Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Snapshot: Human Evolution Workshop
By Christian Schnurr The evolution of the genus Homo was influenced in part by the landscape in which early hominins lived. Important archaeological sites are often located in areas with very rough terrain and a rich supply of nutrients and trace elements. These two features could have led wandering animals on paths where early hominins could…
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Snapshot: RCC Staff Trip to Nuremberg
“At Nuremberg, I had the same surreal feeling I often experience in my hometown of Gettysburg, where I am surrounded by land that marks one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the American Civil War. The sunshine and the bucolic beauty of the day insisted on evading the horrors contained in this space. 
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CfP: Consuming the World: Eating and Drinking in Culture, History, and Environment
Location: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich Conveners: Michelle Mart (Penn State University, Berks Campus), Daniel Philippon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Hanna Schösler (University of Bayreuth) The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, invites paper proposals for a conference…
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Exploring the Po River Delta: An Experiment in Digital Multimedia Storytelling
By Giacomo Parrinello (Link to multimedia map) One of the most important things I have learnt over these years of research is that the “archives of the feet†is as vital to history as it is to geography. Historians, and especially environmental historians, should not write of a place they have not seen in person.…