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Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is a historian and Cornell University professor who primarily studies American environmental and cultural history.

Life

He graduated from Harvard University in 1992 with a B.A. in history and literature, and from Yale University, with a Ph.D. in American Studies, in 2004.

He teaches at Cornell University[1] in Ithaca, NY.

Awards

• 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention.

Works

• Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale U. Press, January 2013)
• "Special Topics in Calamity History", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463
• The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-311192-4. (reprint Penguin 2007)

References

5. Thoreau Society Bulletin, A Different Kind of Wildness: Environmental Humor and Cultural Resilience. Number 104, Winter 2019.

External links

• "The Humboldt Current: Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs", World's Fair, November 5, 2007, Benjamin Cohen

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