Peggy O'Neill-Jones
Regional Director
Library of Congress
Teaching with Primary Sources
http://www.mscd.edu/tps
"Why should not we who have renounced the king's authority have our national preserves where no villages need be destroyed in which the bear and panther and some even of the hunter race may still exist and not be civilized off the face of the earth our forests not to hold the king's game merely but to hold and preserve the king himself also the lord of creation not for idle sport or food but for inspiration and our own true recreation or shall we like villains grub them all up poaching on our own national domains?” 
 
The Maine Woods, Henery David Thoreau - 1864
America, the Environment, and Primary Sources
Imperialism
A new map of North America, from the latest discoveries 1778. Engrav'd for Carvers Travels
http://tinyurl.com/n5mzmz
Manifest Destiny
American progress. Crofutt, George A. c1873
http://tinyurl.com/ljdsfc
Conservation Movement
Portrait of Thoreau
http://tinyurl.com/oavlrr
The Maine Woods  By Henry David Thoreau -  1864
http://tinyurl.com/pc89sq
National Parks
Great Falls of the Yellowstone River – Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories  (1870-1880)
http://tinyurl.com/omvdf3
U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 32, Part 2, Proclamation No. 19, pp. 1999-2002. "By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation." 1902
http://tinyurl.com/p6rhej
Portrait of Teddy Roosevelt (c1908)
http://tinyurl.com/ovcgts
NYC : Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, [between 1936 and 1939]
http://tinyurl.com/p3v8y8
Cleanup and Prevention
Cuyahoga River Fire
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642
Ron Cobb "Scenic Drive Next 2 Miles," 1968
http://designobserver.com/images/features/heller_cobb5.jpg
Pollution: Keep America Beautiful - Iron Eyes Cody
http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=132
Today
Annual Average Global Surface Temperature Anomalies 1880-2006
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recenttc_triad.html
Hole in the ozone
NASA and NOAA Announce Ozone Hole is a Double Record Breaker - 10.19.06
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/ozone_record.html
Kyoto Protocol – Christo Komarnitski
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/KyotoProtocol/4.asp