Event Title
"I Should like to Invent Useful Machinery:" John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Alexander von Humboldt -- Wilderness Appreciation and Practical Mechanics
Location
University of the Pacific, Grace Covell Hall, Stockton, CA
Start Date
23-3-2018 8:30 AM
End Date
24-3-2018 5:30 PM
Description
Youngs, Eastern Washington University professor of history, takes one last look at Muir and sums up the day's presentations.
Mar 23rd, 8:30 AM
Mar 24th, 5:30 PM
"I Should like to Invent Useful Machinery:" John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Alexander von Humboldt -- Wilderness Appreciation and Practical Mechanics
University of the Pacific, Grace Covell Hall, Stockton, CA
Youngs, Eastern Washington University professor of history, takes one last look at Muir and sums up the day's presentations.
Comments
J. William T. "Bill" Youngs has taught United States history at Eastern Washington University in a variety of areas, including Colonial and Revolutionary America, the New Nation, American Environmental history, History of the American National Parks, History of Disease, Historical Writing and Editing, and Historical Research. His publications include God's Messengers: Religious Leadership in Colonial New England, 1700-1750 (1976), American Realities: Historical Episodes from the First Settlements to the Present (1981, 8th ed., 2010), Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Ute (1985), The Congregationalists (1990), and The Fair and the Falls: Spokane's Expo '74, Transforming and American Environment (1996), which won the Washington State Governor's Writers Award