BRINGING TO THANKSGIVING

I'm slow posting this, but Charles C. Mann wrote a fine op-ed piece in the New York Times for Thanksgiving discussing some of the ecological changes wrought by Europeans when they arrived in the Americas. He has a forthcoming book, but readers interested in a more detailed discussion of the transition in New England should find a copy of William Cronon's wonderful Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology in New England.