Environmental Dilemmas Before Us," Proceedings of the 2004 Earl Lewis Symposium on Urban Affairs, p. 119-128.
"City Beat," Proceedings of the 2004 Earl Lewis Symposium on Urban Affairs, p. 4-9.
"President Attacks America's Forests," San Antonio Express-News, July 27, 2004, p. 6H.
"Foreword" to I. Waynne Cox, The Spanish Acequia of San Antonio, (San Antonio: Maverick Publishing, 2004), p. vii-x.
"History's Fiction," Journal of the West, Spring 2004, p. 3-4.
“Changes in the Landscape: Growth, Development, and Politics in San Antonio, 1730-2003,” in Proceedings of 2003 National Urban Forest Conference, p. 82-84. Co-author.
"Gifford Pinchot: A Politician's Nature," Northern Woodlands, Winter 2003, p. 40-43
"The Holy Grail," San Antonio Current, October 23-30, 2003, p. 5
“The Machine in the Garden,” The Pinchot Letter, Fall 2003, p. 9-11.
"Regeneration," Palo Alto
Review, Spring 2003, p. 16-18.
"Tree Houses," Environmental History,
April 2003, p. 312-15.
"Access Denied," San Antonio Current, February 20-26, 2003, p. 7-8.
"Urban windows: a foreword," to Lewis F. Fisher, San Antonio's Historic Plazas, Parks, River Walk (San Antonio: Maverick Publishing Inc., 2002), p. vii-viii.
"Where Has All the Water Gone?," San Antonio Current, December 19-25, 2002, p. 10-11.
"Wash Out," San Antonio Current, November 7-13, 2002, p. 6-7.
"Jungle Fever," San Antonio Current, October 24-30, 2002, p. 63.
"Rio Grande Blues," San Antonio Current, August 1-8, 2002, p. 6, 8.
"Ankle Deep in Water Debt," San Antonio Current, July 25-31, 2002, p. 6, 8.
"Grazing Rules: A View of the Bandera Hill Country," The Bandera County Historian, Summer 2002, p. 3-5.
"Pricey Mexican sculpture arousing animosity in San Antonio," Mexico City News, June 29, 2002.
"Breathe
Uneasy," San Antonio Current, June 27 - July 3, 2002, p.
6-7.
"We need a new U.S.-Mexico water treaty," Mexico City
News, June 15, 2002.
"Forest debate rooted in political cycle," Duluth News Tribune, June 10, 2002, p.
"McCain should heed Roosevelt's example," San Antonio Express-News, June 1, 2002, p. 11B.
"Atlanta, look west for water guidance," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 30, 2002, p. 22A.
"Rockets' Red Glare, Mirage 2002, p. 59.
"Breaking
New Ground," Exeter Bulletin, Spring 2002, p. 20-23; 86-87.
"Setting the Record Straight: Or How Mary Pinchot Tamed a Rough Rider,"
The Pinchot Letter, Winter 2001/02, p. 22-23.
"A Young Stand," Forest Magazine, Winter 2002, p. 34-40.
"Pleasures of Disorientation," Trinity Magazine, Fall 2001, p. 45.
"Cutting-Edge Conservationists," Milford Magazine, November,
2001, p. 24.
"Historian
says Gifford Pinchot would stay out of Alaskan wildlife refuge,"
High Country News, November 14, 2001.
"Cry
Havoc," Pitzer Participant, Fall 2001, p. 33.
"Homeward Bound," The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2001, p. 9.
"Back to the Future in San Antonio," Urban Ecology, Fall 2001,
p. 25-30; a shorter version appeared as "Best
Laid Plans: How San Antonio Grew, and Why," Texas Observer,
July 20, 2001, p. 19-21.
"What's Wrong with the Older Generation?" Talking History, (radio commentary: http://cuwebradio.creighton.edu/history/arch2001.htm), November 19, 2001.
"Emissions
plan a solid start to lifting San Antonio's haze," San Antonio
Express-News, August 13, 2001, p. 5B.
"Talking About My Generation," Chronicle of Higher Education,
June 15, 2001, p. 15B.
