Bridging the Past, Present, and Future
Idaho Heritage Trust, text by Adam M. Sowards, Bridging the Past, Present, and Future: Commemorating 25 Years of the Idaho Heritage Trust (Boise: Idaho Heritage Trust, 2016).
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Legacies produce all places. As a historian, I am perhaps more sensitive to that than most. I see multiple pasts, multiple narratives everywhere I turn, stretching from the immediate present back through years, decades, even millennia. The evidence is all around us if we bother to look and listen. Yet,
Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place
"Rexford Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West," in New Perspectives on the History of Life Sciences and Agriculture, eds. Denise Phillips and Sharon Kingsland (New York: Springer, 2015): 297-322.
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Law and Nature
"Law and Nature: The Famed Dissent of Justice William O. Douglas," High Country News (January 19, 2015): 6-7.
Should nature have standing to sue? - High Country NewsEven today, the natural world needs a co-plaintiff: us.High Country NewsAdam Sowards
Idaho's Place
Idaho's Place: A New History of the Gem State. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
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Idaho Book Award (Honorable Mention) – Idaho Library Association, 2015
The Past and Future of the Columbia River
With Paul W. Hirt, "The Past and the Future of the Columbia River," in The Columbia River Treaty Revisited: Transboundary River Governance in the Face of Uncertainty, ed. Barbara Cosens (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2012), 115-36.
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The Environmental Justice
The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2009.
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Association for American University Presses Books for Understanding, U.S. Supreme Court, 2010