Department of History
Appalachian State University

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Tim Silver

Current Research Interests:
Environmental History of North America, with emphasis on the South and Southern Appalachia, History of America's National and State Parks
Ethnohistory of Early America

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Recent Publications:
Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003)
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Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains won the 2003 Ragan Old North State Award, given by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for Best Nonfiction book by a North Carolina Writer. Click here for details.

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains won the 2004 Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, given by the Southern Environmental Law Center in the book category. Click here for details.

Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains won the 2003-04 Wachovia Award for Environmental Research Achievement, and The Appalachian Outstanding Faculty Book Award, 2003-04

A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists and Slaves in South Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800 (Cambridge University Press,
1990). Click here for more information
 
"A Useful Arcadia: European Colonists as a Biotic Factor in Chesapeake Forests," in Philip D. Curtin, Grace Brush, and George Fischer, eds., The Chesapeake: The History of a Watershed (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).

"Big Tom Wilson," Wildlife in North Carolina, November, 1997.

"New Faces in an Old World," in Peter Nabakov, ed., Through Indian Eyes: The Untold Story of Native American People (New York: Reader's Digest General Books, 1996).

Upper Division Courses:
History 3531/4100/5206 Environmental History of North America
History 5002/3530 National Parks and American History
History 3222 Colonial and Revolutionary America