Phoebe Young, an environmental and cultural historian in the Department of History, spent over 18 years studying what it means to camp. Her new book released Tuesday, titled, Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement, takes a closer look at a 150-year history of camping––how it taps into some of our core American beliefs about nature and citizenship, and why some forms of camping became mainstream over time and others became marginalized.

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