Author: Catherine McNeur

Catherine McNeur is a Professor of History at Portland State University. She is the award-winning author of Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard University Press, 2014) and Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023). She is now working on a book about the history of Portland’s parks and has been sharing her research on Instagram and TikTok through mini-documentaries.