Check out Adam Hogan's review of Robert B. Keiter's "Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem," published in 2025 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #nationalparks #envhist
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Check out @adamthogan.bsky.social's review of Willa Hammitt Brown's "Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack," published in 2024 by @uminnpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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just did my first archival research and hoo boy the thrill of learning stuff ChatGPT can’t know is REAL
I hadn’t shared this news here yet, but I’m trying to use Blue Sky to share more professional news. Grateful to be included!
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It’s astonishing how utterly joyless they are, how devoid of imagination, of hope, of creativity. What a bleak soulless conception of human life.
In the past I’ve also been fairly active/interested in the Second Great Awakening and its tangentially related intellectual connection to environmentalism. (From narratives of restoring a primitive church to a preserving a pristine wilderness)
Hi all. I joined Blue Sky last week and thought I’d introduce myself more fully. I’m a history PhD student at Texas Tech where I study religious and environmental history. The project I’m currently working on deals with religious practice on federal lands.
Alan, I was a few years behind you at HU, and took some of your dad’s polisci classes. Anyway, I just finished this book yesterday, and echo your sentiments. It was heartbreaking, tragic, and thought provoking.
