Josh Nygren
@joshuanygren.bsky.social
Historian studying the political economy of environmental protection. Book on US agricultural conservation out with UNC Press: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469680491/the-state-of-conservation/. Wisconsinite in Missouri.
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Josh Nygren
@joshuanygren.bsky.social
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The State of Conservation | Joshua Nygren | University of North Carolina Press
In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Mergin...
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Publication Day!
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
My book is officially out with @uncpress.bsky.social. A case study of conservation from the Progressive Era to the age of sustainability, it shows how agricultural conservation aided the rise of industrial ag -- with similar results for land & people.
uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Another review!
Thanks to Fraser Livingston for the close read! @uncpress.bsky.social
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Thanks to Fraser Livingston for the close read! @uncpress.bsky.social
s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Another review!
Thanks to Fraser Livingston for the close read! @uncpress.bsky.social
s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/
Thanks to Fraser Livingston for the close read! @uncpress.bsky.social
s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/
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I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have gotten our @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for September & October posted!
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
Always on Mondays at 16:00 (4pm) Central European time.
For details see: newnatures.org/greenhouse/
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So honored--My most recent book, Under Alien Skies (UNC Press), won the Society of the Cincinnati Prize. Public reception at their headquarters in October!
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The Society of the Cincinnati Prize - The American Revolution Institute
The Society of the Cincinnati Prize has been awarded since 1989 to an outstanding scholarly book on the American Revolution. It is now awarded annually.
www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org
July 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So honored--My most recent book, Under Alien Skies (UNC Press), won the Society of the Cincinnati Prize. Public reception at their headquarters in October!
www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/society-of-t...
www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/society-of-t...
As far as I know, this is the first class of its kind. We’re taking a study tour of NYC. I’m hoping Kenny Kramer will resume his reality tour, but I haven’t heard back.
Perhaps @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social could pull some strings?
Perhaps @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social could pull some strings?
I’ve been rewatching SEINFELD the past few months. Finished it today. Coming this spring: a class on 1990s history told through the show.
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
July 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As far as I know, this is the first class of its kind. We’re taking a study tour of NYC. I’m hoping Kenny Kramer will resume his reality tour, but I haven’t heard back.
Perhaps @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social could pull some strings?
Perhaps @i-jasonalexander.bsky.social could pull some strings?
I’ve been rewatching SEINFELD the past few months. Finished it today. Coming this spring: a class on 1990s history told through the show.
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
July 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’ve been rewatching SEINFELD the past few months. Finished it today. Coming this spring: a class on 1990s history told through the show.
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
“The Course about Nothing: Life in SEINFELD’s America.”
Latest review!
New book review:
Van Lanen on Nygren, Joshua: _State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920, The_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120962
Van Lanen on Nygren, Joshua: _State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920, The_. University of North Carolina Press, 2025. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20120962
Nygren, Joshua. The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920. : University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 322 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 9781469680491. Reviewed by Amanda L. Van Lanen (Lewis-Clark State College) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (July, 2025) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)
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July 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Latest review!
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
As a journalist and emerging public historian, I spent much of the past week reading through transcripts of oral histories made and collected by residents of Kerr County, Texas – where flash floods killed more than 100 people this month.
There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵
There’s one recording that stood out to me. 🧵
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
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Connections: Reading @joshuanygren.bsky.social's The State of Conservation (a great book), reminded me that Henry Reuss, key congressional sponsor of the Ice Age Trail, was also an outspoken critic of stream channelization, which was most prominent in loess landscapes uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The State of Conservation | Joshua Nygren | University of North Carolina Press
In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Mergin...
uncpress.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Connections: Reading @joshuanygren.bsky.social's The State of Conservation (a great book), reminded me that Henry Reuss, key congressional sponsor of the Ice Age Trail, was also an outspoken critic of stream channelization, which was most prominent in loess landscapes uncpress.org/book/9781469...
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"If Isaiah were prophesizing today, the United States would be the subject of his righteous fury." #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/opinion/home...
Homeland Security weaponizes Bible verse to justify Trump's immigration tactics
"Here am I, send me," from Isaiah, is the caption on a DHS promotional video, which also used a clip from the movie "Fury." The message is clear: It is glorifying Trump's military intervention at the ...
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July 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"If Isaiah were prophesizing today, the United States would be the subject of his righteous fury." #PrayForAmerica #RememberThePoor www.ncronline.org/opinion/home...
This restroom sign in Rocky Mountain National Park tells some stories
June 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This restroom sign in Rocky Mountain National Park tells some stories
From the town of Escanaba
Sailed a schooner one fall day
Its name was Christina Nilsson
And it made the news today
The Nilsson had not cleared weather
It could not find a slip
It sunk with all its cargo
It was pig iron on the ship
Pig iron on the ship
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/l...
Sailed a schooner one fall day
Its name was Christina Nilsson
And it made the news today
The Nilsson had not cleared weather
It could not find a slip
It sunk with all its cargo
It was pig iron on the ship
Pig iron on the ship
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/l...
June 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
From the town of Escanaba
Sailed a schooner one fall day
Its name was Christina Nilsson
And it made the news today
The Nilsson had not cleared weather
It could not find a slip
It sunk with all its cargo
It was pig iron on the ship
Pig iron on the ship
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/l...
Sailed a schooner one fall day
Its name was Christina Nilsson
And it made the news today
The Nilsson had not cleared weather
It could not find a slip
It sunk with all its cargo
It was pig iron on the ship
Pig iron on the ship
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/l...
