Talk by Conevery Bolton-Valencius, Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m., 1008 Humanities
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
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 [...]
Department of History