Doug Sackman
@dcsackman.bsky.social
Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History
https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
https://sites.google.com/view/douglassackman/home
Name a film with a forest:
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Name a film with a forest:
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
Rosensweig wrote about baseball in this classic history.
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Rosensweig wrote about baseball in this classic history.
(Don't know what happened with that pic. Here's another try)
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
(Don't know what happened with that pic. Here's another try)
Had a great time at the Western History Association Conference in Albuquerque. Here's a Western History starter pack I made aways back (let me know if you want to be added).
Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana
#WHA2025
go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu
Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana
#WHA2025
go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Had a great time at the Western History Association Conference in Albuquerque. Here's a Western History starter pack I made aways back (let me know if you want to be added).
Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana
#WHA2025
go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu
Here's some award winners, congrats! (on the cover of California History is a painting by Ana
#WHA2025
go.bsky.app/C4EU8cu
October 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's as if Chaplin knew what letter future fascists would embrace, and double downed with the ridicule in making the xx-insignia be a little askew.
October 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's as if Chaplin knew what letter future fascists would embrace, and double downed with the ridicule in making the xx-insignia be a little askew.
Pretty great.
(Also, dump 47 here).
(Also, dump 47 here).
October 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Pretty great.
(Also, dump 47 here).
(Also, dump 47 here).
"My dearest Elizabeth,
...our scout has located a huge antifa armory, occupying a full city block, with millions of magazines of ammo stocked floor to ceiling..."
...our scout has located a huge antifa armory, occupying a full city block, with millions of magazines of ammo stocked floor to ceiling..."
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"My dearest Elizabeth,
...our scout has located a huge antifa armory, occupying a full city block, with millions of magazines of ammo stocked floor to ceiling..."
...our scout has located a huge antifa armory, occupying a full city block, with millions of magazines of ammo stocked floor to ceiling..."
seattle enters with its pedo themed fountain
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
seattle enters with its pedo themed fountain
The stereochrome mural is Emmanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire, in the US capitol.
But I can't remember, for the life of me, where I read an analysis, with this diagram and discussion of the ship on the SF bay...Anyone recognize it?
🗃️ @cjslaby.bsky.social @mlobelart.bsky.social
But I can't remember, for the life of me, where I read an analysis, with this diagram and discussion of the ship on the SF bay...Anyone recognize it?
🗃️ @cjslaby.bsky.social @mlobelart.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
The stereochrome mural is Emmanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire, in the US capitol.
But I can't remember, for the life of me, where I read an analysis, with this diagram and discussion of the ship on the SF bay...Anyone recognize it?
🗃️ @cjslaby.bsky.social @mlobelart.bsky.social
But I can't remember, for the life of me, where I read an analysis, with this diagram and discussion of the ship on the SF bay...Anyone recognize it?
🗃️ @cjslaby.bsky.social @mlobelart.bsky.social
When one user posted "I will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...so long as I never have to hear spanish in public again," Curtis Yarvin—the blogger philosopher king of the far right who describes himself as a "royalist" and is eagerly read and cited by Vice-President J.D. Vance,
August 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When one user posted "I will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...so long as I never have to hear spanish in public again," Curtis Yarvin—the blogger philosopher king of the far right who describes himself as a "royalist" and is eagerly read and cited by Vice-President J.D. Vance,
My one gardening rec: if you are in a climate that works for blueberries and have the space, plant blueberries.
This morning’s harvest
This morning’s harvest
August 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My one gardening rec: if you are in a climate that works for blueberries and have the space, plant blueberries.
This morning’s harvest
This morning’s harvest
Not everything in this short piece made it in. I spent some time researching Curtis Yarvin, due to a tweet of his related to the topic. (I'll never get that time back). Anyhow, here's the bit that got yanked: When one supporter of these removal policies posted “I will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Not everything in this short piece made it in. I spent some time researching Curtis Yarvin, due to a tweet of his related to the topic. (I'll never get that time back). Anyhow, here's the bit that got yanked: When one supporter of these removal policies posted “I will gladly pay $50 for a tomato...
Still collecting Sunkist crates (now cardboard boxes).
But these are for gardening, not for writing about (as I did with the colorful old crate labels for my book Orange Empire). www.ucpress.edu/books/orange...
But these are for gardening, not for writing about (as I did with the colorful old crate labels for my book Orange Empire). www.ucpress.edu/books/orange...
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Still collecting Sunkist crates (now cardboard boxes).
But these are for gardening, not for writing about (as I did with the colorful old crate labels for my book Orange Empire). www.ucpress.edu/books/orange...
But these are for gardening, not for writing about (as I did with the colorful old crate labels for my book Orange Empire). www.ucpress.edu/books/orange...
The Peace Arch at the far west border:
July 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Peace Arch at the far west border:
How it started. How it finished.
Cool showery day for a pb on the marathon down the Cascade Trail. (Including the tunnel where Sinema broke her foot, remember her?)
(Not shown: pain, especially miles 21-25)
Cool showery day for a pb on the marathon down the Cascade Trail. (Including the tunnel where Sinema broke her foot, remember her?)
(Not shown: pain, especially miles 21-25)
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
How it started. How it finished.
Cool showery day for a pb on the marathon down the Cascade Trail. (Including the tunnel where Sinema broke her foot, remember her?)
(Not shown: pain, especially miles 21-25)
Cool showery day for a pb on the marathon down the Cascade Trail. (Including the tunnel where Sinema broke her foot, remember her?)
(Not shown: pain, especially miles 21-25)
Point Defiance Tacoma (not the main protest site in Tacoma.
The Point was Defiance.
Joyful defiance.
The Point was Defiance.
Joyful defiance.
June 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Point Defiance Tacoma (not the main protest site in Tacoma.
The Point was Defiance.
Joyful defiance.
The Point was Defiance.
Joyful defiance.
It's happened before: using terror tactics to expel Americans.
June 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's happened before: using terror tactics to expel Americans.
AI, aka, the Suckophant
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
AI, aka, the Suckophant
More dogs, Less DOGE. On Vashon.
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
More dogs, Less DOGE. On Vashon.
Here was my 2 cents:
"early in the first round with this history-hating administration, the president visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Capitol. At the time, he said, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done
🗃️🧵
"early in the first round with this history-hating administration, the president visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Capitol. At the time, he said, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done
🗃️🧵
April 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Here was my 2 cents:
"early in the first round with this history-hating administration, the president visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Capitol. At the time, he said, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done
🗃️🧵
"early in the first round with this history-hating administration, the president visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Capitol. At the time, he said, “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done
🗃️🧵