Environmental History Student Activist Project (EH SAP): Spring 2014
The EH SAP is both a research paper and digital history project devoted to the environmental history of Michigan. Over the course of the semester, students will investigate contemporary environmental issues in the Great Lakes state and then write research essays that explore the effects these issues have had on particular places. As such, this project provides students with an opportunity to “do” environmental history and become activists of sorts, in the sense that they will be doing work from the ground up, at the grassroots level.
This assignment has two components: a blog entry on a contemporary environmental issue (posted in MI Blog) and a research paper that explores the history of that issue in a particular place. The posts below are based on blog entries students submitted at the beginning of the spring 2014 semester. Their task is to explain to the reader: a) how this place came to have the environmental issue; b) how the issue has shaped both people and place over time; and c) the significance of the study.
This assignment has two components: a blog entry on a contemporary environmental issue (posted in MI Blog) and a research paper that explores the history of that issue in a particular place. The posts below are based on blog entries students submitted at the beginning of the spring 2014 semester. Their task is to explain to the reader: a) how this place came to have the environmental issue; b) how the issue has shaped both people and place over time; and c) the significance of the study.