Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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Willow Bark Medicine

Ancient History, Early Modern, History of Science, Medieval History / November 15, 2023 / medicine, medieval

Although my posts for the next few weeks are mostly going to be repeats as the website gets built, I couldn’t help but write up…

Pennsylvania’s LeTorte Trail

Live Reporting, Long 19th- 20th centuries / November 25, 2024 / environmental history, political history, social history, technology

On a lovely January morning, I walked the LeTorte trail, which runs along the eponymous nature preserve. LeTorte’s name comes from an early 18th-century…

Indigo Dye

Ancient History, History of Science, Long 19th- 20th centuries / July 24, 2024 / art, economic history, Egypt, environmental history, fashion history, science, social history, U.S. history

It’s pleasant, from where I write this post in my ice-bitten and wintery grey state of Pennsylvania, to look at this lovely plant. Here is…

Virginia’s Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Live Reporting, Long 19th- 20th centuries / September 19, 2024 / animals, environmental history, U.S. natural parks

A lovely chapter in human history was undertaken with the formation and development of south-eastern Virginia’s Back Bay Natinal Wildlife Refuge. Formed in 1938 to…

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