Michael Childers
@michaelchilders.bsky.social
Environmental historian of the American West
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I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Yosemite National Park has been at the center of debates over privatization for over 150 years. The struggle between preservation and profit continues to shape its future, according to a historian. buff.ly/3pVI0C5
By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University
By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
buff.ly
July 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Yosemite National Park has been at the center of debates over privatization for over 150 years. The struggle between preservation and profit continues to shape its future, according to a historian. buff.ly/3pVI0C5
By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University
By @michaelchilders.bsky.social, Colorado State University
My university has hired Academic Analytics to provide admins insights into our scholarship production. Does anyone have any experiences with this company?
February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
My university has hired Academic Analytics to provide admins insights into our scholarship production. Does anyone have any experiences with this company?
I have a grad student looking for a roommate for ASEH. Drop me a message if interested
February 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I have a grad student looking for a roommate for ASEH. Drop me a message if interested
I don’t want a nap ….
February 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don’t want a nap ….
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"Silicon Valley was—and remains—an experiment, one that many cities and regions, ignoring the contingencies of its history, are quixotically attempting to replicate."
On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
Dirty Digits and “Pleasant Landscapes”: On Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism” | Los Angeles Review of Books
After reading Jason A. Heppler’s “Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism,” Patrick McCray decides that Silicon Valley should really be called Arsenic Valley....
lareviewofbooks.org
April 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
"Silicon Valley was—and remains—an experiment, one that many cities and regions, ignoring the contingencies of its history, are quixotically attempting to replicate."
On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
On reading @jasonheppler.org 's new book.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/dirt...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History at St. Olaf fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History
The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, one-year position in Environmental History at the Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor level to ...
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January 24, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental History at St. Olaf fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Talked with journalist Mark Dent on the current state of the ski industry. Ski resorts are angling for expansion and new resort development. media.hubspot.com/the-ski-busi...
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January 23, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Talked with journalist Mark Dent on the current state of the ski industry. Ski resorts are angling for expansion and new resort development. media.hubspot.com/the-ski-busi...
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The BYU Redd Center 2024 funding season is here!
ALL DISCIPLINES eligible, so long as the work focuses on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY.
*PLEASE* help spread the word.
Applications due March 15, 2024.
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️📗#AmWest
ALL DISCIPLINES eligible, so long as the work focuses on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY.
*PLEASE* help spread the word.
Applications due March 15, 2024.
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️📗#AmWest
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reddcenter.byu.edu
January 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
The BYU Redd Center 2024 funding season is here!
ALL DISCIPLINES eligible, so long as the work focuses on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY.
*PLEASE* help spread the word.
Applications due March 15, 2024.
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️📗#AmWest
ALL DISCIPLINES eligible, so long as the work focuses on the Intermountain regions of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, or WY.
*PLEASE* help spread the word.
Applications due March 15, 2024.
reddcenter.byu.edu/Blogs/redd-c...
🗃️📗#AmWest
TT job in United States History, American Indian Studies, the North American West, Nebraska History, and related areas. Cool small town in Nebraska. nscs.peopleadmin.com/postings/11403
January 11, 2024 at 1:28 PM
TT job in United States History, American Indian Studies, the North American West, Nebraska History, and related areas. Cool small town in Nebraska. nscs.peopleadmin.com/postings/11403
My Mom’s neighbors
January 7, 2024 at 11:53 PM
My Mom’s neighbors
I am quoted in the WSJ on the impacts of climate change on the ski industry - www.wsj.com/articles/pro....
Sadly, it is behind a paywall, though I do have a pdf if anyone wants to read my very obvious insights - more snow = more skiers, less snow = less skiers.
Sadly, it is behind a paywall, though I do have a pdf if anyone wants to read my very obvious insights - more snow = more skiers, less snow = less skiers.
Pro Take: Fed Hikes, Global Warming Haven’t Melted U.S. Ski Jobs
Ski resort employment has surged above prepandemic levels as the hospitality sector overall remains flat
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January 4, 2024 at 1:28 PM
I am quoted in the WSJ on the impacts of climate change on the ski industry - www.wsj.com/articles/pro....
Sadly, it is behind a paywall, though I do have a pdf if anyone wants to read my very obvious insights - more snow = more skiers, less snow = less skiers.
Sadly, it is behind a paywall, though I do have a pdf if anyone wants to read my very obvious insights - more snow = more skiers, less snow = less skiers.
Any news on when the hotel block for the ASEH will open? When we can expect a program?
December 6, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Any news on when the hotel block for the ASEH will open? When we can expect a program?
Maybe the next time a journal in my field discusses “the frontier” they should include a western historian, or a Native historian?
November 29, 2023 at 10:07 PM
Maybe the next time a journal in my field discusses “the frontier” they should include a western historian, or a Native historian?