Secondary Sources

"Arago: 17-cent Carson," Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 1981. https://arago.si.edu/category_2029372.html

I learned about the Postage Stamp issued in Rachel Carson's honor.

Brinkley, Douglas. Audubon website, “Rachel Carson and JFK, an Environmental Tag Team” May-June 2012.

www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2012/rachel-carson-and-jfk-environmental-tag-team

History on support from President Kennedy on getting public to read Silent Spring and be concerned about

the environment.

Chesapeake Bay Program, "Bald Eagles." U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed 19 April 2020. www.chesapeakebay.net/state/bald_eagles

This program's website has interesting material about wildlife habitat recovery, including the comeback of the Eagle.

Fabiny, Sarah. Who Was Rachel Carson? Grosset & Dunlap, 2014.

This book gave me great insight to the life of Rachel Carson and her accomplishments.

Friederici, Peter. "Is DDT Here to Stay?" Audobon, May-June 2012. www.audubon.org/magazine/may-june-2012/is-ddt-here-stay

The article was interesting and gave me information about the 1945 Saturday Evening Post article

"How Magic is DDT." I also found the picture of DDT being sprayed at Jones Beach State Park

in 1945 (credit Bettman/Corbis) to represent how widespread spraying of chemicals had gotten

out of control.

Ganzel, Bill. “Farming in the 1940s.” Ganzel Group, 2007.

https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/intro/

History of agriculture in US after World War II gave me a good understanding of the benefits of DDT

at the time and its role in improving the US economy.

Ganzel, Bill. "The Golden Age of Pesticides." Farming in the 1950's and 60's. Ganzel Group, 2007.

https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe50s/intro/

History of agriculture in US after World War II gave me a good understanding of the history of DDT

use at the time and its role in improving the US economy.

Gessner, David. “Rachel's War.” Sierra Club, The National Magazine of the Sierra Club, 15 Mar. 2016,

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/green-life/rachels-war

Learned great history thru an informative illustration of Rachel Carson's efforts to inform the world

thru publishing Silent Spring and her challenges in trying to make a difference. Posted the cartoon on this

website as a PDF.

Griswold, Eliza. "How 'Silent Spring' Ignited the Environmental Movement," The New York Times Magazine, 21 September

2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/how-silent-spring-ignited-the-environmental-movement.html

Material written to honor the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring publication, in 2012, was very informative.

Isenberg, Robert. "Looking Back 50 Years to the Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring", E-The Environmental Magazine, 10 September 2012.

https://emagazine.com/rachel-carson-silent-spring/

Great history written about Rachel Carson's life and the challenges she faced in publishing Silent Spring.

Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009

Gained good history on Rachel Carson's inner thoughts and perspectives.

Lear, Linda. “Timeline: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson.”

www.rachelcarson.org/TimelineList.aspx

Incorporated this in the website as it gives a good overview of Rachel Carson's life, career and legacy.

Leicester, Henry. "Paul Muller," from Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

at Encyclopedia.com, updated 25 April 2020.

This article about the scientist who received a Nobel Prize for DDT was helpful to understand why DDT was developed and used by so many.

Musil, Robert K., Personal Interview, President and CEO of Rachel Carson Council, 15 January 2020.

I learned about Rachel Carson's passion for nature and the Rachel Carson Council's continued efforts to protect the environment

and teach people what they can do to help.

Nevenic, Anna. Out of the Shadows: American Women Who Change the World. Rave Publishing, 2005. Rachel Carson, The

Guru of the Environment pp. 85-92.

History on Rachel Carson growing up in Springdale, PA and timeline.

“Pollution and the Environmental Movement," Benefits and Risks of the Pesticide DDT, American Masters—A Fierce Green Fire,

WNET Education, David Wisnieski, 2015,

www.pbslearningmedia.org/credits/aml15.sci.env.pollution/#.XjaEdC2ZNBw

Media Clip about concern on pollution led to the passing of Major environmental laws.

Ponogos, Tim. "Use of Pesticides: Report of the President's Special Advisory Committee Report, 15 May 1963," Timpanogos Blog link to full report,

https://timpanogos.blog/2012/12/10/

Looked at the full transcript of the President's Advisory Committee on the use of chemicals which supports

Rachel Carson's book.

"Rachel Carson's Statement Before Congress, 1963," Rachel Carson Society.org, 4 June 1963,

www.printfriendly.com/p/g/464S3C

Read and quoted from Rachel Carson's speech before U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Reorganization and

International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations.

“Rachel Carson: National Wildlife Refuge: Maine.” History of the Refuge and Rachel Carson Biography and Excerpts. U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Services. Accessed January 3, 2020. www.fws.gov/refuge/Rachel_Carson/about/rachelcarson.html

History and Images of Rachel Carson.

“Rachel Carson: Instilling A Sense of Wonder.” Rachel Carson: A Conservation Legend. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

Accessed January 3, 2020. www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/

History and Images of Rachel Carson.

Rafferty, John P. "The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution," 2020 Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Inc.

Accessed 15 April 2020. www.britannica.com/story/the-rise-of-the-machines-pros-and-cons-of-the-industrial-revolution

Gained insight on the history of how the industrial revolution and technological change brought about water

and air pollution in the United States in the early 20th Century.

Sisson, Stephanie Roth. Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement. Roaring Brook Press, 2018.

This book made the history of Rachel Carson's career and findings very easy to understand. I enjoyed reading it and used

a food chain chart from here that showed the impact of DDT on wildlife.

Stoll, Mark. "Legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring," The Environment and Society Portal, The Rachel Carson Center for

Environment and Society, Accessed 4 January 2020.

www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/rachel-carsons-silent-spring/legacy-rachel-carsons-silent-spring

Very valuable information on this site with helpful comments.

Swaby, Rachel. Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World. Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam

Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), 2015, pp 75-79.

This was so great to see a summary of Rachel Carson's life and her importance as a woman in the science

field.

Wheeler, Jill C. Rachel Carson: Extraordinary Environmentalist. ABDO Pub. Company, 2013.

This book helped me better understand why Rachel Carson became a scientist, some of the interesting work

she did during her career and how it led to her writing Silent Spring.

Wood, Matt. "Graduate students use museum collections to track soot from black carbon. October 10, 2017. "

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/soot-covered-birds-provide-clues-20th-century-pollution.

 This was a great article showing the impact of pollution on birds. The study on pollution and black carbon linked the comparison

of museum collected bird feathers in 1903 and 1904 to those specimens from 1916 and 1922.

Rachel Carson: Catalyst of the Environmental Movement