Environmental History

  • Meet the 2019 Perspectives Daily Summer Columnists

    Allison Miller | May 29, 2019

    Follow along as three graduate students write about their scholarship, activism, and much more!
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Robin Kietlinski

    Matthew Keough | Mar 13, 2019

    Robin Kietlinski is an associate professor of history at LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York.
  • AHA Member Spotlight: Scott Miltenberger

    Matthew Keough | Feb 21, 2019

    Scott Miltenberger is a partner and consulting historian with JRP Historical Consulting, LLC.
  • Embracing Fearlessness

    Allison Miller | Jan 11, 2019

    Understanding the forces that affect historians—past, present, and future—requires thinking big.
  • Raising a Stink

    Chelsea Denault | Sep 6, 2018

    Working in sustainability provided Denault unique insights into why Detroit once built the world’s largest trash incinerator.
  • Trash to Treasure

    Chelsea Denault | Aug 2, 2018

    An interest in the history of trash led this graduate student to a job in sustainability. 
  • Blunt Impact

    Elizabeth Elliott | Dec 1, 2017

    Taking the phrase "grass roots" literally, Nick Johnson's book traces the cannabis plant from the mid-19th-century to the present.
  • “Dogs Were Our Defenders!”

    Bernard C. Moore | Jun 16, 2017

    An early 20th-century tax on owning dogs played a crucial role in shaping agriculture & labor relations during colonialism in Namibia, argues Bernard Moore.
  • Killing for Sheep

    Bernard C. Moore | Jun 9, 2017

    Over the course of my research into sheep farming in Namibia during the colonial and apartheid periods (emphasis on 1915–82),...
  • Getting Warmer

    Sadie Bergen | Feb 1, 2017

    On January 18, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA confirmed 2016 as the ho...

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