"Sustainable Forestry on Tribal Lands," The Pinchot Letter,
Winter 2001, p. 8-11. With V. Alaric Sample.
"Playing Games," Palo Alto Review, Fall 2000, p. 40-41.
"Shell
Game," Texas Observer, December 8, 2000, p. 21-23.
"California Days," A Synagogue for These Times, (Toronto: Holy
Blossom Temple, 2000), p. 38-39.
"Of Politics and Chiefs," The Pinchot Letter, Fall 2000, p.
11-13.
"Inflaming
passions won't stop forest fires," San Antonio Express-News,
August 28, 2000, p. 5B.
"Tourism, Inc," San Antonio Current,
April 27-May 3, 2000, p. 8-11.
"TNRCC's failed environmental promises, Corpus Christi
Caller-Times, March 24, 2000, p. 11.
"Water,
money, power flows to agriculture," San Antonio Express-News,
March 10, 2000, p. 5B.
"Austria's Nazi Rhapsody," The Jewish Journal,
March 2000, p. 2.
"It's the environment, stupid," The Trinitonian, March 1,
2000, p. 11.
"Dome on the Rocks," Pitzer Participant, Spring 1999, p. 37.
"An American Insurgent," Texas Observer, February 19, 1999, p. 38-39.
"Auto Biography," Trinity Magazine, Winter 1998, p. 10-13, 23.
"Peer Review: A Memoir," Palo Alto Review, Fall 1998, p. 22-26.
"Building San Antonio: A Critical Look," Catherine H. Powell Memorial Symposium Proceedings, Fall 1998, p. 7-16.
"Gifford Pinchot and the Spirit of Conservationism," co-author, an introduction to Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground, fourth edition, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1998).
"Students Must Find Voices of Their Own," The Trinitonian, August, 28, 1998, p. 13.
"From the Ashes of Mount Carmel," Texas Observer, June 5, 1998, p. 30-31.
"Future Water Use Requires Regulation," San Antonio Express-News, May 20, 1998, p. 5B.
"Pompous Circumstance," Texas Observer, January 16, 1998, p.30-31.
"Water Torture," The San Antonio Current, July 24-30, 1997, p. 10-13.
"Slumming: San Antonio's Legacy of Shame," Texas Observer, April 11, 1997, p. 8-12; a different version appears in The San Antonio Current, May 8-14, 1997, p. 10-13
"Let My People Go," The Jewish Journal, April 1997, p. 23.
"Flood of Memories," Texas Observer, September 27, 1996, p. 16-17.
"Blown Away, Vineyard Gazette, August 6, 1996, p. 6.
"Concrete Ends," Texas Observer, August 16, 1996, p. 23; republished in the San Antonio Current, June 12-18, 1997, p. 7.
"Urban Legends," Jewish Journal, August 1996, p. 4.
"Did the Forest Congress Break the Logjam?" The Pinchot Letter, Spring 1996, p. 5-6.
"Apocalypse, Now?" Jewish Journal, March 1996, p. 2, 30.
"Jerusalem's Problems Will Continue," San Antonio Express News, January 31, 1996, p. 5B.
"Carriage Trade," Texas Observer, January 12, 1996, p. 23.
"Poormouthing Poor Richard: Ben Franklin was No Anti-Semite," The Jewish Journal, December 1995, p. 13; New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, January 7, 1996, p. 4A.
"Historic building not victim of commission," San Antonio Express-News, December 10, 1995, p. 6L.
"How the West Was Won," In These Times, August 7, 1995, p. 40, 39; a different version appeared as "Agency leaders need to come out swinging," in High Country News, November 27, 1995, p. 16.
"For the Birds," Texas Observer, July 28, 1995, p. 21.
"Eye Contact: Almost Meeting Jackie," Vineyard Gazette, June 30, 1995, 11A.
"Home Boy," Vineyard Gazette, May 12, 1995, p. 4B.
"Remembering Joanna," Centenary Today, Spring/Summer 1995, p. 17; a different version appeared in The Jewish Journal, November 1994, p. 10-11.
"Down in Flames," In These Times, October 17, 1994, p. 40, 39.
