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 | City, Country, Empire: Landscapes in Environmental History
edited by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005
excerpt from book cover: In the urgently expanding field of environmental history, two trends are emerging. Research has internationalized, crossing political and historical borders. And urban spaces are increasingly seen as part of, not apart from, the global environment. In this book, Jeffry Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey have gathered much of the important work pushing the field in new directions. Eleven essays by prominent and regionally diverse scholars address how human and natural forces collaborate in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires. |
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 | The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era
by Kurkpatrick Dorsey
University of Washington Press, 1998
excerpt from book cover: In this book, Kurkpatrick Dorsey examines the first three comprehensive wildlife conservation treaties in history, all between the United States and Canada: the Inland Fisheries Treaty of 1908, the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, and the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916. In his highly readable text, Dorsey argues that successful conservation treaties came only after conservationists learned to marshal scientific evidence, public sentiment, and economic incentives in their campaigns for protective legislation. |
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 | Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation
by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Ecco, 2010
excerpt from book cover: It is perhaps the most memorable event of the twentieth century—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within seven weeks of the President's death, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next forty-six years, the letters would remain essentially untouched. Now historian Ellen Fitzpatrick has selected approximately 250 of these letters for inclusion in Letters to Jackie, a remarkable human record that perfectly preserves the heart-wrenching grief and soul searching of the nation in a time of crisis. Capturing the extraordinary eloquence of so-called ordinary Americans across generations, regions, race, political leanings, and religion—in messages written on elegant stationery, scraps of paper, in pencil, type, ink smudged by tears, and in barely legible handwriting—the letters capture what John F. Kennedy meant to the country, and how his death for some divided American history into Before and After. |
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 | History's Memory: Writing America's Past 1880-1980
by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Harvard University Press, 2002
excerpt from book cover: Enthusiasts and critics both have looked to the political upheavals of the 1960s to explain recent transformations in historical study. But just how new are our contemporary approaches to the study and writing of American history? This question lies at the heart of History's Memory, Ellen Fitzpatrick's sweeping study of the past century of American historical writings.
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 | Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform
by Ellen Fitzpatrick
Oxford University Press, 1990
excerpt from book cover: This book examines the lives and careers of four American women—Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor—who played decisive roles in early-twentieth-century reform crusades. Ellen Fitzpatrick follows these four women from their collective experience as University of Chicago graduate students at the turn of the century to their extraordinary careers as social activists, exploring the impact of their academic training and their experiences as professional women on issues ranging from prison reform to Progressive Party politics. |
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