This Too Shall Burn: America in the Age of Wood | Daniel Immerwahr

A presentation from 2024-2025 Radcliffe fellow Daniel Immerwahr
Daniel Immerwahr is a historian at Northwestern University, where he is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. His most recent book, the award-winning How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), was a New York Times critics’ top book of 2019 and has been translated into seven languages.
At Radcliffe, Immerwahr is writing an environmental history of the United States that focuses on its relationship to wood and fire. The country, for much of its history, enjoyed an uncommon abundance of timber. And it was, as a result, alarmingly combustible. Find out more at www.radcliffe.....
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