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Articles tagged with this keyword discuss the study of environmental history, and how research and writing about environmental history have changed over time.
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Hundreds of stampeders’ tents on the Tr’ochëk site and the west bank of the Klondike River (1898).

Historical Mining and Contemporary Conflict: Lessons from the Klondike

The local indigenous population was most affected by environmental change resulting from mining in the Klondike.
by Heather Green via NiCHE on May 2, 2018
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The Greatest American Historian You've Never Heard Of

An appreciation of Alfred Crosby, who coined the term "Columbian exchange."
by Benjamin Breen on April 12, 2018

U.S. Wildfire Causes 1980-2016

Lighting, trash burning, powerlines, playing with matches – how do they rank as causes of wildfire?
by Jill Hubley via Jill Hubley.com on December 7, 2017

The 1938 Hurricane That Revived New England's Fall Colors

An epic natural disaster restored the forest of an earlier America.
by Stephen Long via What It Means to Be American on September 21, 2017
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Was It Bad Luck or Climate Change?

Our circumstances have changed a lot since early colonial times. Unfortunately, our thinking about climate hasn’t changed enough.
by Sam White via HNN on September 17, 2017

A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.
by Michael Grunwald via Politico Magazine on September 8, 2017

Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons

Like many facets of the American past, mass incarceration looks different if we consider it through the lens of environmental history.
by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Process: A Blog for American History on June 22, 2017

Toxic Legacy: New Boom Highlights Oil’s Hundred-Year Environmental History in West Texas

The ecological history of West Texas challenges the narrative of the region's rugged independence.
by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre via Process: A Blog for American History on May 9, 2017

What U.S. Cities Looked Like Before the EPA

Whatever the Trump administration does with Environmental Protection Agency, its urban legacy is clear.
by Andrew Small via CityLab on March 2, 2017

American Pastoral

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.
by Charles Petersen via n+1 on February 26, 2010

American Green

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
by Ted Steinberg via Longreads on March 15, 2006
John Muir

John Muir's 1897 Case for Saving America's Forests

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools—only Uncle Sam can do that."
by John Muir via The Atlantic on August 1, 1897
Watercolor of a whale destroying a boat of whalers.

Captain Joy’s Last Voyage

What a whaling captain’s logbook can teach us about sperm whales and our oceans.
by Richard King, Kripa Bansal, Mia Hines, Carter Myers-Brown, Finn Warner, Mallory Hoffbeck, Karan Kunwar via Earth Island Journal on June 2, 2023
Chuquicamata in Chile

The Transformative and Hungry Technologies of Copper Mining

Our own world is built from copper, and so too will future worlds be.
by Robrecht Declercq, Duncan Money via Edge Effects on March 16, 2023
Old botanical book open to a page titled "Cotton Wood," with a color plate of cottonwood leaves.

Plant of the Month: Poplar

Poplar—ubiquitous in timber, landscape design, and Indigenous medicines—holds new promise in recuperating damaged ecosystems.
by May Wang, Christina D. Wood via JSTOR Daily on June 1, 2022
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Best History Writing of 2021

Bunk's American History Top 40.
by Tony Field on January 26, 2022
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We’re Catching More Diseases From Wild Animals, and It’s Our Fault.

Scientists explain how viruses, like Covid-19, spill over from animals to people, and what we must do to stop the next pandemic.
via Retro Report on January 27, 2021
Postcard of Wilshire Boulevard

Radical Movements in 1960s L.A.

A review of "Set The Night on Fire", an inspiring book that points to a new generation of activists who remain unbowed by conservative historiographies.
by Ryan Reft via The Metropole on January 11, 2021

How Is a Disaster Made?

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
by Andy Horowitz via Lapham’s Quarterly on July 7, 2020

A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

Responding to “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” by Celeste Henery.
by Tyler D. Parry via Black Perspectives on January 13, 2020
Art installation, "Public Soil Memory for the Plantationocene" at the Sandy Spring Museum

How the Soil Remembers Plantation Slavery

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.
by R. L. Martens, BII Robertson via Edge Effects on March 28, 2019

Best American History Reads of 2018

Bunk's editor shares some of his favorite pieces from the year.
by Tony Field via Medium on January 8, 2019
illustration of orange groves with snow-capped mountains in the distance

The Dreams and Myths That Sold LA

How city leaders and real estate barons used sunshine and oranges to market Los Angeles.
by Hadley Meares via Curbed on May 24, 2018
Cacti in a field

The Lost Savannas of Arizona

Until about 100 years ago, grasses up to two feet high blanketed swaths of the Sonoran Desert.
by David E. Brown via Zócalo Public Square on November 15, 2014
Black and white photo of John Muir sitting on a rock

John Muir's Literary Science

The writings of the Scottish-born American naturalist John Muir are known for their scientific acumen as well as for their rhapsodic flights.
by Terry Gifford via The Public Domain Review on June 9, 2011

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