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What's So Wrong About a Student's 'Wrong' Answer? Nothing (Opinion)

Here's how teachers can embrace each learning experience rather than making students feel ignorant.

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Been back in the US for two weeks. Moved to Cortland, bought a kayak, got back into light gardening, enjoying actual nice summer weather.

4 new AOP articles! In 'Unity in Diversity?', Patrick Kupper and Jana Piňosová examine the neglected history of Habsburg nature conservation in the larger context of early 20th century European conservation. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist #history

The latest issue of Environment and History (Vol. 32 No. 3) is live now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history

Finding out that your favorite kebab spot in Paris has permanently closed:

Another great FCHS Conference in the books. Heading back to France tomorrow for more research.

Arrived in Maynooth. 22°C after five days of heat wave in southern France feels incredible. I’m on for the very first panel of the conference tomorrow - here we go.

39°C in Lyon today. As much as I love this city, I am very ready to return to Ireland for FCHS

Wrapped up a productive week of research in Aix. This was my first time back post-PhD, nice to see some familiar sites.

We’re delighted to announce that our 2025 Impact Factor has increased to 0.8 (Q1, 90th percentile in History & 51st out of 553 ranked history journal). Many thanks to our readers and authors for your continued support! clarivate.com/academia-gov... #envhist #history @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

The 2025 Impact Factors have landed! All our journals have increased their IF – 'Nomadic Peoples' to an excellent 1.3 (Q2 Anthropology); 'Environment and History' to 0.8 (Q1, 90th percentile in History at 51st out of 553 journals ranked) and 'Global Environment' to 0.5 (solidly in Q2 for History).

Day 1 in Dublin

Just finished nine hours of AP exam scoring. Six more days of this and then off to Ireland & France

In 'Building Cistersn to Buffer Water Scarcity', Milja Van Tielhof examines rainwater harvesting and storage as a form of climate adaptation in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

2 new AOP articles! In 'Listening to Deep Time', Naomi Yuval-Naeh and Leore Joanne Green investigate how nineteenth-century British writers imagined the soundscapes of ancient environments, focusing on the Carboniferous period as a case study doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

There's still time to submit a proposal for our conference this fall at SUNY Cortland. Email your paper or panel proposal to frmolvar@bc.edu by May 30th.

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There's still time to submit a proposal for this year's meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians, October 9-10 at SUNY Cortland! nysaeh.org/call-for-pap... #history

#AcademicSky Has anyone had success with oral exams, particularly in online courses? I'm working on an undergraduate history survey (9-10 students) and am considering this route for the final assessment. Would anyone who has had success with these be willing to share materials/frameworks?

Finally diving back into some article revisions and conference prep for FCHS. Uncovering swaths of new visual sources for this project on dam-building and disaster in Algeria

More recent ahead-of-print articles! In 'Regulating the Wood Trade and Forestry', Cristiano La Lumia examines political & social tensions over timber tariffs in Imperial Germany. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

In 'From Conversion to Conservation', Nawiyanto and Pim de Zwart analyze this shift in environmental practices in colonial Java, driven by consequences of deforestation doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

New ahead of print articles! In 'Makhtesh Ramon as a Contested Landscape', Galia Limor-Sagiv examines the environmental history of Israel’s Makhtesh Ramon in the 20th century. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️

Looking out my window over a rainy, dreary Syracuse has me longing for the California trip I took a few weeks ago

The latest issue of Environment and History (32.2) is out now! Subscribers can read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... 🗃️ #envhist

CFP: New York State Association of European Historians (NYSAEH) Annual Conference, Oct. 9-10 at SUNY Cortland. Submit your proposal by May 30! #history #skystorians docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A fantastic and free medieval history conference taking place later this month at Syracuse University! Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend

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47°F and sunny is apparently "grade papers on my balcony in a t-shirt weather" in Upstate New York

New open access ahead-of-print article! In 'Landscapes of Caste Exclusion', Nivedita Nath evaluates the role of caste in the colonial transformation of entangled subcontinental landscapes of forests and fields. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... 🗃 #envhist

2 new ahead-of-print articles live now! In 'The Fugitive Steppe', Jackie Erlon-Baurjan examines how Russian imperial ambitions to transform the Kazakh steppe between 1840 and 1914 were shaped by and in turn reshaped understandings of climate. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... 🗃️ #envhist

The History Department at SUNY Cortland is hiring a 2-year PRODiG+ postdoctoral fellow (transitioning into a TT line) for a historian of Latin America, Caribbean/Atlantic World, OR Colonial America. Read more about the position here: jobs.cortland.edu/postings/10927 #academicsky 🗃️ #AcademicChatter