"Crossing over to Freedom," San Antonio Express-News, September 10, 1994, p. 7C; Jewish Journal, October 1994, p. 15.
"Wet Dreams," Texas Observer, September 2, 1994, p. 23; "Splash Zone," replies, September 30, 1994, p. 1, 7.
"White Noise," Jewish Journal, September 1994, p. 13.
"We Shall Not Be Moved," Jewish Journal, August 1994, p. 7.
"On the Beach," The Texas Observer, July 22, 1994, p. 22; other versions appear in The Participant, Summer 1994, p. 3 and Jewish Journal, May 1994, p. 4.
"Like a Consuming Fire," Jewish Journal, April 1994, p. 4.
"I Lift My Lamp," Jewish Journal, March 1994, p. 7.
"Shifting Sands," Jewish Journal, February 1994, p. 17.
"'Never Again' Fails in Bosnia," San Antonio Express-News, December 16, 1993, p. 8D; an extended version appears as "Mouse Trap," The Jewish Journal, January 1993, p. 8.
"Run Silent, Run Deep," The Jewish Journal, December 1993, p. 19, 23.
"Secret Lives," Jewish Journal, November 1993, p. 11.
"A Farewell to Arms," The Jewish Journal, Ocotber 1993, p. 14.
"Abraham's Lot," The Jewish Journal, October 1993, p. 22.
"Lerner's Curve," The Jewish Journal, September 1993, p. 14.
"Recovering Rahav," The Jewish Journal, August 1993, p. 30-31.
"Republican Sheik," Texas Observer, 2 July 1993, p. 9; a different version appeared as "Last Laugh: Remembering John Connally," The Jewish Journal, August 1993, p. 9.
"Edifice Complex," Texas Observer, 18 June 1993, p. 23.
"Hat Trick," In These Times, May 31, 1993, p. 40, 39.
"16 Words that Shook the World," The Jewish Journal, April 1993, p. 32-33.
"Pretty Parks not a Good Sell," San Antonio-Express-News, 16 March 1993, p. 13A
"Joseph, Jefferson & the Jews," The Jewish Journal, March 1993, p. 19, 22.
"God Forbid," In These Times, Feb. 8-21, 1993, p. 40, 39; different versions appear as "For Heaven's Sake!," The Jewish Journal, Feb. 1993, p. 23; "School Prayer View Illogical, Simplistic," San Antonio Express-News, January 3, 1993, p. 12H.
"Gifford Pinchot: Still Relevant Today," Forest Perspectives, Autumn, 1992, p. 21-2.
"Tangled Roots: Sukkot, Thanksgiving and American Jewish Identity," The Jewish Journal, November 1992, p. 20.
"Father Knows Less," The Participant, Fall 1992, p. 29-31; a different version appeared in In These Times, 11-18 September 1991, p. 18.
"The Mower, the Merrier," In These Times, September 2-15, 1992, p. 18.
"Green Card," Wild America, Fall 1992, p. 1.
"Odd Bedfellows: Korach, Moses & Perot," The Jewish Journal, September 1992, p. 27.
"Gore can turn pages of history against Bush," San Antonio Light, August 2, 1992, p. E1, 4.
"History 378A: American Environmental History," Environmental History Review, Special Curriculum issue, Spring 1992, p. 47-50.
"A Vote of Conscience," Texas Observer, April 10, 1992, p 23.
"Pulp Fiction," In These Times, 20-26 November 1991, p. 18.
"Civics Lesson," Texas Observer, 15 November 1991, 23.
"A Lovely Tent," Sh'ma, 15 November, 1991, p. 4-5.
"Impeachment call raises issues of life and death," In These Times, 29 February-19 March 1991, p. 11.
"Environmental President cools his heels," In These Times, February 6-12, 1991, p. 17; a revised version appeared as "George is No Teddy" in The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1991, p. 4-5.
"Night Flight," Texas Observer, 25 January 1991, p. 22-23; an extended version appears as "Plane Thinking about war and the dangerous flight from reality," in In These Times, January 23-28, 1991, p. 18.
