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Environment

13 Ways of Looking: JFK’s Missing Wreath

Review of The Floating World: Masterpieces of Edo Japan at The Blanton Museum of Art

The 1878 Total Eclipse and Texas Curiosities

The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project

Fear and Lust in the Desert, or How Lies, Deception, and Trickery Made California a Date Palm Monopoly

Environmental Humanities: Five Non-History Books I Recommend from Comps

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

“We may expect nothing but shacks to be erected here”: An Environmental History of Downtown Austin’s Waterloo Park

Bears Ears National Monument

Bears Ears National Monument

Climate in Context Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Conference Report

Climate in Context Conference Report

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented Virtual Conference

Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented – Conference Program

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Bathsheba Demuth

Introducing the keynote speakers for Climate in Context – Naomi Oreskes

IHS Climate in Context – Pioneering Geoarchaeology: A Tribute to Dr. Karl W. Butzer

New Documentary – Origins of a Green Identity: Austin’s Conservation Pioneers

IHS Climate in Context: Environments and Borders: Where Do We Draw the Lines?

IHS Climate in Context - Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

IHS Climate in Context – Texas Deregulation and the 2021 Ice Storm

When Ghost Towns Lack Ghosts

IHS Climate in Context – Can We Leave It All Behind?

Introducing Planet Texas Header Image

IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050

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IHS Climate in Context Feature: Texas Hurricanes: Past, Present, and Future

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Primary Source: Getty McGuire’s Botanical Basics

IHS Climate in Context: Climate by Proxy

IHS Climate in Context: Analyzing Trees as Historical Evidence

Online Resources for the Study of Climate History and Suburban Life

IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World

Out of the Rubble: Doctors Strikes and State Repression in Guatemala’s Cold War

IHS Climate in Context: How Do Pandemics End? History Suggests Diseases Fade But Are Almost Never Truly Gone

IHS Climate in Context: Lessons from the Plague: Looking to the Historical Record

IHS Climate in Context: Earth and Outer Space in Environmental History

IHS Climate in Context: Understanding Resilience in the History of Climate Change

IHS Climate in Context: Exploring Scholarship on the Little Ice Age

IHS Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented

Gender & Sexuality: Collected Works from Not Even Past

His Whaleship: The Stories of Real, Authentic, Dead Whales

The Anthropocene and Environmental History

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

Underground Santiago: Sweet Waters Grown Salty

Death, Danger, and Identity at 12,000 Feet

Enclaves of Science, Outposts of Empire

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

Picture of a market stall in São Pedro, Brazil

History and Advocacy: Brazil in Turmoil

Remembering Chernobyl

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

Sowing the Seeds of Communism: Corn Wars in the USA

Picture of Quilombo of Ivaporunduva and the Ribeira de Iguape River in São Paulo, Brazil

The Public Historian: Giving it Back

Climate Change in History

Notes from the Field: Northeast Japan after the Tsunami

Boomtown, USA: An Historical Look at Fracking

UNESCO Designates Costa Rica’s Ancient Stone Balls a World Heritage Site

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

“Her Program’s Progress”

Winners! Student Essay Contest

Black and white image of the completed Austin dam from the 1890s

The Rise and Fall of the Austin Dam

Naming and Picturing New World Nature

Image looking down a valley of green shrubbery between two red-brown mountains

Big Bend – “Some sort of scenic beauty”

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