American Environmental History

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    • The Making of an American Sea
    • By: Jack E. Davis
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction - the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic....

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    • America's Best Idea
    • By: Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
    • Narrated by: Ken Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War....

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    • An Environmental History of the American West (Environment and Region in the American West)
    • By: Sara Dant
    • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as “Eden” and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years....

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    • An Environmental History
    • By: Donald Edward Davis
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained....

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,325 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
    • By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
    • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • The story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions and a call for environmentalists to learn from the indigenous community’s rich history of activism....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South
    • By: David Silkenat
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape....

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    • A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice
    • By: Daniel Stone
    • Narrated by: Daniel Stone
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 02-18-25
    • Language: English
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    • From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer comes the untold story of Alice Hamilton, a trailblazing doctor and public health activist who took on the booming auto industry—and the deadly invention of leaded gasoline, which would poison millions of people across America.

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    • A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
    • By: Carl A. Zimring
    • Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him "clean and articulate", he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in history....

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    • A National Wake-Up Call
    • By: Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson, Naomi Klein
    • Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Together the Secwepemc activist intellectual and the Syilx (Okanagan) businessman bring a fresh perspective and new ideas to Canada’s most glaring piece of unfinished business: the place of Indigenous peoples within the country’s political and economic space.

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    • George Bird Grinnell Adventurer, Activist, and Author
    • By: Thom Hatch
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Award-winning author Thom Hatch presents the definitive biography of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), who was recognized in his time as "The Father of American Conservation." This book chronicles not only Grinnell's life, but also offers a history of his accomplishments....

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    • Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
    • By: Judith Nies
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC....

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    • The Creation of Everglades National Park
    • By: Chris Wilhelm
    • Narrated by: Steve Menasche
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
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    • This book chronicles the creation of Everglades National Park, the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. Prior to the park's creation, the Everglades was seen as a reviled and useless swamp, unfit for typical recreational or development projects....

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    • Envisioning Myth and History
    • By: Richard White, Jesse Amble White
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to "print the legend," collaborates here with his son in excavating the layers of legend built into California's landscapes. Together they expose the bedrock of the past, and the history they uncover is astonishing....

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    • Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
    • By: Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Black Snake is the story of four leaders - LaDonna Allard, Jasilyn Charger, Lisa DeVille, and Kandi White - and their fight against the pipeline. It is the story of a new generation of environmental activists, galvanized at Standing Rock....

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    • On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God
    • By: Erik Reece
    • Narrated by: Chris Abell
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the award-winning author of Lost Mountain comes a stirring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiry....

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