Content Index

Franz-Josef Brüggemeier outlines the history one of the most crucial energy source of twentieth-century Europe in this article. “Coal returned to center stage again and again. In both world wars, coal provided the material basis for the atrocities committed and was of decisive importance in the subsequent search for lasting peace.”

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Harald Lesch.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Kate Rigby.

The Second Annual Rachel Carson Center Lecture with Kate Brown and Antonia Alampi.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Matthew Gandy.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Bart Elmore.

Lunchtime Colloquium at the Rachel Carson Center with Monica Vasile.

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.

Louis Warren on “The Ghost Dance Movement.”