@charlotte-leib
PhD@Yale writing an #envhist of the NJ Meadowlands centered on intersection of the organic & fossil economies. Trained in landscape, energy, early Am.& US history, w/ broader interests in histories of tech, climate, capitalism, inequality charlotteleib.com
Congratulations everyone, we made it through February…barely, and now that we’re finally in March, it’s time for one of my favorite nocturnal signs of spring; listening for the nasal “peent” call and twittering displays of the American woodcock!
#peent #birds #birdphotography #wilflife
shadowy creeks of saltmarsh from where a little egret startles takes wing until starsmall curlew paces & stares * down to estuary forgotten post swings shadow to turn of tide & fading human footprints overlaid by avian waxing moon firms faint imprint on afternoon
Shorter winters and warmer temps means “reduced water supply, decreased summer crop yields and worsening allergy seasons . . . substantial changes to ecosystems, the health of our natural community and our water resources,” and “challenges for local economies.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This month I featured @donnalferguson.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @herberthistory.bsky.social, @cymene.bsky.social, @dominicboyer.bsky.social, @maximepolleri.bsky.social, and more!
#envhist
Call for Contributors: Cities at Play
We at The Metropole are excited to issue a call for our next theme month: Cities at Play We welcome submissions about any aspect of play, recreation, or leisure in the urban environment. How have cities uniquely shaped the way their inhabitants play, and how…
The second article in my "Prelude to a Revolution" series is out!
In it, I explore how the American and Industrial Revolutions in N.America emerged alongside shortages in a humble product: grass
#envhist #history @revolution250.bsky.social @bplmaps.bsky.social
www.leventhalmap.org/articles/pre...
The second article in my "Prelude to a Revolution" series is out!
In it, I explore how the American and Industrial Revolutions in N.America emerged alongside shortages in a humble product: grass
#envhist #history @revolution250.bsky.social @bplmaps.bsky.social
www.leventhalmap.org/articles/pre...
Rainy evening in Paris
Joseph Zbukvic
Figure skating is greatly improved by the involvement of Donna Summer! Go Alysa!
Second that! I was just re-listening to Donna Summer while cooking dinner, after watching her outstanding performance!
Nature still stops the pulse of capital, sometimes. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold.
In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
A little bit of #Revolutionary history & #urbanhistory: as Patriots fled west from New York City, this was the moment when #NewJersey 's Manhattan-adjacent towns first began to gain a kind of suburban-urban density that would never from that point stop accreting #Jersey #AmericanRevolution #history
Also, as a sidenote: people seem happier today outside, in the library and on the street. Thanks #badbunny for giving us a show we didn't know we needed! The news has really gotten me down lately, as I'm sure it has many of you. I'm going to be watching the Olympics and this halftime show as solace.
Really looking forwd to teaching the #SuperBowl #BadBunny halftime show in dialogue w/ American energy history & colonialism in the future. #envhist #energy #colonialism #sugarcane #electricpower
Singer Bad Bunny dressed in a cream colored outfit standing on a cream colored pickup truck surrounded by dancers in tan outfits against a backdrop of sugar cane.
A tan book cover that says THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE in green letters and SUGAR, MASTERY, AND PLEASURE IN THE ANGLO CARIBBEAN KIM F. HALL in brown letters
My book,The Sweet Taste of Empire focuses on Anglo Caribbean, but shows the importance of sugar to the global economy & the racial order in the West. Bad Bunny turns the white mastery embedded in sugar/slave complex on its head: highlighting vibrant, resilient culture that emerged from history
When ye olde Julian and Gregorian calendars add hours to verifying footnotes and cross-checking sources to set the dates straight, I'm grateful to have been a distance swimmer...early American history is an endurance sport! #amwriting #earlyAmhist #vastearlyAmerica
the bushes were people 😂
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
Brick acting as wall, floor and somewhere to sit in Shiraz, Iran
By Mahsa Saeidi
Bad Bunny strides with a Puerto Rican flag beneath power poles and utility workers symbolizing the electricity crisis in Puerto Rico, made exponentially worse by Hurricane Maria striking the island in 2017.
And so, with Bad Bunny and the Puerto Rican electricity crisis, the climate disaster finally made it into the Super Bowl.
This is the kind of image that might show up in a history timeline or even a textbook someday.
Social media post by the muppet Elmo stating "That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny."
100% wyth Elmo on thys
Whenever somebody says “So you do environmental history? That must be a new niche subfield or something.”
I tell them about this guy.
Gift article. This is a great story about a neglected artistic legacy of the New Deal, the public art found in post offices across the US. Sadly, it’s also testament to the skill of a variety of WaPo employees who were just laid off.
For reference, his name comes up more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potter's name does in the Harry Potter novels.
Recipe for Jeweled Tiffin from Natalia Rudin's cookbook, Cooking Fast and Slow. Photo shows two pages in the book with picture on left-hand page of sliced, stacked chocalate tiffin laced with nuts, cranberries, and biscoff cookies, piled high in chunks.
Photo of a winter streetscape. There's a snow-covered sidewalk shoveled with a dusting of snow, and brick buildings on either side. Cars are blanketed in snow and the street trees stand black and bare in the middle of the photo, between the cars and the sidewalk. Lights glow from windows, doorways, and the street. Wires criss-cross in the sky above the street. The sky is a dusky blue-gray. It is cold.
Ok, it's 1 °F in New Haven, and I just ordered a giant bag of chocolate online for melting. The world is a mess.
Somehow chocolate seems like a good thing to have for this February 2026.
Sharing this recipe in case you, too, need chocolate. May look decadent, but it's high in iron and magnesium!
Whenever tech companies claim it’s technological magic, it’s ALWAYS capital exploiting somebody’s labor.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An excellent project - documenting these erasures of history at federal sites is a vital part of the #resistance.
