Richard B Megraw Author

Brian Black is Head of the Division of Arts and Humanities and Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Penn State Altoona. His articles on preservation and environmental history have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Civil War History, and USA Today, among others. He is the author and editor of several books, including Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds and the four-volume Climate Change: An Encyclopedia of History and Science.

Richard B. Megraw is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama and the author of Confronting Modernity: Art and Society in Louisiana.