Department of History

The Departments of History and Geosciences and the Humanities Center
Stony Brook University
Present

Conevery Bolton-Valencius
Department of History, University of Massachusetts Boston

Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes:

Creating Knowledge in the Early United States

In the winter of 1811-12, a series of sizable tremors rippled out from the middle Mississippi Valley.  What we now term the New Madrid [...]

Dangerous Trade
Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World

edited by Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling
Is now out from Temple University Press, December 2011.
Based on a December 2007 conference at Stony Brook University.  Follow the further discussion on our Facebook page:
From anthrax to asbestos to pesticides, industrial toxins and pollutants have troubled the world for [...]