In 2012, the Environment & Society Portal and Mark Stoll published the virtual exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book That Changed the World.” Version 2 of this virtual exhibition [February 2020] implements the Environment & Society Portal’s new responsive exhibition template and includes minor content updates from author Mark Stoll. This page provides a link to a PDF of the original version.

“Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, a Book that Changed the World” was created by Mark Stoll (2020, 2012) under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license. This refers only to the text and does not include image rights. Please click on an image to view its individual rights status. Thumbnails of the following images appear on the exhibition landing page:

This is Chapter 10 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.

About the Exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.

This is the further reading chapter of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.

This is Chapter 9 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.

This is Chapter 7 of the exhibition “Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world” by historian Mark Stoll.