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Environmental Policy and Protests – HIS115 – US History Since 1870


Environmental Policy and Protests – HIS115 – US History Since 1870

Two major schools of thought in environmental policy and activism had emerged by the end of the 19th century – preservation and conservation.

HIS115 – US History Since 1870 – Simple Book Publishing

Environmental Refugees and the Dustbowl · 6. Environmental Policy and Protests. II. Changing Directions. 7. Reconstruction · 8. Jim Crow Laws · 9. The Gilded ...

Milestones in US EPA and Environmental History

By bringing national attention to water pollution issues, the Cuyahoga River fire was one of the events that led to the creation of the federal ...

Environmental Justice Timeline | US EPA

Martin Luther King, Jr., a major leader in the Civil Rights Movement. The strike advocated for fair pay and better working conditions for ...

Regulating America's Natural Environment

From the founding of the American republic through the 19th century, the nation's environmental policy mostly centered on promoting American settlers' conquest ...

World with Us: The State of American Environmental History

In a now-classic round table discussion among a group of noted historians in 1990, the Journal of American History introduced its readers to the ...

Environmental history of the United States - Wikipedia

The Environmental history of the United States covers the history of the environment over the centuries to the late 20th century, plus the political and ...

Working-Class Environmentalism in America

Late-19th-century topics include working-class support for creating urban parks, workers' early efforts to confront urban pollution and the “ ...

Late industrial 1850-90 | Environmental history

1850 — U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service founded; among the first attempts to regulate technology on behalf of public safety ...

Environmental Justice History | Department of Energy

The initial environmental justice spark sprang from a Warren County, North Carolina, protest. In 1982, a small, predominately African-American community was ...

200 Years of Labor History - National Park Service

"All that harms labor is treason to America." - Abraham Lincoln. In honor of the 200th anniversary of the first wage earner's strike in ...

The World with Us: The State of American Environmental History - jstor

On non-U.S. environmental historiography, see, for ex. "It's about Time: Conservation Biology and History," Conservation Biobgy, 13 (Feb. 1999),. Wilderness to ...

Environmental History: - Gale

Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870–1980 · Environmental History: · Witness the rise of the modern American conservation movement, from the Industrial ...

The American Environmental Movement: Surviving Through Diversity

S See GOTTUEB, supra note 1, at 145. 6 See Jo Freeman, On the Origin of Social Movements, in WAVES OF PROTEST: SOCIAL. MOVEMENTS SINCE THE ...

A Fierce Green Fire | Timeline of Environmental Movement and History

The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 strengthen rules to reduce “acid rain” — and introduce trade-able pollution permits for sulfur dioxide ...

ENVH1_Manuscripts - Gale

... Environmental History Archive: Conservation and Public Policy in America, 1870-1980, American Bison Society Records, 1899-1949, Series 1: Correspondence, 1882 ...