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The Anthropocene and Environmental History

By Jesse Ritner If you open a textbook on geology and flip through to the chapter on geological time it will tell you we are currently living in the epoch of the Holocene.  The Holocene started approximately 10,000 years before present with the end of the last ice age.  However, research by a diverse array […]

March 18, 2019

The Empire of the Dandelion: Environmental History in Al Crosby’s Footsteps

By Megan Raby This essay is adapted from Dr. Raby’s remarks at a symposium to honor Al Crosby that was sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies at UT Austin on February 4, 2019. Alfred Crosby’s work has been with me for a long time––actually longer than I can remember. I routinely assign Ecological Imperialism […]

February 13, 2019

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

  By Nathan Stone Preso en su lecho mi rio pasa, pero se acerca su libertad. Sus aguas dulces ya son saladas; ya no eres rio, eres el mar. A prisoner within its banks, my river rolls on, soon to find freedom. Your sweet waters now have grown salty; you’re no river, now, you are […]

October 15, 2018

Death, Danger, and Identity at 12,000 Feet

by Jesse Ritner On February 1, 1894, Frank Cook stumbled down from the Elk Mountain range, passed through the frozen town of Ashcroft, and trudging through the deep Colorado snow arrived in Aspen, Colorado.  His mining partner, Mr. Spake, was dead. Mining accidents were common in late nineteenth-century Colorado.  Mr. Cook, likely weary and cold […]

April 16, 2018

For Native Americans, Land Is More Than Just the Ground Beneath Their Feet

By Kelli Mosteller This article originally appeared in The Atlantic on September 17, 2016.  Thousands of Native American protesters are currently fighting against the proposed construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. They are doing more than just trying to protect their land. They are fighting for their culture—and, as the Ojibwe activist Winona LaDuke […]

October 26, 2016

US Survey Course: The American West, Native Americans, and Environmental History

During the summer of 2016, we will be bringing together our previously published articles, book reviews, and podcasts on key themes and periods in the history of the USA. Each grouping is designed to correspond to the core areas of the US History Survey Courses taken by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin.

June 28, 2016

Remembering Chernobyl

In the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, Chernobyl reactor number four experienced a series of explosions that resulted in the world’s most devastating nuclear disaster to date.

April 26, 2016

Diasporic Charity and Salonica’s Jewish Community after the Fire of 1917

The minutes of a 1922 meeting of the Council of the Jewish Community of Salonica, today’s Thessaloniki in Greece, recorded a cordial but contentious discussion.

April 6, 2016

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Today we often associate hybrid or genetically modified corn with agricultural monopolies, big business, and capitalism, in the early Cold War some feared that the rise of hybrid corn would sow the seeds of Communism in the United States.

March 2, 2016

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Edward Shore recounts the torture of writer’s block and how a love for doing public scholarship helped him to overcome it. He underscores the need for historians to engage the public and to use scholarship for the advancement of social justice. He recalls his experience doing fieldwork for his dissertation on the history of the Quilombo Movement in the Atlantic Rainforest of southern São Paulo.

January 20, 2016

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