I have been slowly re-engaging, in a limited degree, both in the time I am on the site and the amount I am tweeting, commenting, or retweeting. But if this doesn't work, I'll be leaving altogether.
Not Above It All: Henry Hudson’s Troubled Exploration Record
Gotham, the blog of the Gotham Center for New York City History, sponsored by the Graduate Center, CUNY, asked me to contribute to a weeklong series on Monuments of Colonial New York. I obliged with this essay on the Henry Hudson statue that overlooks his eponymous river.
The Aesthetic of the Northland
The good people at the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) asked me to contribute an essay to a series marking the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Canadian landscape art collective, the Group of Seven. Fresh from a boat trip up eastern Georgian Bay, through many locales where members of the Group painted during and before its formation, I was happy to oblige.
The pseudo among the pros: know your warning signs
Pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology among the pros: know your warning signs
On (sort of) leaving Twitter
I'm not dead, just resting. And working on a different way to engage with a problematic social media website.
Spectral Passages
The history of Arctic exploration is full of cul de sacs, of narrow channels in ice fields, of straits that turn out to be bays, and of illusions that appeared to be opportunities. Some adventurers hesitated and missed breakthroughs of discovery. Others rushed in and found their retreats cut off by enclosing pack ice that ground their ships to flinders. Islands also appeared where none existed: cloudbanks and enormous ice fields masqueraded as solid ground. People saw things that were not there—or that we insist could never have been there.
