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Tracing memory threads Lauret Edith Savoy’s life and work: unearthing what is buried, re-membering what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. A woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, she writes about the stories we tell of the American land’s origins and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land. Her books include Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape; The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World; Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology; and Living with the Changing California Coast. She is a professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College, a photographer, and pilot. Winner of Mount Holyoke’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Lauret has also held fel ...more

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10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States (Fortune Magazine)

Trace is featured in Rachel King’s article “10 books on American history that actually reflect the United States” from July 4 in Fortune Magazine

“It’s often remarked that history is written by the winners. It’s also an unmistakable fact that most history lessons taught in schools are often told from white and male perspectives.

“While the Fourth of July is usually a day for both celebration and re

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Average rating: 4.13 · 796 ratings · 117 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.13 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret Savoy (Editor), Eldridge M. Moores (Editor), Gordon P. Eaton (Foreword) 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living with the Changing California Coast by Gary B. Griggs (Editor), Lauret Savoy, Kiki Patsch 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living With The California Coast by Gary B. Griggs, Lauret Savoy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation by Adam Rothman (Editor), Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Editor), Lauret Savoy (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Names on the Land carries a sympathetic tone regarding Native peoples, but it is the stories of “those who followed” from Europe that form its core. What troubles me is how some readers embrace these namings as America’s history, “our” heritage, without asking if there might be other narratives, too. Stewart considers “the naming that was before history” in his first chapter, but not so much the importance of place-making in defining Indigenous traditions and identities in a storied land over time.”
― Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

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“Odysseus said, “I belong in the place of my departure and I belong in the place that is my destination”
― Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

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