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Hi, I'm Jason A. Heppler, environmental historian of the twentieth century North American West, Great Plains, and Canadian Prairies. I am the senior developer-scholar at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, adjunct faculty in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and an Affiliate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
My latest books —
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
Digital Community Engagement
Find more of my work on my scholarship page or my CV.
Select recent essays —
Published in the Washington Post
Published in The Conversation
Latest digital scholarship —
Machines in the Valley: Growth, Conflict, and Environmental Politics in Silicon Valley
A spatial history and digital narrative of Silicon Valley.
U.S. Federal Lands
Mapping the federal lands of the U.S.
William F. Cody and the Progressive Wild West
Exploring debates over what I called Reformist Progressives and Enabling Progressives.
Framing Red Power
Exploring how the media covered the Trail of Broken Treaties.
Find more of my work on my digital and public history page.
Recent collaborative digital history —
Connecting Threads
Amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and African Caribbean consumers to global histories of dress.
Death by Numbers
Transcribing and publishing the London Bills of Mortality in a dataset suitable for computational analysis.
The Denig Manuscript
An eighteenth-century Pennsylvania merchant's manuscript and watercolor.
Religious Ecologies
Creating new datasets and visualizations so that we can better understand the history of American religion.
Find more of my work on my digital and public history page.
The Basics
Miscellany
If you'd like to support my writing here and elsewhere, I'd love it if you could buy me a coffee.