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Enviro-History is a public, educational project that explores the environment and history through maps, visualizations, essays, music, art and other media.

A cornerstone of the site is a series of essays on the relationship between music and the environment. As with the rest of website, “environment” is construed broadly. Historians have written about Metallica, union songs, Bruce Springsteen, the Clash, Gil Scott-Heron, the acoustic ecology pioneer Bernie Krause and several others.

The site also includes:
* An interactive map telling the story of an infamous invasive species
* An essay on an African-American play produced for the first Earth Day
* An essay on Charlton Heston's apocalyptic films
* An essay on a series of paintings depicting the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815

Subjects or Themes

Environment, music, race, class, gender

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Images, Video, Maps, Music, Text

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Leif Fredrickson

Year(s)

2017

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

DIY

Software Employed

  • Jekyll, Github Pages, Timeline JS, Mapbox

Labor and Support

Several years (ongoing)

Project Cost

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

N/A