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.