The Historical Foundations of Abundance
Historians are so obsessed with discerning or making new “turns” these days that it may…
Browsing: Environment
Lifting the Redwood Curtain
Could you briefly describe your dissertation? My dissertation examines the history leading up to the…
Finding its Way: Thoughts on Environmental History
The more people who want to talk about nature, the harder it seems to say…
Has Environmental History Lost Its Way?
Road kill. Plywood. Gas Masks. Black soil. These were among the myriad topics covered during…
Stuart Schwartz: Sea of Storms
Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University and…
Mary E. Mendoza on the U.S.–Mexico Border Fence Construction
Mary E. Mendoza is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Davis and a…
Stephen Macekura on Environmentalism and Development
Stephen Macekura is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Indiana University. His first book, Of Limits and…