Tag: US history
As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape...
Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah
As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in...
Why are there prisons? An expert explains the history of using...
Joshua Long, UMass Lowell
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
God and guns often go together in US history – this...
Joseph P. Slaughter, Wesleyan University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
Student ‘slave auctions’ illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of...
Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University
In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the...
By fact-checking Thoreau’s observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old...
Tara K. Miller, Boston University; Abe Miller-Rushing, National Park Service, and Richard B. Primack, Boston University
Henry David Thoreau,...
Rap artists have penned plenty of lyrics about US presidents –...
Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: 4 essential reads on pesticides and...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that...
Christianity was a major part of Indigenous boarding schools – a...
Brenda J. Child, University of Minnesota
During a weeklong trip to Canada, Pope Francis visited a former residential school...
EXPLORING NATURE
At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long...
Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the...