"Hot Air Settles Over Texas," In These Times, December 26, 1990-January 15, 1991, p. 24, 22.
"Columnist Myopic on Israel," San Antonio Express-News, 16 December 1990, p. 4L.
"Truth Casualty of Crisis in Gulf," San Antonio Express-News, 22 September 1990, p. 6B.
"Bush is Following a Dated Environmental Policy," San Antonio Light, 26 June 1990, p. B7.
"Can Rhetoric Save us from Pollution?," San Antonio Light, 11 February 1990, L1.
"Moshe: What's in a Name?," Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, April 1989, p. 85-87.
"It's Time to Invest in People," San Antonio Express-News, 18 January 1989, p. 11A.
"Israel Facing Painful Choice," San Antonio Express-News, 20 December 1988, p. 14A. (Co-author).
"What Next When City Politics and Funding Priorities Collide?," San Antonio Light, 11 September 1988, p. F3.
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: Reflection in American Culture," Trinity Magazine, Fall 1987, p. 15-17.
"Rip Van Winkle Challenges the 80s," Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1986.
Pacific History: Will It Play in San Antonio?," Pacific History Association Newsletter, March 1982, p. 12-13.
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Reviews
Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town, by Paul H. Carlson,
Journal of Southern History
New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, by J. Mark Souther, Journal of American History, June 2007, p. 323-34.
“Conservation and Environment: Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress,” website review, Journal of American History,
Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform, by Finis Dunaway, Pacific Historical Review, May 2007, p. 288-290..
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, by Robert Dallek, San Antonio Express-News, June 3, p.
“Nature’s Agency”: The Forest Service: Fighting for Public Lands, by Gerald W. Williams, Journal of Forestry, April/May 2007, p. 151-52.
Ranching, Endangered Species, and Urbanization in the Southwest: Species of Capital, by Nathan F. Sayre, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Spring 2007, p. 100-102.
“Prodigal Flame”: Drift Smoke: Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire, by David J. Strohmaier, Journal of Forestry, March 2007, p. 100-101.
“Green Dream”: Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest, by Joan Maloof, Journal of Forestry, March 2007, p. 101.
“Corps Failure”: The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina—the Inside Story From One Louisiana Scientist, by Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan, Texas Observer, January 26, 2007, p. 28-29.
“Sturdy Guardian of the Door”: Oak: The Frame of Civilization, by William Bryant Logan, Journal of Forestry, October/November 2006, p. 390.
“True Grit”: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, By Timothy Egan, Texas Observer, November 17, 2006, p.
“A privileged education”: The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Daniel Golden, San Antonio Express-News, November 11, 2006, p. 10J.
Road, River, and Ol’Boy Politics: A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb, by Linda Scarborough, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, October 2006, p. 314-16.
“Mountain Man”: Toiyabe Patrol: Five U. S. Forest Service Summers, by Les Joslin, Journal of Forestry, September 2006, p. 335.
“Sunken Treasure”: The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism, by Robert W. Richter, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, July 2006, p. 299-301.
“Katrina’s
Aftershocks”: The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina,
New
Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast,
by Douglas Brinkley and Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near
Death of a Great American City, by Jed Horne, San Antonio
Express-News, August 27, p. 10J.
“Half Empty”:
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First
Century, by Fred Pearce,
Texas Observer,
July 14, p. 28-29.
“Texas Terroir”: Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, edited by David Taylor, Texas Observer
The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter, San Antonio Express-News
Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid, by Joe Klein, San Antonio Express-News,
“Harvesting History”: Timber: A Photographic History of Mississippi Forestry, by James E, Fickle, Journal of Forestry, April-May, 2006, p. 163.
“This Tangled Ground”: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed, by John Vaillant, Journal of Forestry, April/May, 2006, p. 162.
Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, by Stephen Kinzer, San Antonio Express-News, April 6, 2006, p. 10J.
Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti, by Michael Deibert, San Antonio Express-News, Feb 19, 2006, p. J11.
“A Brighter Shade of Green”: Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement, Robert Gottleib, Texas Observer, Feb. 10, 2006, p. 26-28.
