This project is a work in progress.
Things I’m reading
- John A. Adams, Damming the Colorado: The Rise of Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990)
- Jimmy Banks, Corralling the Colorado: The First Fifty Years of Lower Colorado River Authority (Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 1988)
- Jörg Colberg, Photography’s Neoliberal Realism (London: Mack, 2020)
- Calvin R. Fremling, Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)
- Michale Hiltzik, Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century (New York: Free Press, 2010)
- Robert Kelley Schneiders, Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri (Development of Western Resources (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999)
- Bill Lambrecht, Big Muddy Blues: True Tales and Twisted Politics Along Lewis and Clark’s Missouri River (Providence: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005)
- Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964)
- Timothy R. Pauketat, Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi (London: Penguin Books, 2010)
- Ashley Shelbey, Red River Rising: The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City (Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2018)
- Upton Sinclair, Oil! (London: Penguin Books, 2007)
- Earl Swift, Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia (Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2002)
- Barbara Vilander, Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1999)
- Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World (New York: Vintage, 2016)