CSU’s The Audit podcast: Are we loving our national parks to death?

Author -Stacy Nick

Yosemite National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors each year, but those visits come at a steep environmental cost. National parks historian Michael Childers discusses the impact of the park’s decision to end its reservation system and what the record-breaking crowds expected this season could mean for the future of our national parks.

History Associate Professor Doug Yarrington publishes historical study of Venezuela in the first half of the 20th century

Author -Ann Claycomb

Doug Yarrington, an associate professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts recently published a sweeping history of Venezuela that explores the ways corruption and efforts to combat it shaped the national state during the years of its formation.

Duffy’s book explores impact of modern imperialism on environment

Author -Ann Claycomb

Andrea Duffy wrote The Nature of Empire: Modern Imperialism and the Roots of the Anthropocene, which traces the complex and conflicting ways that the environment transformed and was transformed by imperial ventures in five modern states: Britain, France, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan. It is a resource for anyone seeking to better understand the roots of today’s global environmental challenges.

Professor of History Robert Gudmestad publishes first full account of the Civil War-era Mississippi River Squadron

Author -Ann Claycomb

Robert Gudmestad, a professor of history and current chair of the Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts, recently published the first comprehensive story of the Mississippi River Squadron a Union naval fleet that patrolled the Mississippi river and its tributaries during the United States Civil War and played a significant role in securing both freedom for many enslaved people and a victory for the Union.

History Matters: faculty create hyperlocal history curriculum for Northern Colorado

Colorado State University’s History Matters project is transforming how local history is taught in Colorado classrooms by using a hyperlocal, place-based focus, the project builds equity-driven curricula that center the under told histories of Fort Collins, Northern Colorado and the state of Colorado.