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Social Roots
Seismic City
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and …
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgias Little Grand Canyon, preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the …
The Art of Managing Longleaf
Greenwood Plantation in the Red Hills region of southwest Georgia includes a rare one-thousand-acre stand of old-growth longleaf pine woodlands, a remnant of an ecosystem that once …
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center …
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of …
Debating Malthus
Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas …
Smell Detectives
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century …
Capturing Glaciers
Explores the photography of climate changePhotographs do not simply speak for themselves. Their meanings are built through interpretive frameworks that shift over time. Today, …
Nuclear Reactions
Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in post–World War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on …