The Unlearned Lesson of Hurricane Maria: A Conversation with Stuart Schwartz
The historian who wrote the book on a half millennium of Caribbean hurricanes turns to the still-unfolding disaster in Puerto Rico.
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Watching That? Read This!
Many new movies and TV shows have complex things to say about the entanglement of culture, history, and environment. We recommend the best scholarship to help you decode them.
The Animals’ Guide to History: A Conversation with Stephanie Rutherford and Shari Wilcox
Two geographers, co-editors of the new volume Historical Animal Geographies, discuss how the animals around us shape our histories, our environments, and the stories we tell about the world.
The Water’s Not Fine: A Conversation with Anna Clark
The Flint water crisis is not over. Anna Clark’s new book tells the history of how we got here and how lead is here to stay.
Queer Camping, Then and Now
A cultural anthropologist explores how queer camping subverts masculine camping culture and supports new queer identities and communities in the outdoors.
In Search of a Democratic Agrarian Tradition: A Conversation with Pete Daniel and Jess Gilbert
What is the relationship between American agriculture and democracy? In this lively interview, Jess Gilbert and Pete Daniel get to the root of their disagreement over the role of the state and debate what effects the writing of agricultural history has on policy making.
A History of the Anthropocene in Objects
In this book teaser, objects like monkey wrenches and pesticide pumps help narrate a fragmentary history of the Anthropocene.
Singing the History of the Honey War between Missouri and Iowa
When Missouri and Iowa went to war in 1839, the only casualties were a few honey trees. Listen to this historical event come to life in an original song.
Behind the Beauty of Orchids, Centuries of Violence
Following orchids in The Farming of Bones, a novel by Edwidge Danticat, exposes tangled webs of care, violence, and the lasting power of the colonial imagination.
A Firsthand Account of Finding Nature on a U.S. Military Base
We need to expand our ideas of nature to include the battlefield. A historian explains why we should view soldiers’ daily lives as part of the natural world.
