In this fictional future history, written by the co-founder of Life magazine, the Persian prince and admiral Khan-Li records his astonishing journey through the ruins of “Nhu-Yok,” the famed city of the extinct “Mehrikan” people.
Excerpt from Confronting Water Insecurity: Global Institutions and the Transformation of Water Science, Policy, and Practice by Roberto L. Lenton.
The fifth chapter of “Wetland Times,” “(A)synchronicities.”
Although known today more for beaches than blazes, Cape Cod experienced severe wildfires in 1887 that—when remembered—draw attention to the region’s inherent flammability and need for fire-adaptive management.
In the nineteenth century, tuberculous individuals could travel from Europe to Echuca, Australia, in search of a cure.
This Earth First! tabloid describes negative impacts of the U.S. Forest Service on national forests. Topics include reform proposals for the USFS, the role of deep ecology, the destruction of eco-systems across the U.S., abuse of Native American cultural heritage, and a call for the protection of national forests.
This collection highlights three quintessentially Canadian themes: seasonality, links between mobility and natural resource development, and urbanites’ experiences of the environment through mobility. It divides the intersection of environmental and mobility history into two approaches. The chapters in the first section deal primarily with the construction and productive use of mobility technologies and infrastructure, as well as their environmental constraints and consequences. The chapters in the second section focus on consumers’ uses of those vehicles and pathways: on pleasure travel, tourism, and recreational mobility.
This article examines the implications of the discussions surrounding the Justinianic Plague for the discipline of history.
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.
Explorers of the Canadian Arctic misrepresented the land as a snowscape while tundra plants were simultaneously collected for botanic collections.
