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Classics of Environmental Literature
Ben Franklin & Dock Creek
Radium girls
Ellen Swallow Richards & ‘Home Ecology’
Gifford Pinchot’s and the Anti-Pollution League
Henry Ford, Charles Kettering and the fuel of the future
The leaded gasoline tragedy
Charles F. Kettering and the 1921 discovery of tetraethyl lead
Ten myths about leaded gasoline
Historiography of extinction
Endangered species timeline
Mother of the Forest
History of Greenpeace
EH lectures
EPA history
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Paleotechnic
Prehistoric
Classical 1000 BCE-500 CE
Middle Ages 5th – 15th centuries
Renaissance 16th – 17th centuries
Enlightenment
Early Enlightenment 1650-1750
Late Enlightenment 1750-1810
Industrial
Early Industrial 1810-1850
Late industrial 1850-90
Progressive
Early Progressive 1890-1899
A new century 1900 – 1909
Late Progressive 1910-1920
20thC
Roaring 1920s
Depression – 1930s
WWII & postwar 1940-1949
Cold war 1950-59
The Sixties
Seventies 1970-79
Eighties 1980-89
Nineties 1990-99
21stC
2000 – 2009
2010 – 2012
2013 – 2016
2017 – 2019
2020 – Present
EH lectures
Mark Fiege
Donald Worster
Naomi Klein
Mitchell Thomashow
