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Doug Sackman
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Historian, Nature and Culture, author of Orange Empire and Wild Men and editor of A Companion to American Environmental History

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Name a film with a forest:
Snow Falling on Cedars
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Rosensweig wrote about baseball in this classic history.
October 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
(Don't know what happened with that pic. Here's another try)
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 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
October 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
No Kings.

Now on central and 22nd

#wha2025
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
Pretty great.

(Also, dump 47 here).
October 8, 2025 at 5:29 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..."
September 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Commute.
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
seattle enters with its pedo themed fountain
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 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
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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
My one gardening rec: if you are in a climate that works for blueberries and have the space, plant blueberries.

This morning’s harvest
August 23, 2025 at 6:02 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...
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 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...
August 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
July 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
The Peace Arch at the far west border:
July 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
July 6, 2025 at 12:16 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)
June 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Point Defiance Tacoma (not the main protest site in Tacoma.

The Point was Defiance.

Joyful defiance.
June 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It's happened before: using terror tactics to expel Americans.
June 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
AI, aka, the Suckophant
June 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
More dogs, Less DOGE. On Vashon.
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 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
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April 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM