Four Greco-Roman Perspectives on Humans and the Environment
What did ancient people think about human impacts on the environment? Four passages offer perspectives from Greece and Rome.
What did ancient people think about human impacts on the environment? Four passages offer perspectives from Greece and Rome.
Long-forgotten film footage launches a collaborative recollection of history and memory, and gives new meaning to the past in post-conflict Liberia.
A late eighteenth-century painting of a moment that never happened illuminates our complex struggles with how to “deal with” the past.
Drawing from presentations at the recent meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Seattle, a historian, an ecologist, and a political scientist bring their different perspectives to bear on central questions of knowledge stirred by Chernobyl. What have we learned, or not?
A new website serves as a resource for educators in the global humanities.
How Emily Dickinson might tell the story of the Anthropocene.
Recent news of restoration work at Niagara Falls provides an opportunity to reflect on how symbolic American landscapes become meaningful despite constant change.
An interview with Dr. Evan Friss about the 1890s bicycling revolution in the United States.
A special edition of our February 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board, honoring Black History Month.
A few announcements plus January 2016 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.