2 Figure 3 Jenni Shiavone during her float trip down the Fox River (2022). Source: Shaw Local. The following book is a collective effort to know the Fox River as well. While Schiavone physically paddled the entire river to improve her ecological knowledge, this collection is an attempt to understand the long history of the Fox River, from its geologic origins at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to modern issues such as pollution or personhood rights for the river. Within this longue durée approach to the history of the Fox, each contributor designed a research project based on their own personality, background, and interests. We make no claims to completeness in our history of the Fox. Consider the following an incomplete, pointillist portrait of a river. Each of the following twenty-two essays is one set of well-paced brush strokes towards a full picture of the history of the Fox, which future scholars will hopefully help complete. This academic journey examines the history of the Fox River through a few lenses, beginning with the concepts of place and bioregional history. In his book Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, human geographer Yi-Fu Tuan defined the terms space and place with simple calculus. Ideology and cultural values, when added to blank spaces throughout the world, equal distinct humanized places. As Tuan wrote, “place is security,
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