Joshua Blu Buhs Papers
Scope and Contents
Contains notes, correspondence, government reports, and industry reports regarding imported fire ants. Joshua Blu Buhs assembled the contents of this collection for research purposes. Some of the items were originally in the possession of Murray Blum, an entomologist at the University of Georgia who was involved in the fire ant program from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
Dates
- 1948-1990s
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
A scholar of the overlap of politics, biology, and ecology in twentieth-century America, Joshua Blu Buhs has written articles that have appeared in Isis, Environmental History, The World of Genetics, and Journal of the History of Biology (Source: University of Chicago Press). He is author of The Fire Ant Wars: Nature, Science, and Public Policy in Twentieth-Century America.
Extent
1.5 Cubic Feet (1 RC box 1 Doc box)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to the Joshua Blu Buhs Papers
- Author
- Processed by: Tommy C. Brown Digitized by: Noah Biblis
- Date
- 2009-11-03; 2020-09-01
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
