In the shadow of the 2022 Federal Election, delegations from the Uniting Church in Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, met last week to discuss the role of religion and religious organisations in civil society and in pubic debate. This was the 53rd time the National Dialogue has met, since it was founded more…
Shana Kushner Gadarian is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School in Syracuse University, and with Sara Wallace Goodman and Thomas Pepinsky, the author of
Pandemic Politics: How COVID-19 Revealed the Depths of American Polarization, which is under contract with Princeton University Press.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson is associate professor of English at Johns Hopkins University and the author, with Princeton University Press, of The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing (2021).
Gillen D’Arcy Wood is professor of environmental humanities and English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he serves as associate director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment. He is the author of
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The Tambora volcano in Indonesia erupted in 1815, causing global climate change and economic disruption, which by 1819 had led new settlers to the Sangamon country. Sangamon County s humble beginnings seem so distant as we approach the bicentennial of the founding of the county on Jan. 30, 1821. Our founders owed their survival largely to the fertile soils created by glaciation, primarily during the Illinoian Period of 191,000 to 130,000 years ago. Native Americans introduced early settlers to corn and several varieties of squash, which became dietary essentials. And the utilization of corn in distillation of alcohol became one of the most traded items and facilitated economic exchanges when other forms of currency were scarce. Honey from wild bee populations substituted for cane sugars and was commonly traded. The Sangamon River and its tributaries, prairie grasses and stands of timber greeted new arrivals. Timber margins extended u
temperatures dropped sharply in many parts of the world. at the british library in london d arcy wood is comparing the results of the climate researchers simulations with contemporary records. there he discovers a source that sheds a completely new light on the consequences of the tambura eruption from a region that researchers have largely overlooked so far the bay of bengal in northeastern india. it s a medical book written by james jamison a doctor the british government sent to report on an increase of cholera outbreaks in the region. but jamieson started with about 80 pages of detailed weather records the most meticulous description of the consequences of the eruption available to historians today.