Mark Stoll is associate professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He researches how religion has influenced ideas about nature and the environment. His book, Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America, was published in 1997. He has recently published chapters on the influence of religion on Rachel Carson and E. O. Wilson as well as articles about John Milton’s influence on the idea of national parks and the Calvinist origins of the American conservation movement. He edited a book series for ABC-Clio on world environmental history entitled “Nature and Human Societies” and with Dianne Glave co-edited “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History.
This virtual exhibition, first published in 2012, presents the global reception and impact of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as well as the book’s legacy in popular culture, music, literature, and the arts.
Version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2012 virtual exhibition and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.