“Clear-cut Decisions”: Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, by Michael Williams, Journal of Forestry, January-February, 2006, p. 50.
“Sweet Scholarly Revenge”: Mirror to America by John Hope Franklin, Texas Observer, January 27, 2006, p. 26-28.
Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio, by Thomas S. Bremer, Journal of American History, December 2005, p. 1025-26.
“All We Had Was Nuisance Power,” Saving the Big Thicket: From Exploration to Preservation, 1685-2003, James J. Cozine, Jr., Texas Observer, October 21, 2005, p. 18-20.
Henry Adams and the Making of America, by Garry Wills, San Antonio Express-News, November 6, 2005, p. 6J.
“A Stormy History,” San Antonio Express-News, September 25, 2005, p. 7J.
“No Relief,” An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature, by Craig E. Colten, Texas Observer, September 23, 2005, p. 24-25.
"Trauma Centers": The Resilient City, L. J. Vale and T. J. Campanella, eds., Texas Observer, July 8, 2005, p. 28-29.
“Say it Ain’t So”: Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park, by Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey, Journal of Forestry, June 2005, p. 196.
"Wide-angle Lens": When the Grass Stood Stirrup-high, by David Bradford, et al., Journal of Forestry, June 2005, p. 196-97.
Faith in Nature: Environmentalism as Religious Quest, by Thomas R. Dunlap, American Historical Review, June 2005, p. 830.
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America, by Nick Kotz, San Antonio Express-News, January 23, 2005, p. 7J.
Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Steven Mintz, San Antonio Express-News, January 16, 2005, p. 6J.
“Paved
Paradise”: A Field Guide to Sprawl, by Dolores Hayden,
Texas Observer, November 5, 2004, p. 26-27.
Pols: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan,
edited by Jack Beatty, San Antonio Express-News, October 24,
2004, p. 6J.
The Hammer. Tom DeLay: God, Money and the Rise of the Republican Party, by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid, San Antonio Express-News, September 12, 2004, p. 7J.
"Lord, We're Just Trying to Save Your Water: Environmental Activism and Dissent in the Appalachian South, by Suzanne Marshall, Journal of Southern History, August 2004, p. 726-28.
“Shout Out”: The Life and Times of Willie Velásquez: Su Voto Es Su Voz, by Juan Sepúlveda, Texas Observer, July 31, 2004, p. 22-23; 30.
Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans, Lewis L. Gould, San Antonio Express-News, July 11, 2004, p. 7J.
“You Don’t Know Jack,” The Diaries of a Forest Service Chief, Jack Ward Thomas. Edited by Harold K. Steen, Journal of Forestry, July/August 2004, p. 56, 58.
"Living Large": Toward the Livable City, edited by Emilie Buchwald, Texas Observer, June 4, 2004, p. 28-29.
Cronies: Oil, The Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, by Robert Bryce, San Antonio Express-News, May 23, 2004, p. 6J..
“Nightmare on Elm Street”: Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm, by Thomas J. Campanella, Journal of Forestry, April/May 2004, p. 58.
"Native Grounds": The Natural West, by Dan Flores, Texas Observer, April 9, 2004, p. 26-27
“Speaking to the World”: Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement, by Daniel J. Philippon, Journal of Forestry, March 2004, p. 54-55.
"Rear Window": The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, John Lewis Gaddis, Texas Observer, February 27, 2004, p. 26-27.
Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast, by Robert Van Pelt, Journal of the West, Winter 2004, p 92.
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation, by Karl Jacoby, Nevada State Historical Quarterly, Fall 2003, p. 215-17.
“Seeing Things Whole”: Forest and Garden: Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897-1949, by Melanie L. Simo, Journal of Forestry, October/November 2003, p. 54-55.
"Marching Orders": San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals, by Judith Berg Sobre, Texas Observer, September 12, 2003, p. 22-23.
Wildfire: A Reader, edited by Alianor True, Journal of the West, Summer 2003, p. 94.
"Trail Blazer": Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the Appalachian Trail, by Larry Anderson, Journal of Forestry, June 2003, p. 71; a shorter version appeared in Northern Woodlands, Autumn 2003, p. 65, 67..
