The Big Blowup: Fire’s American Century

STEPHEN PYNE is the world’s foremost historian of fire.
A Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University, and the author of twenty books on environmental history and the histories of science and exploration, Pyne is a brilliant and irreverent commentator on the role of fire in societies around the world.

On October 7th, from 3:30-4:45 PM, in Buchanan 1930, he will offer his insights from more than three decades of research and writing on the history, geography, ecology, politics, and culture of wildfire. His talk will begin with the Big Blowup of August 1910, a fire that almost exactly a century ago altered the course of U.S. history.

This lecture is sponsored by the UCSB Department of History’s Center for Science and Society and the UCSB Department of Geography.

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