Michael Childers

Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.

Yosemite National Park has been at the center of debates over privatization for over 150 years. The struggle between preservation and profit continues to shape its future, according to a historian. buff.ly/3pVI0C5
By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University

My university has hired Academic Analytics to provide admins insights into our scholarship production. Does anyone have any experiences with this company?

I have a grad student looking for a roommate for ASEH. Drop me a message if interested

I don’t want a nap ….

But its spring

Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism” | Los Angeles Review of Books After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley....

"Silicon Valley was—and remains—an experiment, one that many cities and regions, ignoring the contingencies of its history, are quixotically attempting to replicate."

On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...

Yup, fat dog is obsessed. But we ate least know he is feeling good these days.

I work in Clark

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, one-year position in Environmental History at the Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor level to ...

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History at St. Olaf fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Talked with journalist Mark Dent on the current state of the ski industry. Ski resorts are angling for expansion and new resort development. media.hubspot.com/the-ski-busi...

The BYU Redd Center 2024 funding season is here!

ALL DISCIPLINES eligible, so long as the work focuses on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY.

*PLEASE* help spread the word.

Applications due March 15, 2024.

reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...

🗃️📗#AmWest

TT job in United States History, American Indian Studies, the North American West, Nebraska History, and related areas. Cool small town in Nebraska. nscs.peopleadmin.com/postings/11403

My Mom’s neighbors

Pro Take: Fed Hikes, Global Warming Haven’t Melted U.S. Ski Jobs Ski resort employment has surged above prepandemic levels as the hospitality sector overall remains flat

I am quoted in the WSJ on the impacts of climate change on the ski industry - www.wsj.com/articles/pro....
Sadly, it is behind a paywall, though I do have a pdf if anyone wants to read my very obvious insights - more snow = more skiers, less snow = less skiers.

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Any news on when the hotel block for the ASEH will open? When we can expect a program?

Or Leisl

Maybe the next time a journal in my field discusses “the frontier” they should include a western historian, or a Native historian?