Hurricane Katrina and the damage next time
(November 2006)
Books
- Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, by Louis Warren, (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)
- A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans, by Ari Kelman (University of California Press, 2003)
- American Environmental History, by Louis Warren (Blackwell, 2003) (editor)
- The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth Century America, by Louis Warren (Yale University Press, 1997)
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- "Grant helps UC Davis boost Middle East, South Asia education," UC Davis News Service, 5.30.06
Web sites and videos
- Louis Warren's Web page
- Ari Kelman's Web page
- "Cody's Wild West Shows," NewsWatch, 2.13.06 (Real One video)
- "Buffalo Bill Cody," NewsWatch, 2.6.06 (Real One video)
- "Cody the Story Teller," NewsWatch, 2.6.06 (Real One video)
- "New Book Says Public Liked William Cody's Ability to Buffalo Them," UC Davis News Service, 10.11.05
Profiles
Louis Warren, the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History
Warren teaches and writes about particulars of 20th century Western U.S. history: immigration, environmental issues and demographic impacts. A specialist in environmental history, Warren is an authority on the history of conflicts between hunting and animal rights, no-growth and slowth-growth movements, and Buffalo Bill Cody's legacy.
He acclaimed book, Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show (Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), has won numerous awards, including: the 2007 Beveridge Prize from the American Historical Association, the Western Writers of America Spur Award in 2005 and the 2005 Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize. He also wrote The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1997), which won the Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Book from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center.
Contact: Louis Warren, History, (530) 752-1633, lswarren@ucdavis.edu
Ari Kelman, associate professor of history at UC Davis
Kelman specializes in urban studies and the history of big cities and urban policies as well as the memorialization of events. Most recently, he has been involved in the ongoing national discussion about the causes and consequences of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. He has also been an active participant in the debate about rebuilding the city. Kelman studies the effects of disasters and reconstruction such as 9/11 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
In his 2003 book, A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (University of California Press, 2003), Kelman discusses the conflict between public and private control of the river, and describes how floods, disease and evolving technology have impacted the river and the city. The book won the 2004 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award.
He is currently writing a book titled A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek and the Civil War in the New West, about differing memories regarding a Native American massacre in the 1860s.
Contact: Ari Kelman, History, (530) 752-1634, akelman@ucdavis.edu