Kenneth J. Bindas

Kenneth Bindas and seven of his students from Kent State University drew upon a wide variety of government documents, oral histories, and other primary sources to place the construction of the Reserve within the larger context of modernism and the emerging 1930s movements whose goals were to show more protect and open up natural areas. This case study provides an example of the design, manipulation, and construction used to create so many Civilian Conservation Corps environments. Kenneth J. Bindas is professor and chair of the Department of History at Kent State University. He is the author of Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South, Swing: That Modern Sound, and All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. show less