Last year, St. John’s University celebrated New York’s African-American history and the diversity of Staten Island with “Sandy Ground at St. John’s: Faces of the Underground Railroad,” a public humanities and educational outreach program which brings the community into the history of the first free black community in New York State. Funded by a HNY Action grant, the installation, series of four public lectures, and K-12 school visits engaged audiences in the past, present, and future of the borough’s black communities. Read more about the program here. HNY: How did you put the Sandy Ground project together? Robert: I am […]
Archives for October 2017
Further Readings from Turning the Tide: Communicating Climate Science
From Adam Rome: Climate scientist Mike Hulme’s Why We Disagree About Climate Change (2009). Historian Joshua Howe’s Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming (2014). Psychologist Mary Pipher’s The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture (2013). Howe also has edited a wonderful collection of documents, Making Climate Change: Documents from Global Warming’s Past (2017). The documentary I mentioned about the implications of climate change for national security and international order is “The Age of Consequences” (2017). For a sense of the likely impacts of climate change more generally, I still like a 2008 book by […]