Mark Stoll's "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, A Book that Changed the World"
Click on the link for the virtual exhibition and begin reading the history timeline for Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. The website offers a very comprehensive history of the book, its author, and associated major events before, during, and after it was written. When you have finished with the Overview page, click "next” and go through each page in the timeline. Read the text, watch the videos, and listen to the podcasts. When you have finished, try to summarize how you think this book has helped to shape the history of the environment, and the environmental movement, over the past 50 years.
Click https://web.archive.org/web/20151120090142/http://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/silent-spring/overview link to open resource.