Aaron Sachs (historian)
{{short description|American historian (born 1969)}}
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Yale University (PhD)
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Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is an American 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 currently is Professor of History and American Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/history/faculty-department-sachs.php |title=Cornell University Department of History |website=www.arts.cornell.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609185209/http://www.arts.cornell.edu/history/faculty-department-sachs.php |archive-date=2007-06-09}}
Awards
- 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention.
- 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Finalist.{{Cite web |last=Varno |first=David |date=2023-02-01 |title=NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2022 |url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/01/31/national-book-critics-circle-announces-finalists-for-publishing-year-2022/ |access-date=2023-02-03 |website=National Book Critics Circle |language=en-US}}
Selected publications
- Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (New York University Press, 2023) {{ISBN|1479819395}}
- Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton University Press, 2022) {{ISBN|9780691215419}}
- Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013)
- "Special Topics in Calamity History", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463
- {{cite book| title=The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism | publisher=Viking| year= 2006| url=https://archive.org/details/humboldtcurrentn00sach | url-access=registration | isbn=978-0-14-311192-4 }} (reprint Penguin 2007)
References
{{Reflist}}5. Thoreau Society Bulletin, A Different Kind of Wildness: Environmental Humor and Cultural Resilience. Number 104, Winter 2019.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091125070350/http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2007/11/the_humboldt_current_science_a.php "The Humboldt Current: Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs", World's Fair, November 5, 2007, Benjamin Cohen ]
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