Environmental+Movement

The Environmental Movement //** //** November History Forum **//

The Teaching American History program **// Democratic Vistas //** invites all interested teachers to attend our November History Forum: “The Environmental Movement” The forum will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, at the Shelton Intermediate School, 675 Constitution Boulevard North, Shelton, CT.
 * // Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM //**
 * // Shelton Intermediate School, 675 Constitution Blvd, Shelton, CT //**

Our guest is Associate Professor of History at Fordham University Steven Stoll. Professor Stoll received his PhD in American History from Yale University in 1994 and taught there for many years. His publications include //The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth; U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945, A Brief History with Documents; Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America//; and //The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California.//

Professor Stoll will discuss the history of the Environmental Movement in postwar America.

Refreshments The Environmental Movement: A Lecture and Discussion Dinner
 * Program: **
 * 3:45 to 4:00 PM **
 * 4:00 to 5:30 PM **
 * 5:30 to 6:00 PM **

A forty dollar stipend and CEUs are available for participating teachers. We are accepting sixty participants to this forum. Dinner will be included. Registration is required; please register by October 29th. Please complete an application online at this, Democratic Vistas, site November Forum Application. You will be notified by October 30th if you have been accepted to participate in this monthly forum.