In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon is interviewed on his new book, The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Judkin Browning and Timothy Silver are interviewed on their new book, An Environmental History of the Civil War.
Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Munns is interviewed on his new book, Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War.
This article explores Swedish consular secretary Jakob Gråberg’s writings on the plague in Morocco in 1819.
A selection of letters by Lily B. Stearns. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition American Land Rush by Sara Gregg.
This article looks at extreme droughts in Istanbul to understand the nineteenth-century changes in the Ottoman State.
A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.
Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”
Excerpt from Bénédicte Boisseron’s book Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question.
