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Disaster fires invite photo ops from politicians. One of my favorites: Richard Nixon, then between jobs, in shirt and tie, standing on a shake-shingle roof, holding a garden hose, staring vapidly - somewhere, while smoke rises in the background from the Bel Air-Brentwood conflagration in 1961.

A dangerous wildfire in Southern California has impacted parts of Malibu. Structures have been impacted, and Pepperdine University was under a shelter-in-place order (which has since been lifted). The fire is 2,200 acres as of this morning. #FranklinFire

You know Australia has taken over Disney when you get out the reindeer stuffed animal and your 3yo calls it a kangaroo

A rainbow touches down in green bushes on the banks of the blueish Yukon, with hills in the background

Who are the river people on here? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, historians, anthropologists, poets, writers, people who love them. Looking to make a starter pack!

#rivers #envhist #envhum 🏞️

When finishing a paper is an exercise in deleting all the highlighted notes telling you what the paper still needed that you never did

LCAB PhD studentships - Currently recruiting Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950

Please circulate this great opportunity to do a PhD at Kew Gardens and the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity at York! The student will look at the history of marginalised individuals who made knowledge about fungi in the early 20th century.

WEIRD Science – AHA An argument for including historians on interdisciplinary research teams.

@sarannmcd.bsky.social on one of those times it would have been useful for researchers working on the past to include historians.

Māori MPs in New Zealand perform a haka in response to new right wing government’s Treaty Principles Bill proposing to reinterpret (gut) the founding treaty between the Māori and the British. Amazing.

NEW: Webcams captured an apocalyptic-like scene in California's Central Valley as a haboob/dust storm moved through Monday afternoon. #CAwx
www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...

Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.”Transcript of Oral Argument at 19, Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer, 144 S. Ct. 18 (2023) (No. 22-429) (statement of Kagan, J.), htt

Reinforcing my decision to pursue a history PhD, Karen Tani's HLR Foreword draws on some of the key insights of the historical profession to expose the Supreme Court's meta choices: what cases to hear, what narratives to foreground, and whom to ignore.
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Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now:

* Environmental law attorney
* Deckhand on a sailing research vessel
* Researcher of weird plankton for a NASA project
* Sales associate at a fancy baby boutique
* Lifeguard at my hometown aquatic center

Union Pacific Railway Company, "World's Pictorial Line: Birdseye View of the Pacific Slope" (1893), courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~316589~90085206:World-s-pictorial-line---birdseye-v#

There's something I really love about a bird's eye view of California from the ocean looking in. A lot of 19th century railroad advertising maps used this approach. Bonus points for noticing the lake on this 1893 map that has since disappeared.

We just maxed out the Environmental History Starter Pack! This means you can follow 150 environmental historians and #envhist institutions by clicking a button. We would happily create a second pack. Let us know if you want to be in it!

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.

go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

Justh, Quirot & Co., "View of the conflagration of Marysville, on the night of August 30th, 1851" (1851), courtesy of Yuba County Library, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5g5026f5/?order=1

"View of the conflagration of Marysville" (1851)

Justh, Quirot & Co., "View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco [California] on the 22nd of June 1851" (1851), courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5489p2mz/?order=1

"View of the last great conflagration in San Francisco" (1851)

[Creator unknown], The great conflagration at Sacramento, California (c. 1852), courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf100006gg/?order=1

"The great conflagration at Sacramento, California" (c. 1852)

Currier & Ives, Prairie fires of the Great West (c. 1871), courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library, http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3489p2cq/?order=1

Experimental starter post here. For your viewing pleasure and/or horror: some 19th century primary sources illustrating conflagrations in California and the American West