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Andrew C. Isenberg

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Are You Not Large and Unwieldy Enough Already?

John Quincy Adams challenges the idea of an expanding American frontier.

by Andrew C. Isenberg via HNN on April 23, 2025
Conservatives Before and After Earth Day

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?

by James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg via Harvard University Press Blog on April 22, 2019

The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump

James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg

The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850

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Book cover of "Republican Reversal."

Conservative Ideology and the Environment

“Big money alone does not fully explain the Republican embrace of the gospel of more.”

by Jonathan H. Adler via Regulation on June 1, 2020

Bison drinking from a pond.

How the Iron Horse Spelled Doom for the American Buffalo

From homesteaders to tourists to the U.S. Army, railroads flooded the Great Plains with people who saw bison as pests, amusements, or opportunities for profit.

by Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan via Literary Hub on October 16, 2023

Chainlink fence in a desert with a danger sign warning of arsenic poison

The Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush

Almost 175 years after the Gold Rush began, Californians are left holding the bag for thousands of abandoned mines.

by Leah Campbell via Gizmodo on May 15, 2023

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