One 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.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Category: #envhistmatters
Connecting Audiences to Environmental History: The General Survey Course
Why 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
It 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.
Archived in the Asphalt: An Abridged History of LA, Pleistocene to Present
The La Brea Tar Pits have yielded the most extensive record of a Pleistocene environment on the planet. Yet the pits are also a misnomer, for they are an artifact of nineteenth-century asphalt mining and twentieth-century fossil excavations.
The Life of Air: A Meditation on Studying the Unseen
From the south-facing window of my third floor apartment, I sometimes see the sunrise.
Acacias in Amboseli: Trees as Historical Memory in African Environmental History
There are certain questions that have given my research on the history of the Ilkisongo Maasai and conservation a sense of urgency.
Notes from the Field: Community-Based Research in the Apple Orchards of Boulder County
A few miles northeast of Boulder, CO lies the Midwest in miniature—and where our crew from the Boulder Apple Tree Project sampled trees from Sarah’s orchard.
“The White Farmers is pregeded agence the poor colored people”: Refuting the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry
This is the second half of a two-part series on the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
Viewing Virtual Worlds: What Can Video Games Teach Us About Environmental History?
Some 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.