Saving Yellowstone News Today

This month, Amache National Historic Site near Granada, Colorado, has officially joined the ranks of America’s national parks. Ben Railton suggests some other national historical parks that commemorate the displacement of American communities.

For Megan Kate Nelson, keeping the nation’s first national park spectacular remains a heart-felt challenge.

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This wide-ranging list offers context for our rapidly changing world

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and illuminate how the nation ended up where it is today

Readable, well researched and carefully documented, 'Saving Yellowstone' does not get bogged down in minutiae in its history of the park.

These communities rely almost entirely on tourism for their existence—yet too much tourism, not to mention climate change, can destroy them

This week, David Priess chatted with Meredith Hindley about Casablanca, her advocacy for the humanities and history, American and French resistance intelligence operations in French Morocco and more.

Join Carnegie for a special event, the first of our two-part Summer Reads series, featuring Megan Kate Nelson, author of Saving Yellowstone, and Dan Baer, acting director of Carnegie’s Europe Program, on how Yellowstone might inform our understanding of contemporary political discourse on land and the environment.

Celebrating 150 years of Yellowstone with Megan Kate Nelson, author of Saving Yellowstone, Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. Plus, artist David Rios Ferreira on his new UMFA exhibit, Transcending Time and Space.