Over the summer, Sean Kheraj and I took a break from recording our monthly #EnvHist Worth Reading videocasts. However, I did still publish environmental history worth reading lists. Click on the months to access May, June, and July!
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“Park Consciousness”
I’ve watched this short 1930’s film about Minnesota’s state park system several times now and am interested in the term used at the beginning in the title of the article shown and in the narration: “park consciousness.” The term is called a “very definite factor” by the narrator and strikes me as a useful thought …
Continuing the Park System Visualization Experiment: Ontario Parks in Timeline Form
Back in February I explained how I am using interactive timelines to more easily analyze the develop of state and provincial park systems in the United States and Canada. In “Visualizing a Park System: Creating an Interactive Timeline,” I explained how I developed a label/colour system (see below) and mapped the development of Pennsylvania’s state …
University of Saskatchewan at Canadian Historical Association (CHA) 2016
Similarly to last year, the University of Saskatchewan will have a strong presence at this year’s meeting of the Canadian Historical Association to be held next week, May 30th – June 1st, in Calgary. I am presenting “Tales of a Park Not Yet Created: The Fish Creek Provincial Park Questionnaire, 1974.” For a full description …
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Environmental History Worth Reading: April 2016
Here is a link to my choices for environmental history worth reading in April 2016 that I put together for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Watch the accompanying video with Sean Kheraj below:
Environmental History Worth Reading: March 2016
Whoops! Forgot to post this last month! Here is a link to my choices for environmental history worth reading in March 2016 that I put together for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Watch the accompanying video with Sean Kheraj below:
Environmental History Worth Reading: February 2016
Here is a link to my choices for environmental history worth reading in February 2016 that I put together for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Watch the accompanying video with Sean Kheraj below:
That Ain’t Natural or Adventures in Being an Academic Killjoy I
Last night I cracked open an Images of America–a popular history series that seeks to tell lesser known aspects of American history through photographs and other images–instalment by Eugene H. Ware. The volume is dedicated to the history of Presque Isle State Park and the land on which it was created. The images themselves are fascinating, …
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Environmental History Worth Reading: January 2016
Here is a link to my choices for environmental history worth reading in January 2016 that I put together for the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). Watch the accompanying video with Sean Kheraj below:
Visualizing a Park System: Creating an Interactive Timeline
One of the most challenging aspects of my dissertation is figuring out how to analyze the development of four different park systems (Pennsylvania, Idaho, Ontario, and Alberta) over a period of about one hundred years. The sources tend to blur together in my mind, making analysis nearly impossible. I am a visual learner, and about …
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Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting 