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Cutaway engraving of a mine showing a shaft going down through the ground into a cavern, bolstered by wood, with figures climbing in and out.

Colonial Geology and Being Critical of “Critical Minerals”

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August 14, 2023

Black and white photo if a bare tree above a snowy field with streaky clouds in the background.

Lessons Learned from the “Year Without a Summer:” A Call for Studying Climate Persistence

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July 28, 2023

Lithograph of a river flowing from a lake through a prairie with a few houses on the banks and some boats.

The Roots of Environmental (In)justice in the Early Republic: Development and Dispossession as a Two-Pronged Conquest

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July 11, 2023

Picture of a white sign with a red arrow and red letters that read "High Water Exit, Emergency Call 911"

In Case of Flooding: Wandering Iron Ruins and Imagining Climate Reparations in a Maryland State Park

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July 7, 2023

Picture looking down a hill towards a flat lawn flooded with brown water with an old stone house in the middle of the flood

Searching for a Reusable Past: Public History and the Revolutionary Origins of the Climate Crisis

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July 3, 2023

Teaching the Climate Crisis in Early American History Courses

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June 1, 2023

Newspaper clipping with an engraving of a man in a pulpit preaching under a tent.

All the World Will Burn: William Miller and the Roots of American Eco-Millenarianism

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May 30, 2023

A technical looking drawing of a primitive steam engine.

The Climate Crisis as an Early American Story

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May 23, 2023