The Society for Military History

The Graduate Center, CUNY

Benjamin L. Carp

Environmental history
American Revolution

Making Nature's Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775-1783

Blake McGready is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He studies the environmental legacy of the American Revolution. His dissertation, “Making Nature’s Nation: The Revolutionary War and Environmental Interdependence in New York, 1775-1783,” examines how revolutionary warfare transformed American understandings of the natural, nonhuman world. Blake serves as a co-chair of the CUNY Early American Republic Seminar (EARS). His previous work has been published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies and in the Journal of the American Revolution Annual Volume series. He works at The Gotham Center for New York City History, and previously has worked for the National Park Service.