Tag: Thomas R. Dunlap
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Roundtable: In the Field, Among the Feathered
One of the attractive features of the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History is its commitment to field trips. On at least one day, historians are encouraged to get out of their hotels, change into comfortable clothes, and hop on a bus to one of several optional locations—a museum, an interesting building,…
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Roundtable: Toxic Bodies
Our bodies may be toxic waste sites. Today we take it for granted that there are unwanted substances in our bodies, coming from things we’ve eaten, from drugs our doctors prescribed, from smog, or perhaps from our drinking water. Yet we hope that poison is a matter of dose—that there is a threshold of safety,…
Jacob Darwin Hamblin 