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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Correct! And ag conservation made this possible. From my book:
Robert Hirschfeld@rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 4w agoUS environmental law doesn’t really treat farms as either nature OR industry. It gets special treatment, exempted from rules at both ends. Ag runoff largely is untouched by the Clean Water Act. Farm pollution exists in a legal void that no comparable factory would every enjoy.
"Farms aren't nature" is a hot take if you don't live in the Corn Belt. Farms aren’t nature? correct. Ethanol mandate is terrible policy? Correct. But I’d like to address Yglesias' claim that America doesn’t categorize farms as nature and how that’s a strength, plus a few other points 🧵 (looong)
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 4w agoOne of my hottest takes — it makes sense for public policy to preserve nature as a priority but farms aren’t nature! www.slowboring.com/p/farms-aren...
“Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Deut. 27:19 “I was hungry & you gave me food, I was thirsty & you gave me drink, I was a stranger & you welcomed me... [A]s you did it to one of the least of my brethren you did it to me.” Matt. 25:35, 40
Fortunate to keep good company at AHS w/ fellow @uncpress.bsky.social Flows, Migrations, & Exchanges authors and winners of AHS best-book awards. L to R: me, series co-editor Mart Stewart, @robinshistory.bsky.social, & Tim Lorek. Photo by Ben Gray for the Agricultural History Society
Truly honored and humbled to receive the Saloutos award tonight from the Agricultural History Society! @uncpress.bsky.social
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2mo agoCongratulations to @joshuanygren.bsky.social on winning the Agricultural History Society’s Saloutos best book award for The State of Conservation! You can watch/listen to our @greenhouseuis.net conversation w him on the book here: 🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
Congratulations to @joshuanygren.bsky.social on winning the Agricultural History Society’s Saloutos best book award for The State of Conservation! You can watch/listen to our @greenhouseuis.net conversation w him on the book here: 🎥 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e... 🎧 newnatures.org/greenhouse/p...
This morning, for the first time in years, I heard the incantation from hell for any 90s runner: “Run, Forrest. Run!”
Just put the bow on my Seinfeld class. We finished with a watch party (comparing the finales of Curb and Seinfeld) and feast: a big salad, marble rye, cinnamon babka, black & white cookies, muffin(top)s, Junior Mints, Jujyfruits, and Snapple. Such a great group of students. And…
Josh Nygren@joshuanygren.bsky.social · last yr.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.”
SEEKING PARTICIPANTS For their MA thesis, my advisee is conducting an oral history on family members of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s-90s. They are seeking folks to interview. See the flyer for details. Wondering if folks can share this with their networks. Thank you!
Another review! Thanks to Fraser Livingston for the close read! @uncpress.bsky.social s-usih.org/2025/09/25825/
Fraser Livingston on Joshua Nygren’s *The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920* | Society for US Intellectual History
Multiple historians have traced the causes that led to the mass exodus of America’s farm population since the early 1900s, one of the most substantial demographic shifts in twentieth-century US histor...
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Josh Nygren@joshuanygren.bsky.social · last yr.Latest review!
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/
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...
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.
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I sure hope someone shares this link with Rachel Gross. theonion.com/historians-c...
Historians Confirm Lewis And Clark Set Out On Expedition To Justify Purchase Of Expensive Camping Equipment
PRINCETON, NJ—Dispelling long-held notions that the trip was conducted to map newly acquired U.S. territory in the West, Princeton University historians confirmed Thursday that Meriwether Lewis and Wi...
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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?
Josh Nygren@joshuanygren.bsky.social · last yr.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.”
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.”
Latest review!
H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · last yr.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
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
Logan Jaffe@loganjaffe.bsky.social · last yr.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. 🧵
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...
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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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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...
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
Eric Booth@egbooth.bsky.social · last yr.Excellent interview with @joshuanygren.bsky.social on his amazing new book and connections with the Coon Creek Watershed. cooncreekwatershed.org/cccwc-june-m...
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.
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · last yr.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 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
April at the @greenhouseuis.net with book talks by @joshuanygren.bsky.social and @parhee.bsky.social and another #envhum themed board games night! 🌿
Very excited for this conversation!
Dolly Jørgensen@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
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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