catherinemcneur.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Mischievous Creatures (2023) and Taming Manhattan (2014). Professor at Portland State. Enthusiastic amateur. #envhist #envhum www.catherinemcneur.com
👤 Joined on 03 December 2023
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@catherinemcneur.bsky.socialWho owns the night—and what do we lose as we flood it with light? In TRANSFORMING NIGHT, @sarabpritchard.bsky.social explores changing nights from local parks to planetary vistas, offering a new history of how modern light has transformed the darkness. Available now: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Show PostI think it’s LYRIC LOGIC’s official publication date? Here is a photo of the flowers that my friend Naomi sent, and another of my two kids holding the two books I published this year, both of which thank them last and most, because none of this would have been possible otherwise.
Show Post"Flora’s Fieldworkers contains many images like Mueller’s textbook, which evoke the excitement of archival research when a new document is unpacked from a storage box or found in an ancient dusty bound volume." Pat Bowley niche-canada.org/2023/01/30/r... #envhist #histsci #nathist #books #wmnshist
Show Post@catherinemcneur.bsky.social’s Taming Manhattan and Mischievous Creatures are both phenomenal reads.
Show Postit doesn't seem like it would work, but we've now found -- in two different cities even -- that if you invite the right 5-8 people over to have a potluck dinner and read a Shakespeare play out loud together, it's so fun that your guests will start sending you texts like:
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