Reading Time: 3 minutesSome elements of gaming worlds are imaginary, and they can give insight into what’s around the game builders—or their hopes of what a better world looks like.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Hoofbeats in the Archive: Historical Animals’ Roles in Constructing Historical Narratives
Reading Time: 4 minutesCentering horses in historical narratives offers scholars a new lens for examining the past and our relationship with it.
Crip Cows?: Confronting Disabled Animals in the Archive
Reading Time: 4 minutesI met Katie in Washington, D.C. this summer in a box of files from the Smithsonian Institute Archives.
Taming the Rivers: Science on the Making in the Alluvial Gold Mines in Nineteenth-Century Antioquia, Colombia
Reading Time: 4 minutesPedro Nisser made me rethink the way in which the technological innovation in mining happened in Antioquia.
Sharp Words: Etiology in Action
Reading Time: 5 minutesFomites. I jotted the word down. The task seemed simple enough.
Aerial Photography of Melbourne from 1945: A Peephole Into Past Technology & Landscapes
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe most surprising, and interesting find during my PhD candidature has been the historical aerial photography that is available for the city of Melbourne.
Documenting Environmental History: Using Government Sources to Understand Louisiana’s Coastal Erosion Crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutesAugust 29, 2018, marked the thirteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall near the border between Louisiana and Mississippi.
29 November 1783: The Night the US East Coast was Awoken by “a small shock of an earthquake”
Reading Time: 5 minutesFrom Boston to Philadelphia, in late 1783 diarists wrote about an earthquake that awoke them late at night, rattled windows, and threw china off the shelves.