Fixing the Sky

Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.

James Rodger Fleming is professor of science, technology, and society at Colby College and a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Meteorological Society. He recently held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution and the AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship, both while being a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.