"Bower to the People": The People's Forests, by Bob Marshall, OnEarth, Spring 2003, p. 37-39.
"Wrong Way": The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate, by Oliver Gilliam, Texas Observer, January 17, 2003, p. 14-15.
Nature's Army: When Soldiers Fought for Yosemite, by Harvey Meyerson, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Winter 2002, p. 91-93.
Methods and Approaches in Forest History, edited by M.
Agnolettti and S. Anderson, Agricultural and Forest Meterology,
December 2002, p. 124-25.
Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation
Library, by Andrew G. Kirk, Journal of American History,
December 2002, p. 1123-24.
The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, a History,
by Norris Hundley, Jr., Pacific Historical Review,
August 2002, p. 499-500.
"Road
Rage": Driven Wild: How the Fight Against the Automobile Launched
the Modern Wilderness Movement, by Paul Sutter, Texas Observer,
August 2, 2002, p. 12-13, 22.
Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm,
edited by Casey Edward Greene and Shelley Henley Kelly, and
Galveston and the 1900 Storm, by Patricia Bellis Bixel and
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Journal of Southern History,
May 2002, p. 485-7.
Restoring Nature: Perspectives from the Social Sciences and
Humanities, edited by Paul H. Gobster and R. Bruce Hull,
Restoration Ecology, March 2002, p. 169-70.
"Evils
We Know Not Of": Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White
House Tapes, 1964-1965, edited by Michael Beschloss, Texas
Observer, January 18, 2002, p. 12-13; 35.
Nothing But Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign
Missions, by Paul William Harris, American Historical Review,
December 2001, p. 1797-98.
"Urban
Bright": Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival,
by Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio, Texas Observer, November
23, 2001, p. 20-21.
"The Man Who Knew So Much": George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of
Conservation, by David Lowenthal, Journal of Forestry,
August 2001, p. 41.
Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas, by
William H. Wilson, Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
July 2001, p. 177-78.
The Cast Iron Forest: A Natural and Cultural History of the North
American Cross Timbers, by Richard Francavilgia,
Environmental History, July 2001, p. 486-87.
"Unchained
Memories": Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their
Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, edited by Ira
Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, Texas Observer, July
6, 2001, p. 18-19.
"Where's Aldo?": For the Health of the Land, by Aldo
Leopold; edited by J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle, Journal of
Forestry, June 2001, p. 59-60.
"Location, Location, Location": Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: A Reader in Environmental History, Paul D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt, eds., Journal of Forestry, April 2001, p. 44.
Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape’s Legacy, by
John Warfield Simpson; Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental
History, edited by John P. Herron and Andrew G. Kirk; Women and
Nature: Saving the "Wild" West, by Glenda Riley, Journal of
American History, December 2000, p. 1094-97.
"Well-Groomed Lands": The
Southern Forest: Geography, Ecology, by Laurence C. Walker and
Brian P. Oswald, Journal of Forestry, December
2000, p. 35.
"A Picture-Perfect Forest": New England Forests Through Time,
by David R. Foster and John F. O'Keefe, Journal of Forestry,
November 2000, p. 56.
"Lone Rangers": "I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again," Hal K. Rothman, ed. and Walt Perry: An Early-Day Forest Ranger in New Mexico and Oregon, Les Joslin, ed., Journal of Forestry, November 2000, p. 55.
"Red Woods": Co-Operative Dreams: A History of the Kaweah Colony,
by Jay O'Connell, Journal of Forestry, November 2000, p. 55-56.
"Cloud
Cover": Learning to Glow: A Nuclear Reader, John
Bradley, editor, Texas Observer, June 23, 2000, p.
24-25.
"Glowing
Reports": Undue Risks: Secret State Experiments on Humans,
Jonathan Moreno; and The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical
Experiments in the Cold War, Eileen Welsome, Texas
Observer, June 9, 2000, p. 24-25.
"Landmark Decisions": History in Urban Places: The Historic Districts of the United States, by David Hamer, Texas Observer, March 31, 2000, p. 33-34.
"Past Remembering": Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, by James W. Loewen, Texas Observer, December 24, 1999, p. 19-21.