I had a great conversation with Sydney Widell of the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, a true grassroots organization doing some great work with land & water management in the Driftless Area.
Excited to join their meeting next week!
@uncpress.bsky.social
Excited to join their meeting next week!
@uncpress.bsky.social
Excellent interview with @joshuanygren.bsky.social on his amazing new book and connections with the Coon Creek Watershed. cooncreekwatershed.org/cccwc-june-m...
Conservation historian to share new book at June 4 CCCWC Meeting. - Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc
The Coon Creek Community Watershed Council is pleased to welcome Josh Nygren at our June 4 meeting to share insights from his research. We’ll meet at Jersey Valley County Park at 6pm for dinner, and J...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I had a great conversation with Sydney Widell of the Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, a true grassroots organization doing some great work with land & water management in the Driftless Area.
Excited to join their meeting next week!
@uncpress.bsky.social
Excited to join their meeting next week!
@uncpress.bsky.social
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Nature, Water, and Land Management in the West. Chaired by @joshuanygren.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Nature, Water, and Land Management in the West. Chaired by @joshuanygren.bsky.social
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With a cover and a listing on Amazon, it's official. ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS will be published in October by the University of Oklahoma Press. Pre-orders now available!
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Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels
Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels [Manuel, Jeffrey T., Rogers, Thomas D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels
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April 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
With a cover and a listing on Amazon, it's official. ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS will be published in October by the University of Oklahoma Press. Pre-orders now available!
www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi...
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Thanks so much for having me, Dolly and Finn Arne! I enjoyed our conversation.
Online Monday, 7 Apr 2025, 16:00 CET / 10:00 Eastern:
@joshuanygren.bsky.social will discuss his book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 (@uncpress.bsky.social 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series
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@joshuanygren.bsky.social will discuss his book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 (@uncpress.bsky.social 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum book talk series
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
April 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Thanks so much for having me, Dolly and Finn Arne! I enjoyed our conversation.
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April at the @greenhouseuis.net with book talks by @joshuanygren.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social and another #envhum themed board games night!
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March 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
April at the @greenhouseuis.net with book talks by @joshuanygren.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social and another #envhum themed board games night!
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Very excited for this conversation!
Monday, 7 April 2025:
Josh Nygren @joshuanygren.bsky.social will discuss The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Start time is 16:00 Central European time / 10:00 Eastern.
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Josh Nygren @joshuanygren.bsky.social will discuss The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920 (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2025)
Start time is 16:00 Central European time / 10:00 Eastern.
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
March 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Very excited for this conversation!
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Check out the most recent episode of Heartland History. @camdenburd.bsky.social has a great conversation with @joshuanygren.bsky.social about his recent book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
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Josh Nygren - The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Podcast Episode · Heartland History · 03/04/2025 · 1h 3m
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March 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Check out the most recent episode of Heartland History. @camdenburd.bsky.social has a great conversation with @joshuanygren.bsky.social about his recent book The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
I had a great time speaking with @camdenburd.bsky.social about THE STATE OF CONSERVATION. Check out the link below to hear us talk about bulldozers, kudzu, and thieving grandpas!
March 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I had a great time speaking with @camdenburd.bsky.social about THE STATE OF CONSERVATION. Check out the link below to hear us talk about bulldozers, kudzu, and thieving grandpas!
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For those who want to read the English version:
www.uis.no/en/research/... Congratulations @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social Fantastisk! Great for Greenhouse too.
Dolly Jørgensen receives prestigious Swedish award
Jørgensen will be awarded the 2025 Swedish Gad Rausing Prize for her groundbreaking research in environmental history and the environmental humanities. The Prize is worth 1.5 million kroner.
www.uis.no
February 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
For those who want to read the English version:
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"... Reminds me of childhood memories ..." — Redundant. You either have a memory, or you’re reminded of something. You’re not reminded of a memory. Heavy metal fans won’t stand for such writing, my friend."
Notes on “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor
Hi, Axl — Just got your manuscript and demo for the song “Sweet Child O’ [sic] Mine.” I think we need to talk. As your editor, I am responsible for...
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February 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"... Reminds me of childhood memories ..." — Redundant. You either have a memory, or you’re reminded of something. You’re not reminded of a memory. Heavy metal fans won’t stand for such writing, my friend."
“If the federal government can’t mandate conservation, at least it can say it won’t be party to a farmer’s raping his own land.” - Tom Barlow of @nrdc.org, 1982
“We must stop paying farmers to destroy our nation’s soil” - conservative Sen. Wm Armstrong (R-CO), 1982
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
“We must stop paying farmers to destroy our nation’s soil” - conservative Sen. Wm Armstrong (R-CO), 1982
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
A Midwest farmland owner tests a longstanding wetland conservation law called 'swampbuster'
Under a 40-year-old law, the U.S. Department of Agriculture can withhold subsidies, like crop insurance and disaster payments, from farmers who clear, drain or convert wetlands. A company that owns fa...
www.kcur.org
January 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“If the federal government can’t mandate conservation, at least it can say it won’t be party to a farmer’s raping his own land.” - Tom Barlow of @nrdc.org, 1982
“We must stop paying farmers to destroy our nation’s soil” - conservative Sen. Wm Armstrong (R-CO), 1982
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
“We must stop paying farmers to destroy our nation’s soil” - conservative Sen. Wm Armstrong (R-CO), 1982
www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...