Cuyahoga Valley is a different type of national park. Oftentimes, the idea of the national park is associated with vast, open, wild places. Words like “wilderness” and “primeval” are used to describe them. Many possess a huge rugged backcountry, landscapes where you are unlikely to encounter people or roads for days. Those words would not […]

Will De Man
Will is a social studies teacher from Michigan who moonlights as an American conservation historian. He graduated from Calvin University with degrees in history, education, and classics, degrees he employs to teach ancient history to 7th graders and research the history of the national parks. He published his first book, A Short History of the National Parks: the Southeast, in 2023. You can find out more about him at nationalparkshistory.com and on Instagram @nationalparkhistory.
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