For our latest podcast, we interview Erika Bsumek, Professor of History at the University of Texas, about her brand new book The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession.
When I teach my environmental history courses, I tell my students that if they want to work for the rest of their lives, go get a degree in water law.
In 1862, President Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history, ending the Dakota War. This grotesque event gets even worse. At the end of the executions, the bodies.
Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, from 1645 etching from Antwerp.
Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913 Larger version of this image at the Library of Congress website. No info though on which tribe.
I've stated my before that I am uncomfortable with land acknowledgements. Like, it's fine for me to say I am on Narragansett land, which I am. But what does it.
This is the grave of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, as well as others who died with them when the Cayuse struck against the missionary colonialists in 1847. Born in 1802.
On April 12, 1959, unions led by the International Hod Carriers', Building, and Common Laborers' Union of America and with assistance from the United Steelworkers of America and the Operating.
