Donald Worster

Donald Worster is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Kansas. His latest book, Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Fertility and Innovation Have Changed Humankind and the Earth, will be published in October 2025.

Farmed Out

The uncertain future of the nation’s heartland

By Donald Worster | Monday June 2, 2025

Dollars Versus Degrees

Are business interests alone to blame for global warming?

By Donald Worster | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Native Wisdom

A celebration of the rich spiritual imagination of tribal peoples

By Donald Worster | Monday December 7, 2020

Historians and Nature

By Donald Worster | Monday March 1, 2010

Environmentalism for Outsiders

By Donald Worster | Friday September 1, 2006

A Long Cold View of History

How ice, worms, and dirt made us what we are today

By Donald Worster | Tuesday March 1, 2005

Farmed Out

By Donald Worster | Monday June 2, 2025

Dollars Versus Degrees

By Donald Worster | Tuesday March 1, 2022

Native Wisdom

By Donald Worster | Monday December 7, 2020

Historians and Nature

By Donald Worster | Monday March 1, 2010

Environmentalism for Outsiders

By Donald Worster | Friday September 1, 2006

A Long Cold View of History

By Donald Worster | Tuesday March 1, 2005

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