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July 9, 2013
in American History, Environmental Studies, Science

Arcadian America: A New Direction in Narrative History

July 9, 2013
in American History, Environmental Studies, Science

Arcadian America, written by Aaron Sachs, takes a look back at nineteenth-century garden cemeteries and relates them to our current moment of environmental crisis. Throughout, Arcadian America presents the reader with a great deal of historical facts and context, which Sachs effortlessly blends with cultural criticism and personal memoir to

October 7, 2011
in History, Religion, Social Science

A Novel Narration of Religious Conversion

October 7, 2011
in History, Religion, Social Science

Craig Harline knows that history can be boring. He regrets the way in which many historians, himself included, often “write only for each other, in our special language” or “choose to write about subjects that are not exactly obvious in their relevance.” Accordingly, Harline’s Conversions: Two Family Stories from the