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation, by Richard A. Rajala, Journal of American History, June 1999, p. 623-34.
"Anchor, Away!": The Greatest Generation, by Tom Brokaw, Texas Observer, June 11, 1999, p. 27-28.
"Water Works": Tapped Out: The Coming World Crisis in Water and What We Can Do About It, by Paul Simon, Texas Observer, April 2, 1999, p. 32-33.
"There Was Something About Mary": A Very Private Woman, by Nina Burleigh, Texas Observer, March 5, 1999, p. 28-29.
A Word for Nature: Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913, by Robert L. Dorman, Environmental History, January 1999, p. 107-8.
"Pipe Dreams": Water in the West, in Texas Observer, November 20, 1998, p. 24-26.
"Dress Code": Dressing Up Debutantes: Pageantry and Glitz in Texas, by Michaele Thurgood Haynes, Texas Observer, October 9. 1998, p. 23-25.
"The Sylvan Mirror": Stepping Back to Look Forward: A History of the Massachusetts Forest, Charles H.W. Foster, editor, Journal of Forestry, September 1998, p. 43.
"Holding On": The Zinn Reader, by Howard Zinn, Texas Observer, July 31, 1998, p. 17-18.
"Not Guilty": The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis, by William D. Rubenstein, Texas Observer, April 10, 1998, p. 26-27; republished as "Who’s Responsible for the Holocaust?" The Jewish Journal, August 1998, p. 28, 40.
"No Exit": Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, by Tom Lewis, and The City After the Automobile: An Architect’s Vision, by Moshe Safdie, Texas Observer, March 13, 1998, p.22-23.
"Standard Opposition": History on Trial: Cultural Wars and the Teaching of the Past, by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn, Texas Observer, February 13, 1998, p.28-29.
"Backfire": Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over the Nation and How We Can Take It Back, by Jane Holtz Kay, Texas Observer, December 5, 1997, p. 22-24.
From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present, by Gordon G. Whitney, Journal of Forestry, July 1997, p. 40.
"Bad Press": Mayor: An Inside View of San Antonio Politics, 1981-1995, by Nelson Wolff, Texas Observer, July 4, 1997, p. 22-23; also published in the San Antonio Current, June 12-18, 1997, p. 5, 62.
"River Runs Through It": Crown Jewel of Texas: The Story of San Antonio's River, by Louis Fisher, San Antonio Express-News, May 11, 1997, p. 4B.
"Salvage Crew": Saving San Antonio: The Precarious Preservation of a Heritage, by Louis Fisher, Texas Observer, February 14, 1997, p. 28-29.
Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West, by Donald C. Jackson, Western Historical Quarterly, Winter, 1996, p. 525-526.
Who Controls Public Lands? Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Politics, 1870-1990, by Christopher McGory Klyza, Environmental History, October 1996, p. 80-81.
A Conspiracy of Optimism: Management of the National Forests Since
World War Two, by Paul W. Hirt, Pacific Northwest Quarterly,
Spring 1996, p. 99-100.
"Down These Mean Streets," Reviews in American History, December
1995, p. 687-692.
George S. Long: Timber Statesman, by George Twining, Environmental History Review, Winter 1995, p. 92-93.
Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late
Twentieth-Century America,by George E. Marcus, American
Ethnologist, November 1995, p. 1054-55.
Jews and the New American Scene, by Seymour Martin Lipset and
Earl Raab, The Jewish Journal, October 1995, p. 24.
Charles Lathrop Pack: Timberman, Forest Conservationist and Pioneer in Forest Education, by Alexandra Eyle, Journal of American History, June 1995, p. 294.
"Sacred Acts": Making the Timeless Timely, Samuel Stahl, Texas Observer, March 24, 1995, p. 20.
Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America, by Robert Pepperman Taylor, Journal of American History, December 1993, p. 1089.
Bernhard Eduard Fernow and North American Forestry, Andrew Denny Rogers, Environmental History Review, Fall 1993, p. 98-99.
Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1993, p. 3.
History's Anthropology: The Death of William Gooch, by Greg Dening, American Ethnologist, May 1993, p. 390-391.
