CSPAN3 Lectures In History Laura Watt On Landscape Preservation And National Parks October 8, 2017
Prof. Watt today we are going to be talking about landscapes and reservation and how preservation unexpectedly changes places we set aside as parks or protected areas. The intention is not only to understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces but also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make it easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but more importantly, why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something staying the same, and yet preservation actually changes things...