2005
September 20

William Leavenworth, University of New Hampshire,

“From Resource to Commodity: A Reliable Way to Exhaust Self-Renewing Ecosystems—The Example of the Nineteenth-Century New England Fisheries”

Comment: To be announced.

December 6

David Whelpley, Northeastern University,

“Boston Harbor and Secondary Treatment: A Legislative History of §301 (h) of the Clean Water Act”

Comment: Julie O’Brien, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and former Director of Planning, Metropolitan District Commission

2006

Tuesday, February 7

David C. Hsiung, Juniata College and the Massachusetts Historical Society, “Environmental History and the American Revolution.”

Comment: Joseph Cullon, Dartmouth College

Tuesday, March 14

Philip Cash, Emanuel College,

“The Impact of Smallpox in Boston to 1803”

Comment: Conevery Valencius, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT

Tuesday, April 11

Jim Lambrechts, Wentworth Institute of Technology,

“Recent Findings on Characteristics of Nineteenth-Century Fill in the Back Bay and the Fenway”

Comment: Jack Duggan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Conference:
Thursday, May 4-Saturday, May 6, “Remaking Boston: The City and Environmental Change Over the Centuries”

Boston Area Early American History Seminar Program of Interest: Thursday, September 15 Panel Discussion: Historians and Their Audiences—Joseph Ellis, Mount Holyoke College; William M. Fowler, Jr., Massachusetts Historical Society; and Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University