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The Mystery of the Merganser
How Australian historical documents resolved questions about an unusual merganser specimen from Korea at the American Museum of Natural History.
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“The Love of the Chase Is an Inherent Delight in Man”: Hunting and Masculine Emotions in the Victorian Zoologist’s Travel Memoir
Through a reading of two Victorian travel memoirs, Will Abberley demonstrates the contradictions in Victorian attitudes towards masculinity, nature, and emotions.
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Transformation of Landscapes | Human-Nature Relations in German Literature: A Curated Stroll
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Time to Eat the Dogs
Time to Eat the Dogs is a blog about science, history, and exploration. It aims to broaden the conversation beyond the limits of the history of science.
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Landschaftsveränderungen | Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke discusses texts that register transformations of landscapes or take a position on their causes. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Connection to Nature: The Experience of the Right of Public Access
Outdoor recreational access in the form of Swedish right to public access may provide people with the opportunity to connect to nature.
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Ancestral Outdoorsmen and Historical Hikes
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic
Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
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Botanizing in the Borderlands
In the 1790s, Spanish naturalists traveled the vast realms of the Spanish Americas to seek out useful and commodifiable resources.
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Exhibition Overview | Wegener Diaries
In this online exhibition, historian Christian Kehrt describes how polar researcher Alfred Wegener (1880–1930) focused on gaining detailed knowledge about the origins of Greenland’s weather and climate conditions and the dynamics of its ice sheet. His expedition diaries, which are at the core of this online exhibition, are a crucial document for anyone interested in the history polar expedition. His dense and well-preserved diaries allow for a detailed look into everyday life, continuities, and changes in polar exploration in the first half of the twentieth century.