Environment, May 2007. “Environmental research is increasingly historical research, and the history of environment as a policy issue goes back further than one might think. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was founded almost four decades ago. Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, her exposé on the negative effects of pesticide use, in 1962 (see a guide to her papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library). Much further back, near the end of the U.S. Civil War, George …” (more)
