MHS News

MHS Announces New Essay Collection—
Remaking Boston

A 2006 MHS conference on the environmental history of Boston has recently resulted in an important collection of essays. Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings, edited by Anthony N. Penna (Northeastern University) and Conrad Edick Wright (MHS), offers contributions by geologists, botanists, urban planners, a cartographer, and a geographer as well as historians that paint a valuable picture of the city's complicated environmental development since the arrival of European settlers in the early 17th century. Copies are available from the publisher, the University of Pittsburgh Press.