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.
Environmental History Now
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
Hoofbeats in the Archive: Historical Animals’ Roles in Constructing Historical Narratives
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.