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Multimedia Library

The Multimedia Library is an open access digital archive, featuring collections of scholarly, artistic, and popular environmental materials.
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Archival Gems

Digitized treasures ranging from early modern broadsheets from the sixteenth century to Earth First! Movement writings of the 1980s and beyond, as well as selected material featured in Arcadia and our Virtual Exhibitions.
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Art & Graphics

Digitized collections of contemporary and historical art, and comics depicting the human-environment relationship. Collections include the Deutsches Museum’s Anthropocene Milestones comic strips and early modern broadsheets from the Bavarian State Library.
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Books & Profiles

Full-text books, excerpts, profiles, and book reviews about the human-environment relationship. Includes books, series, and reviews from academic publishers Berghahn Books, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, University of Pittsburgh Press, H- Environment, and others.
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Earth First! Movement Writings

An expanding archive of journals, pamphlets and other ephemera from the Earth First! movement and its many offshoots.
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Periodicals

Scholarly articles surrounding diverse topics on environment and society. Collections include Environmental Values, Environment and History, Global Environment, Environmental Humanities, Climate of the Past, International Review of Environmental History, and Conservation & Society.
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Places & Events

Short summaries of environmentally significant sites and historical events, viewable through a keyword explorer, map, or timeline. Each item contains a very short description, a thumbnail image, related links, and suggestions for further reading.
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Sound & Vision

Selected audiovisual content on the human-environment relationship, including collections on environmental films and film profiles, TED Talks, podcasts from Exploring Environmental History and Nature’s Past, and video portraits of fellows of the Rachel Carson Center.
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Web Resources

Profiles of environmental websites, blogs, networks and collaborations, project websites affiliated with RCC Fellows and staff, and other relevant resources on the environmental humanities.

About the Multimedia Library

The Environment & Society Portal’s Multimedia Library is a dynamic digital archive making images, podcasts, scholarly texts, documentary films, and other materials of the environmental humanities openly accessible to all users. The Multimedia Library is a growing resource to spark interest and inspire ideas for new projects. To recommend an item for inclusion in the Multimedia Library, use the button below to send us your suggestion, a comment about the item’s significance, and contact information for its copyright holder.

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Recent Multimedia Items

A Mist Connection: An Environmental History of the Laki Eruption of 1783 and Its Legacy
Kleemann, Katrin
“Organisms, Life Relations, and Evolution: Inter-Dependencies after Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid”
Etxeberria Agiriano, Arantza, David Cortés García, and Mikel Torres Aldave
Watchful Lives in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Whittaker, Catherine, Eveline Dürr, Jonathan Alderman, and Carolin Luiprecht
Mount Sacred: A Brief Global History of Holy Mountains since 1500
Mathieu, Jon
“The Shifting Baseline Syndrome as a Connective Concept for More Informed and Just Responses to...
Alleway, Heidi K., Emily S. Klein, Liz Cameron, Kristina Douglass, Ishtar Govia, Cornelia Guell, Michelle Lim, Libby Robin, and Ruth H. Thurstan
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The Environment & Society Portal is a project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. The center is supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. Read more about the Portal in English and in German.
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