“Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision,” an exhibit curated by Carla Baricz and James Kessenides, is on display on the second floor of Yale University’s Beinecke Library until October 4, 2026. In late […]
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Disruptive Reciprocity: A Review of The US Military and the Pacific Environment
The edited volume explores how the Pacific environment influences and disrupts US military operations.
Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of U.S. Environmental Law: A Review
In Lessons for a Warming Planet: A Vital History of US Environmental Law, authors Alejandro E. Camacho and Brigham Daniels probe environmental legal history to understand the law’s troubled relationship to environmental degradation and protection, while uncovering the legal change that is needed to address the most pressing environmental challenges of our era, such as climate change.
The Origins of Geoengineering: A Review of Green Lands for White Men
McKittrick explores how seemingly peripheral, outlandish ideas become part of the mainstream popular and scientific imagination.
How to Publish an Edited Collection
This essay is my attempt to share some of what I know in the hopes that more historians will take up this useful and fulfilling work.
Of Ferrets and Phantoms
This nonfiction piece was the inspiration for a journal article about writing amidst extinction for a forthcoming special issue of Cultural Geographies.
Rethinking Incomplete Metaphors for the Earth System
We often hear about the Anthropocene, but what if it’s not the only way to understand our impact on Earth? Ideas like the noosphere and technosphere offer striking new ways to see humanity’s role on Earth.
This is Fine: Studying Intersectional US Environmental History While it Burns Around Us
It is really hard to focus on the work in front of you when your field is burning around you.
Sex Is a History: A Review of Performance all the Way Down by Richard O. Prum
As environmental historians, we can use this example to reaffirm the centrality of embodied humans at the centre of our narratives.