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Painting of swamp with a bird on a branch

Swamps Can Protect Against Climate Change, If We Only Let Them

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?
by Annie Proulx via The New Yorker on June 27, 2022
A pumpkin salt gourd

Salt and Deep History in the Ohio Country

Early American salt makers exploited productive precedents established by generations of people who had engaged with salt resources for thousands of years.
by Annabel LaBrecque via Commonplace on January 1, 2022
One of Yellowstone's infamous hot springs.

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
by Richard Grant via Smithsonian on January 5, 2021
A landscape painting.

The Hotel at the Heart of the Hudson River School

An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.
by Rebecca Rego Barry via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 18, 2020
A boat landing in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Where the Waters Meet the People: A Bibliography of the Twin Cities

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.
by Avigail Oren via The Metropole on October 7, 2020

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 29, 2019
Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon National Park Turns 100: How a Place Once Called 'Valueless' Became Grand

As Grand Canyon National Park celebrates its centennial, it’s worth recalling the peculiar way the canyon became grand.
by Stephen Pyne via The Conversation on February 6, 2019
Map of western states with straight borders.

Why Are U.S. Borders Straight Lines?

The ever-shifting curve of shoreline and river is no match for the infinite, idealized straight line.
by Ed Simon, David E. Smith, Patrick Spero, Rosemary J. Coombe, Charles Desmond Dutrizac, Harald Bauder, Santa Arias, Geoffrey Kaeuper via JSTOR Daily on October 20, 2018

Paddling Down 'Disappointment River'

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.
by Brian Castner via Atlas Obscura on March 13, 2018
Aerial map showing New Orleans and steamboats on the Mississippi River.

How Humans Sank New Orleans

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.
by Richard Campanella via The Atlantic on February 6, 2018
Washington D.C. in 1860.

Draining the Swamp

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.
by Ted Widmer via The New Yorker on January 19, 2017
A pile of trash on the street in New York, 1911.
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The Pig Apple

The story of the thousands of free-range pigs who managed New York’s waste in the 1800s.
via BackStory on August 4, 2016

"Nature’s Nation": The Hudson River School and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1876

How American landscape painters, seen as old-fashioned and provincial, gained cultural power by glorifying expansionism.
by Linda Ferber via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on May 1, 2016
Interactive map of the U.S. Overland Trails, 1840 to 1860, showing cross-country migration routes.
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The Overland Trails 1840-1860

An interactive map of overland trails that settlers followed on their western journeys.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

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