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Rachel Carson

She helped launch the environmental movement and pioneered the idea of the ecology of the human body.

Skirmishing about environmentalism may well continue forever, but the major war is over. It lasted far longer than most people realize.

You’ve likely never heard of her.

Earlier this year, Time magazine celebrated the end of the 20th century and its own 75th anniversary together with big parties and statistics.

You Asked for It

When American Heritage suggested last year that I put together the article that became “101 Things Every College Graduate Should Know about American History,” I accepted the assignment eagerly.

Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook

America is not a nation of readers, yet books have had a deep and lasting effect on its national life.
Everyone knows a little about the rise and fall of DDT—how it was once hailed as a great boon to mankind; how useful it was in field and garden, house and yard; and how at last to our dismay it was unmasked as a killer, the chemical Al Capone, a threat to our

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