Issue Eight : Fall 2017
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Industrial Ornament, Modern Symbol: New Orleans’ First Waterworks on the Mississippi River
The second city in U.S. history to debut a modern industrial urban waterworks system was New Orleans Designed and built between 1811 and 1820, the New Orleans Waterworks displayed the most advanced innovations of its day, both in hydraulic engineering technology and in aesthetic architectural design…
Rio Yaqui—The Hiak Vatwe: The Transformation of a Cultural Landscape
Why is water sacred to Native Americans?
The Lakota phrase “Mní wičhóni,” or “Water is life,” has become a new national protest anthem. It was chanted by 5,000 marchers at the Native Nations March in Washington, D.C. on March 10, and during hundreds of protests across the United States in the last year. “Mní wičhóni” became the anthem of the almost year-long struggle to stop the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline under the Missouri River in North Dakota.
Listening to a River: How Sound Emerges in River Histories
Hydrology and World History: Rivers and Watersheds for Students
River Conservancy and the Undetermined Future of the Port of Tianjin, 1888-1937
Across the last several decades of China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1912), and China’s first republic (1912-1949), on the banks of a river connecting Tianjin with the sea, the most important seaport of North China in the early twentieth century was built, thanks to the consistent efforts of river conservancy…
Watershed Colonialism and Popular Geographies of North American Rivers
Grasping Water Summer Institute Reading List
