AMST 236 / EVST 318 / HIST 199 / HSHM 207: American Energy History: Primary Sources
This guide is intended for students in Professor Paul Sabin's course and provides an overview of key resources in the Yale Library for writing your research papers this semester.
A major collection of approximately 55 newspapers with coverage from the 19th to early 21st century. Titles include the New York Times and Washington Post.
The starting point for online research on the U.S. Congress. Includes documents such as bills, transcripts of Congressional Hearings, the Congressional Record, and Congressional Research Service reports.
This set of records is from the National Archives and is part of "American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate, 1960-1975” within the ProQuest History Vault.
This set of records is from the National Archives and is part of "American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate, 1960-1975” within the ProQuest History Vault.
Contains many pamphlets and programs relating to energy issues that were published and promoted on the occasion of several world's fairs.
Archival Collections at Yale
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Carson, Rachel, PapersRachel Carson (1907-1964), marine biologist and conservationist, was the author of Silent Spring and other works. The Rachel Carson Papers consist of manuscripts, notebooks, letters, newspaper clippings, photos, and printed material relating to the research and publications of Rachel Carson.
Established in Connecticut in 1984 to coordinate and continue the activities of several groups resisting the production and deployment of Trident nuclear submarines and missiles in Connecticut.
Cooper, Peter B., PapersAttorney. Correspondence, notes, and background material that document his legal work to preserve the quality of the environment in the New Haven area and on Long Island Sound. Cases involve issues of energy transmission, coastal area development, highway construction, pollution of public water supplies, air quality control, and nuclear power plant construction.
Galston, Arthur William, PapersYale biology professor. The papers highlight Galston’s concern over the ecological harm done by herbicides and his efforts to end the use of Agent Orange, which was sprayed as a defoliant in Vietnam by the United States military.
Collection documents the planning, construction and completion of the renovation of the Willcox Canal and the creation of an irrigation district by the Grand River Irrigation and Development Company, the Willcox Canal Company, and the Grand Valley Irrigation District, of Grand Valley, Garfield County, Colorado. 1907-1912.
Grinnell, George Bird, PapersThe papers document Grinnell’s leading role in the American conservation movement. The material focuses on his adult life (1886-1938) and details his work as editor of Forest and Stream magazine, authority on American Indians of the West, and active participant in the National Audubon Society, the Boone and Crockett Club, the American Game Protective and Propagation Association, and the National Parks Association.
Hutchinson, G. Evelyn, PapersEducator, zoologist, and ecologist. The papers consist of correspondence, writings, addresses, notes and research materials, subject files, memorabilia, and photographs relating to G. Evelyn Hutchinson’s work as a zoologist and limnologist, as well as his travels as part of the Yale North India Expedition.
Kent, William, Family PapersPublic official. The papers document Kent’s activities as a municipal reformer in Chicago and Northern California; his interests in conservation, recreation, and public control of water power; his campaigns for election to Congress; his service in the U.S. House of Representatives and on the U.S. Tariff Commission; and his business interests in cattle ranches in Nebraska and Nevada.
Lindbergh, Charles Augustus, PapersAviator and conservationist. Among the many areas of interest to Lindbergh were his support for the reduction of whale harvesting, his collaboration with Lowell Thomas to minimize the effect of the Alaskan pipeline in the 1960s, his support in the founding of the World Wildlife Fund, and his opposition to the development of the supersonic transport jet. Papers are restricted but permission can be obtained from his family.
These records document the activities of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), an alliance composed of four likeminded independent member organizations, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the National Council of Churches of Christ (NCCC), the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life (COEJL), and the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN).
The collection comprises the records of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an American environmental action organization founded in 1970. The records consist of NRDC's organization-wide publications, including annual reports, magazines, and newsletters, and correspondence, publications, press clippings, technical reports, and photographs documenting NRDC's Nuclear Program.
Newlands, Francis Griffith, PapersPublic official. The papers highlight Nevada Democratic and Silver Party politics and focus on Newlands’s legislative programs on transportation, particularly railroads and inland waterways, interstate commerce, irrigation, flood control, land reclamation, currency and silver, conservation and forests, and tariffs.
These archives document the work of the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, an ecumenical group that was formed in 1986 to highlight environmental dimensions of the Christian tradition, help Christian individuals and churches become more ecologically responsible, and work with people of other traditions in the common effort to create a more sustainable global society.
The committee was formed in 1966 to establish a program for the preservation and protection of Connecticut’s coastal and inland wetlands. Through educational publications and meetings, the committee worked to garner public support for legislation protecting Connecticut’s marshes from dredging, landfill, and commercial development.
Shepard, Ward, PapersForestry expert and environmentalist. Shepard was the director of Harvard Forest School, 1936-1939; worked with the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs as assistant to John Collier, 1933-1936 and after 1939 as adviser to the Department of Agriculture on forest policy; wrote on problems of erosion and on the development of natural resources.
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental StudiesRecords of deans (1900-2003); officers and faculty; departments, offices, programs, and projects; student records; student, alumni, and support organizations; and audio-visual material and memorabilia.
