These were to explain overcrowding in jails and the construction of new ones, ignoring plenty of other explanations (including some they articulated elsewhere!).
Depressing not surprising: baselessly blaming immigrants for (supposedly) increasing criminal behavior isn't only a political tactic today but a time-honored historical analysis. Found "then in the 1700s all the undesirables came" stuff in both an 1828 book and a 1935 professional journal this week
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In an intense feedback phase of dissertation writing. You can join the onslaught for FREE. This coming Tuesday (10/15), 5 p.m. ET. Online or IRL adjacent the Fenway. Find more info and the registration link here...
Two years in the making, the manuscript of my book project is nearly complete! Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Business History A collection of essays exploring the creative role of natural systems in capitalist business Coedited by myself, Timothy LeCain, and Nicole Welk-Joerger Pub date TBD
5-month research role with the MapReader team at intersection of #envhist#geosky#dh#MLsky closes this coming Monday! Don’t delay :)
New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” www.404media.co/the-editors-...
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.
1896 vision to limit tides in Portland, Maine's Back Cove, making most of it a "pleasure basin" with fairly static water depth. #envhist
Landscape commission for Town of Portland at an unknown address in Portland, ME, 1896. The commission is associated with Olmsted Brothers. This item is part of the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks & L...
#HistSci#EnvHistwww.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096146-... It essentially entails being me for a year while I'm on a Leverhulme Fellowship, and teaching & doing research in history of science and/or environmental history
