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I saw this and immediately thought of John Wesley Powell.

Statue of Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut in front of a clear blue sky on the University of Minnesota Duluth’s campus.

A brick building with the words Bent Paddle Brewing Co. painted in white letters on the side.

A pathway through a forest with trees on both sides in northern Minnesota.

The St. Louis River at Jay Cooke State Park. This photo shows the river as forked and very rocky, carving its way through bedrock more than a billion years old.

Research trip up to Duluth turned into a nice little weekend getaway.

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Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories abo…

Today to celebrate anniversary week, we're thrilled to share a crosspost with our friends at @nichecanada.bsky.social: @micaamy.bsky.social's incredible comic for fire season #envhist #envhum
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A white hockey mask adorned with traditional Dakota floral designs.

One of the many reasons I love my job is because I can go look at cool things like this whenever I want.

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

One month until publication for _Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels_. Tom Rogers and I lay out the linked history of the US and Brazilian ethanol programs and explain why they matter for energy, climate, and politics. Pre-orders available now!
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JOB: 2026-27 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities, Harvard University (USA)
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"I see hockey as a cultural heritage landscape, one that retains an important social role in contemporary society and one that is threatened by climate change." - Lauren Walker

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Up North

Interesting. I like this idea. Do you have any sort of rule on penmanship? How do you assign points if you can’t read what they’ve scribbled in a notebook? I can hardly read my own chicken scratch sometimes.

If I have a personal website, would my Omeka mapping project integrate/be hosted on that, or would I need to set up/purchase a new website/domain? I’m trying to build a digital archive with an interactive map, but I’m also quite DH illiterate.

What’s the difference between S and classic? Unfortunately my project would just be by myself and no institutional support, which I think was why I might have been gravitating toward classic.

I mean, similar things have happened: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ji...

Does anyone have experience creating a mapping project with Omeka?

I mean, I don’t focus on it specifically, but I do write about lead, copper, and iron mining/smelting in two of my chapters. I’d be happy to try to help with any questions you might have.

Do I know anyone with experience creating a digital archive? I have an idea/something I’m trying to put together, but have a few questions.

Officially official 🎓

There’s an awesome, albeit somewhat apocryphal (I think), story of Brown in Pennsylvania in the 1820s. Some settlers tried to rally him to help drive Native people off their lands and he basically replied with “I’d sooner take my gun and help drive you out of the country.”

Exactly the sort of thing I’m looking for. Thank you!

I have a former student interested in researching JFK, particularly his assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald. This is admittedly not my area of expertise and I know that the topic of JFK is rife with conspiracies, but does anyone have any solid books/articles I could share with them?

I have a former student interested in researching JFK, particularly his assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald. This is admittedly not my area of expertise and I know that the topic of JFK is rife with conspiracies, but does anyone have any solid books/articles I could share with them?

I LOVED Annie Proulx’s Barkskins.

We moved and I’m making an inventory of all of my books. It got me thinking: which author has written the most books that you own?

Pretty sure mine is Alan Taylor with 7.

We learned last month that the State of Iowa will no longer fund or publish their peer-reviewed journal Annals of Iowa, which is now looking for an institutional home. Here we share our letter of concern, and we hope others will join us in supporting state and local history! 🗃️ 🧵

Check out @haydenlnelson.bsky.social's review of ‪@charmiller4.bsky.social‬'s "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning," published in 2024 by @osupress.bsky.social
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No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

This should be front-page news in every news outlet worth a damn these days.