Yale Environmental History will host a one-day conference, “New Perspectives in Energy History,” on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
The Call for Papers is now available at the ...
Oliver Lucier, “Climate Conscious: Caribbean Commodities and Holdridge Life Zones, 1940s–1960s,” ISIS 114:3 (September 2023): 578-598.
During the 1980s and 1990s the...
The Yale Energy History Project has launched a new website, “Energy Basics,” to help teach the fundamentals of energy systems in humanities and social science classes and to...
“Middle East Environmental Histories” seeks to publish the best work on the environmental history of the Middle East from late antiquity to the present. It spotlights the...
Jen Rose Smith, “The Cold Never Bothered Native Hawaiians Anyway: A Conversation with Hi’ilei Julia Hobart,” Edge Effects, February 16, 2023.
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of...
It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the...
A study involving affiliates of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program assessed the consequences of land displacement and forced migration on present-day Native American...
Abstract
During the Little Ice Age of the early modern centuries, close to a third of the globe’s population perished. Because this period serves as the most recent...
New Yale history faculty member Nurfadzilah Yahaya specialises in history of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean history, legal history, history of infrastructure, and environmental...
As Britain and France grapple with sweltering temperatures — possibly even record temperatures — for which their countries are ill-equipped, their privileged residents are...
Cross-posted from Yale News
By Susan Gonzalez
Yale historian Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of...
Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
Philip J. Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz
Oxford University Press, 2022
Sea and Land ...
Taylor Rose, “The ‘Opening of the Clackamas’: Log Trucks, Access Roads, and Multiple-Use Infrastructure in Oregon’s National Forests,” Western Historical Quarterly.
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