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Environment

Bees flit across a wallpaper of honeycomb and golden flowers
Shorts

The Losses: Of Archives and Arthropods

By A'liya Spinner | July 28, 2025

Dead for centuries, the bees can help save their living descendants

Hometown Histories

The Shadow Of Chemical Valley

By Spencer Roberts | October 29, 2024

Sarnia has been growing and dying in cycles for a hundred years.

How Julia Skinner Does History

By Contingent Magazine | October 13, 2024

I want to help people see themselves as a bridge between the past and the future.

Shorts

Deference and Doomposting

By Christopher Deutsch | July 14, 2024

Ironically, Chevron deference — which the conservative Supreme Court scrapped last month — began as a conservative legal tool.

Postcards

A Postcard from Lubbock, TX

By Kathryn Carpenter | March 5, 2022

I sometimes feel guilty about how much fun I have researching storm chasers.

Environment

How Raechel Lutz Does History

By Contingent Magazine | October 8, 2021

“I study the far-away worlds of the past.”

Difficult Topographies

By Samia Cohen | May 4, 2021

There are whole hidden worlds pressing into this one.

Field Trip

Visiting Old Friends

By Alicia Colson | November 15, 2020

A reading room table is a great place for a conversation.

Shorts

Looking for Locherville

By Ramya Swayamprakash | November 4, 2020

In 1908, there was a village on an island, cut off from the world.

How I Do History

How Chris Deutsch Does History

By Contingent Magazine | September 3, 2020

“No one listens unless we tell a good story, so we try to tell good stories.”

Field Trip

A Most Unique Museum

By Marc Reyes and Libby Walker | September 13, 2019

From waste containment during the Black Death to a toilet that cost $19 million, the museum is impressively comprehensive.

Field Trip

Of Strip Mines and Coal Slurry

By Ryan Tate | August 31, 2019

I’d spent years living simultaneously inside the West and outside of it.

Reviews

Overfishing Is a Choice

By Blake Earle | May 1, 2019

The industry isn’t driven by consumer demand alone.

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