Rob Christensen
In my introduction to the undergraduate history major, we read John Lewis Gaddis’ The Landscape of History, wherein he discusses the fundamental problem of trying to put ourselves in the shoes of people we can never meet and whose thoughts we can only guess at. My recent research trip to Argentina highlighted for me a related problem that environmental historians must face: the difficulty of looking at a present environment that can be just as fundamentally different from the past as historical people were. Read more on the blog.
Malarguë, as sketched by Estanislao Zeballos during the 1879 Campaign of the Río Negro. Source: Archivo Histórico de La Pampa, Colección Manuscritos de Estanislao Zeballos
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