About Jason Newton

Jason L. Newton  is a post-doctoral fellow in the history of capitalism and the environment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His book manuscript, "Cutover Capitalism: The Industrialization of the Northern Forest, 1850-1950," is a history of the changing types of labor performed by people, trees, and the landscape in the American Northeast as that area industrialized. He has also published on nature, race, and immigration. He teaches classes on capitalism and the environment.

Jason L. Newton  is a post-doctoral fellow in the history of capitalism and the environment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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NBN Episodes hosted by Jason:

Michael G. Hillard, "Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine's Mighty Paper Industry" (Cornell UP, 2021)

July 27, 2021

Shredding Paper

Michael G. Hillard
Hosted by Jason Newton

From the early twentieth century until the 1960s, Maine led the nation in paper production. The state could have earned a reputation as the Detroit of…