Scot McFarlane is the founder of the Oxbow History Company. He was previously a researcher at the American Historical Association and the inaugural research scholar for Historic New England’s Recovering New England’s Voices initiative. As a river historian, McFarlane works with teachers, conservationists, and historians to help students learn American history through the history of rivers. He has published several articles on people’s relationship to waterways in publications that include Environmental History and the Journal of Slavery and Abolition.