Description: Jason Heppler is a historian and software developer at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
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I am a historian of the environment and capitalism in the twentieth century North American West and Great Plains. I am the senior developer-scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and a member of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . Consider subscribing to " Breve ," an occasional newsletter on digital history, design, creativity, and human knowledge. You
University of Oklahoma Press, 2024
Few places symbolize the twentieth century American West like Silicon Valley. Stretching between the communities of Palo Alto to San Jose, this dense California region is home to the nation’s most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. In the four decades following World War II, the region rapidly transformed from an agricultural economy to an industrial one fueled by government funding into defense-related research and development. Boosters of the new industrialization promised a modern, clean, and f