Phoebe S.K. Young on the Hidden History of Camping in America

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Phoebe S.K. Young, the author of "Camping Grounds", to discuss the connection between camping as a familiar recreational pastime and sleeping outside for functional needs and political purposes.

Young is a historian of the 19th and 20th-century U.S. with interests in culture, the environment, public memory, and the American West. Her current work concerns the history of camping and sleeping outside and examines the shifting understandings of nature as public space. Future interests concern student learning, pedagogy, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History.