Alfred "Al" Runte (April 16, 1947 in New York) is an environmental historian and former college educator from Seattle who ran for mayor of Seattle in 2005.
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Ari Kelman is a historian and professor at the University of California, Davis, where he studies the American Civil War, Western, Native American, and environmental history.
Major subject areas in the collections include: book arts, environmental history, ethnic studies, fine printing, graphic arts, Julia Morgan's and John Steinbeck's first editions, landscape architecture in California, Robinson Jeffers' first editions, San Luis Obispo regional history, social history, William Randolph Hearst, and San Simeon.
Before arriving at Roosevelt University, Zimring taught a variety of environmental history seminars at Oberlin College, and history surveys at Michigan Technological University and the University of Canterbury.
Pyne, Stephen J. (1997) Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World.
Thomas Wellock from Central Washington University recommended the book "for all libraries and students of politics, government bureaucracy, and environmental history".