Tag Archives: New York
Paleoclimatology and the environmental history of New Netherland/New York
Although I’ve been teaching US Environmental History at UMW the last few years (and a seminar on American Wilderness), and although I write about perceptions of landscapes in my research, I haven’t really done much scholarship I’d consider environmental history as … Continue reading
The trial of “an Indyan called Nangenutch or Will”
Although I haven’t posted about it here, I have been working on an essay that I think is about ready for some additional readers (one is already checking it out, another two are lined up and will see it probably … Continue reading
Positive reinforcement
Just the other day, FedEx dropped off a lovely envelope from Early American Studies, and inside were copies to EAS 13.3, where my first full-length article appears. I last wrote about this project when submitting the piece–I held off updates when … Continue reading
Letting it go
I included among my summer goals the final pre-submission revisions to an essay I’ve discussed here several times, and today was the day: I attached files to an email and hit “send,” and I sealed and mailed the envelope with the … Continue reading
School’s out for summer
I can’t be the only one who thinks of Alice Cooper every year around this time, right? No more red pens, no more books, no more students’ dirty looks? Commence three months of sleeping in (ha!), growing a beard (that may … Continue reading
“William Penn was not a terrorist.”
So the title of this post comes from a half-joking suggestion about an alternative title for “From Conquest to Identity: New Jersey and the Middle Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,” the McNeil Center’s recent conference held in Trenton, NJ. Imagine my surprise … Continue reading
AHA 2015 proposal
My PhD advisor, Sharon Block (UC Irvine) recently put me in touch with a PhD student at the University of Southern California, Nicholas Gliserman (who, coincidentally, knows UMW’s very own Will Mackintosh from Nick’s undergraduate days in Philadelphia), and after … Continue reading
“Creating Histories and Recovering Autonomy in the Hudson Valley”
This is the abstract for my paper, “Creating Histories and Recovering Autonomy in the Hudson Valley,” recently submitted for pre-circulation among participants in a March 2014 conference, From Conquest to Identity: New Jersey and the Middle Colonies in the Seventeenth … Continue reading
