Aaron Sachs (born 1969) is an Americanhistorian andCornell University professor who primarily studies American environmental and cultural history.

He graduated fromHarvard University in 1992 with a B.A. in history and literature, and fromYale University, with a Ph.D. in American Studies, in 2004. He currently is Professor of History and American Studies atCornell University inIthaca, New York.^[1]

• 2007Frederick Jackson Turner Award honorable mention.
• 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Finalist.^[2]

• Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change (New York University Press, 2023)ISBN 1479819395
• Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton University Press, 2022)ISBN 9780691215419
• Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013)
• "Special Topics in Calamity History",Reviews in American History, Volume 35, Number 3, September 2007, pp. 453–463
• The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. Viking. 2006.ISBN 978-0-14-311192-4. (reprint Penguin 2007)

5. Thoreau Society Bulletin,A Different Kind of Wildness: Environmental Humor and Cultural Resilience. Number 104, Winter 2019.

• "The Humboldt Current: Science, Adventure, and Environmentalism with author Aaron Sachs",World's Fair, November 5, 2007, Benjamin Cohen

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