By Adam Rabinowitz As part of IHS Climate in Context, Not Even Past is delighted to partner with Planet Texas 2050. Together we’ll publish a series of posts and articles designed to introduce the Planet Texas 2050 project with a particular focus on how historians and archaeologists are contributing to it. There was once a […]
IHS Climate in Context Talk: Thinking Historically About the Future of Energy and Climate
Institute for Historical Studies, Tuesday February 2, 2021 Dr. Paul Sabin will discuss lessons learned from the history of energy and climate, including how our historical understanding has changed in the past decade. How fast can we transform our energy system, and what factors will determine how this change unfolds? What historical insights might inform […]
IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) by Donald Worster
By Atar David and Rodrigo Salido Moulinié We are excited to present this roundtable review on the 42nd anniversary of Donald Worster’s Dust Bowl, a classic work in environmental history. *** BOOM, BUST, DUST Atar David Many Americans experienced the 1930s as a nightmare. In the urban centers, the stock market crash of 1929 and […]
IHS Climate in Context: Introducing Planet Texas 2050
By Mary Huber As part of IHS Climate in Context, Not Even Past is delighted to introduce a new collaboration with Planet Texas 2050. Together we’ll publish a series of posts and articles designed to introduce the Planet Texas 2050 project with a particular focus on how historians and archaeologists are contributing to it. In […]
IHS Climate in Context Feature: Texas Hurricanes: Past, Present, and Future
This article is written as part of the IHS Climate in Context series. Anyone who lives in Texas knows Hurricane Harvey. Harvey, which made landfall in southern Texas on August 25, 2017, was the last major hurricane (Category 3 storm or above) to hit the Lone Star State. The immediate recognition of Hurricane Harvey has […]
IHS Climate in Context: Climate by Proxy
by Melissa Charenko In 1998, Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes published a graph in a top scientific journal. The pattern shown by the graph has become a leading example of a “hockey stick graph.” The graph shows that, since the year 1000, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere slowly cooled. But, around 1900, temperatures […]
IHS Climate in Context Workshop: “From Smog to Climate Change? The Precarious Precedents for Curbing Greenhouse Gases in the U.S. and Mexico
Monday November 23, 2020 • Zoom Webinar I plan to present a draft article that looks at the roots and recent realities of greenhouse gas regulation in the U.S. versus Mexico. Comparing the control of environmental toxics (and other pollutants) instituted over 1970s in the United States with that of the 1990s in Mexico, the […]
IHS Climate in Context Talk: Ancient Trees in Modern Times
Talk: “Ancient Trees in Modern Times” by Jared Farmer, University of Pennsylvania Thursday December 3, 2020 • Zoom Webinar Just as modernity created antiquity, modern science created ancient trees. However, most old trees do not suit the needs of data-driven science. After looking for centuries for the “oldest living thing,” scientists finally found something both […]
IHS Climate in Context: Analyzing Trees as Historical Evidence
As the next iteration of the Institute for Historical Studies’ 2020-21 theme on “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented,” Dr. Jared Farmer, a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk on Thursday, December 3rd at 3:30 PM Central time. His talk entitled “Ancient Trees in Modern Times” will […]
IHS Climate in Context: New Scholarship on Climate, Plague, and the Medieval World
By Raymond Hyser As part of the Institute for Historical Studies’ Climate and Context lecture series, historian and specialist in disease, medicine, and public health, Dr. Nükhet Varlık presented her work on climate, migration, and plague during the early modern Ottoman Empire. Dr. Varlık is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark and an […]