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American historian
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Male
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Birth:
1969
Education:
Harvard University
Yale University
The details
Biography
Introduction
Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is a 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 teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Awards
- 2007 Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention.
Works
- Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale U. Press, January 2013)
- "Special Topics in Calamity History", Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463
- The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-311192-4. (reprint Penguin 2007)