Centering 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
I 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
Pedro Nisser made me rethink the way in which the technological innovation in mining happened in Antioquia.
Sharp Words: Etiology in Action
Fomites. I jotted the word down. The task seemed simple enough.
The Environmental Roots of Jim Crow in Coastal South Carolina
This is the first of a pair of posts on the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.
Aerial Photography of Melbourne from 1945: A Peephole Into Past Technology & Landscapes
The 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
August 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”
From 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.