by bill-youngs | Nov 2, 2023 | Fireside Talks
Ideology and Action John Adams once said that Independence was born in the hearts and minds of the American people before the Revolution actually began. Americans were accustomed to discussing “natural rights” before they waged a war and established a...
by bill-youngs | Oct 24, 2023 | Fireside Talks
“We were not allowed to use the words global and warming in the same paragraph.” A few years ago I was at a high school reunion in Indiana and had an interesting conversation with a classmate, Jan Van Wagtendonk — you already know Jan from a YouTube...
by bill-youngs | Oct 24, 2023 | Fireside Talks
History 452 Graduate Students: This essay has a word or two about the seemingly unlikely connection between mechanical and humanistic talents in three leading naturalists. In looking for the final version of the ms, I was unable to find the latest draft; so the...
by Brian O'Riley | Oct 24, 2023 | Fireside Talks
J. William T. Youngs, Professor of History, Eastern Washington University 2012 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering “Celebrating 150 Years of Thoreau’s Life, Works, and Legacy” I want to begin by confessing to the singularity of my using a MacBook for my...
by Brian O'Riley | Oct 19, 2023 | Fireside Talks
One (of many) recurrent themes in History 373 is the question of the ways in which and the degree to which we expose ourselves to the wilderness. And which of these ways and degrees seem legitimate — as measured by our class standards — and which levels of...
by bill-youngs | Sep 19, 2023 | Fireside Talks
During August, 2021, I went to Tanzania with my family — eight of us in all. During this Fall Quarter I will post notes and images on our Safari for our course on the American wilderness. Now, of course, Tanzania is not part of the US, but by looking at...
