Reading Time: 6 minutesAs Andrea Eidinger’s reflections on ActiveHistory.ca fit so well with our #problemsofplace series, we came together to also make it into a post for EHN.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
“Probably New to Science”: Locating Indigenous Knowledge in Colonial Archives
Reading Time: 5 minutesA few weeks ago, to acquaint students with primary sources and the process of reading archival materials “against the grain,” I brought to class a few sample sources from my own research. Sometimes just a few letters can offer revealing lenses into the past.
Intersections between Environmental Justice and Site-Specific Performance
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the fascinating things about site-specific performance in its broadest sense is that it helps us to think inclusively about bodies and the environments in which they are embedded.
Connecting Audiences to Environmental History: The General Survey Course
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhy is environmental history not more “mainstream”? What are your ideas for incorporating the environment and environmental history into survey courses?
The Unanswered Call for Transnational Mining History
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt will be news to no one that state-based explanations for the past just don’t fire the historical imagination like they used to and that environmental historians have been at the forefront of a transnational shift.
