Teaching the Climate Crisis in Early American History Courses
Camille Suárez integrates environmental history into her courses to teach the deep roots of our climate crisis.
All the World Will Burn: William Miller and the Roots of American Eco-Millenarianism
Holly Jackson links apocalyptic religious visions to the climate upheaval that attended early national growth.
The Climate Crisis as an Early American Story
Emily Pawley, Anya Zilberstein, Scout Blum, and Keith Pluymers introduce a new roundtable entitled “Early America Speaks to Climate Change.”
The Panorama Roundtable That Wasn’t
Will B. Mackintosh, Johann Neem, and Jessica Roney describe the challenges of opening up conversations about the material conditions under which historians labor.
Politics in the Archives of Abolition
Mary T. Freeman reflects on how the archives of abolitionist organizations have been used by generations of researchers.
John Pierce: International Man of Mystery
Heather Carlquist Walser set out looking for a sailor but found a symbol.
Female Physicians in Antebellum New York City
Nicholas L. Syrett traces the deep history of distinguishing abortion from other women’s healthcare in order to demonize it and its practitioners.
On Dobbs: A Perspective from a Historian of Child Sexual Abuse
Grave Argo argues that we must fight for reproductive justice to bring closure to girls’ suffering in the past.