Contested Lands: Conflict and Compromise in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, by Robert J. Mason, Environmental History Review, Spring, 1993, p. 116-117.
"Gifford Pinchot Reimagined, Or Whose Woods are These?" John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1992, p. 3.
Islands Under Seige: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats, by John Freemuth, Environmental History Review, Fall 1991, p. 85-86.
Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America, edited by Robert Fairbanks and Kathleen Underwood, Journal of Southern History, November 1991, p. 772-773.
City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, edited by Samuel P. Hays, Locus, Summer 1991, p.210-211.
"The Mother of Us All": Sustaining the Earth, by John Young, The Washington Post Book World, 7 October 1990, p. 5.
Before the Horror: The Population of Hawaii on the Eve of Western Contact, by David E. Stannard, American Ethnologist, August 1990, p. 563-564.
The Korean Frontier in America: Immigration to Hawaii,1896-1910,
by Wayne Patterson, American Historical Review, April 1990, p.
601.
"Melos Redux: Nuclear Imperialism in the Pacific," Bulletin of Concerned
Asian Scholars, no. 1, 1990, p. 63-69.
The Creation of Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History, by Michael Ebner, Planning Perspectives, January, 1990, p. 113-114.
Breaking New Ground, by Gifford Pinchot, Environmental
Review, Fall/Winter, 1989, p. 194-195.
"Ah, Wilderness!": Reviews in American History, September 1989,
p. 443-447.
"Opportunisms," Times Literary Supplement, May 26-June 1, 1989, p. 586.
Pioneer Conservationists of Eastern America and Pioneer Conservationists of Western American, by Peter Wild, Journal of Forest History, January 1989, p. p. 46-47.
"Navigating the American Lake": Pacific Studies, November 1988, p. 153-159.
Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions,
by William R. Hutchinson, Journal of American History, June
1988, p. 250-251.
Timber and the Forest Service, by David Clary, Journal of
the West, April 1988, p. 94-95.
Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Conservationist, by Paul Russell Cutright, Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography & History, April 1988, p. 297-298.
The Panama Canal in American Politics, by J. Michael Hogan, Journal of the West, January 1988, p. 93.
Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age (movie), Journal of American History, December 1987, p. 1116-1117.
The Conservation Corps and the Forest Service, by Alison T. Otis, et al., Environmental Review, Winter 1987, p. 315-317.
Early Twentieth-Century Suburbs in North Carolina, by Catherine Bisher and Lawrence Earley, Journal of Southern History, November 1986, p. 649-650.
The Journals of Cochran Forbes, Pacific Studies, November 1986, p. 110-113.
Women in the Depression: Caste and Culture in San Antonio, 1929-1939, by Julia Kirk Blackwelder, Southern Humanities Review, Summer 1986, p. 290-292.
Red, White & Blue Paradise: The American Canal Zone in Panama, by Herbert and Mary Knapp, Journal of the West, July 1986, p. 92.
The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century, by Jane Hunter, Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History, October 1985, p. 590-592.
The First Taint of Civilization, by Francis Hezel, and Where the Waves Fall, by K.R. Howe, Pacific Historian, Winter 1984, p. 77-78.
The Whale's Wake, by Harry Morgan, The Historian, August 1984, p. 609-610.
Hawaii: Islands Under the Influence, by Noel J. Kent, Journal of Developing Areas, July 1984, p. 543-545.
The Betrayal of Liliuokalani: Last Queen of Hawaii, by Helena G. Allen, The Pacific Historian, Spring 1984, p. 543-545.
The Diary of David L. Gregg, edited by Pauline King, Pacific Studies, Fall 1983, p. 169-172.
Empire Can Wait, by Thomas J. Osborne, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, January 1983, p. 41.
Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family, by Paul Nagel, Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography & History, October 1983, p. 645-646.
Pat McCarren, by Jerome Edwards, and Let'em Holler, by Dennis Lythoge, Journal of the West, October 1983, p. 97-98.
Fourteen Years in the Sandwich Islands, by Charles de Varigny, Journal of the Polynesian Society, September 1983, p. 400-402.
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