Cottonwood Grove in the Fisher Pastures. Photo by: Richard. People, outside of academia, often ask me what Environmental History is and why I study it instead of, say, the Revolution, the Civil War, or World War II (the most commonly referenced histories). Most of the time, I am at a loss about how to respond to their questions. […]
The smartphone, in my case the iPhone, is the marvel of the digital/personal front of the early 21st century. I feel that I have now — as a purported digital historian (though I think that is a suspect term in its own right) — finally engaged the 21st century in its potential. Of course, as with other tech breakthroughs of the past (the auto, […]
At any location on earth, as the rock record goes down into time and out into earlier geographies it touches upon tens of hundreds of stories, wherein the face of the earth often changed, changed utterly, and changed again, like the face of a crackling fire. The rock beside the road exposes one or two levels […]