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Informationen zum Autor Debra A. Reid , PhD, is curator of agriculture and the environment at The Henry Ford (THF). She has experience with AASLH’s “Interpreting History” series, as author of Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites (2017) and co-author with David D. Vail of Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites (2019). She is a fellow of the Agricultural History Society, and has received numerous additional awards for her teaching, research, and service. Her books include Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, Rural Reform and the Texas Extension Service (2007), Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction (co-edited with Evan P. Bennett, 2012), and essays in anthologies including Companion to U.S. Agricultural History (forthcoming 2022), Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865-1930 (2015), the Routledge History of Rural America (2016), and Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (2018). Klappentext Interpreting the Environment at Museums and Historic Sites is for anyone wants to become a better steward of the environment and share lessons learned with others. The book provides a primer on "major problems" in researching about the environment and re-focuses thinking about the environment to thinking from the perspective of place and time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Foreword by John C.F. Luzader Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: A Primer on the Environment, Cultural Heritage, and History Interpretation Chapter 1: Exploring Environmental History Chapter 2: Thinking Historically about the Environment Chapter 3: Constructing Stories about Humans and the Environment Part 2: Telling Stories about Humans and Their Environments: Topics and Practice Chapter 4: Creating Working Environments Chapter 5: Getting Water Chapter 6: Generating and Harnessing Power Chapter 7: Growing Food Chapter 8: Traveling and Trading Chapter 9: Building Things Chapter 10: Preserving and Conserving Natural Landscapes Conclusion Bibliographic Essay Timeline of Environmental Ideas, Policies, and Legislation About the Authors ...
