Environment, Law, and History

The latest issue of the  Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international  has an article by Fekade...

Anna Price of the Library of Congress's In Custodia Legis  recently posted on the 150th anniversary of the creation of Yellowstone Natio...

Last year's The Americas  published an article by Christopher Woolley,  "'The Forests Cannot be Commons': Spanish Law, Envi...

The American Historical Review  recently published Miranda Johnson's "The Case of the Million-Dollar Duck: A Hunter, His Treaty, an...

Next in our series on "The Tragedy of the Commons at 50"  (the last post is here ) is Michel Morin's "Indigenous Peoples,...

Aboriginal men obtain water from mallee root at Yalata in South Australia, 1981 (National Library of Australia) Peter D. Burdon, Georgi...

The Ahwahnee Hotel in 1980 (George Rose) Daniel Duane has an interesting piece in yesterday's New York Time s  on genocide of the Yo...

Ed Mendoza of the Gila River Indian Community, Arizona (photo: Monica Almeida/NYT) Dylan Hedden-Nicely recently posted "The Legisla...

Joseph Singer recently posted "Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest...

Whanganui River H-Law's World Legal History Blog published this week Debjani Bhattacharyya's post, "Being, River: The Law, ...

The latest issue of Environmental History  just arrived, leading with an environmental-legal history article, M.X. Mitchell's "Offs...

Symbolic Petition of Chippewa Chiefs, presented at Washington, January 28, 1849, headed by Oshcabawis of Monomonecau, Wisconsi n In the ...

"Salmon Fishing at Chenook" , James G. Swan, in The Northwest Coast; Or, Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory,  1...

Black Squirrel, Stirling Ontario ( Robert Taylor ) Loren Michael Mortimer recently posted at Early Canadian History on bear and squirre...

Joshua Bryant, Rainbow over a Plantation (Demerara, early 19th century) Environment and History recently published Janette Bulkan'...

Continuing coverage of the special issue of Western Legal History on Southern California water : Tanis Thorne's contribution is "In...

I've been harping on the weather a lot lately, but it's at least a small comfort to know that it's probably hotter somewhere els...

Last year's Michigan Historical Review  published Rebecca Mead's "The Kawbawgam Cases: Native Claims and the Discovery of Iron ...

Pelagic Fur-Seal Hunting off Akootan Pass, Bering Sea, ( Harper's Weekly April 1892) For those of is facing hot summer temperatures...

Thanks to the History Carnival hosted this month at NiCHE , we learned of Stephanie Milne-Lane's recently posted "Go Fish" , a...