Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵
@haydenlnelson
PhD in History | Environmental and Indigenous History in the American West & Borderlands | Writing an Environmental History of the North Woods | Research Historian @ Minnesota Historical Society | WI➡️MT➡️KS➡️MN haydenlnelson.com
So amazing to experience between about 6 to 8 humpback whales bubble net feeding off the coast of Juneau.
The Austrian artist Franz Hölzlhuber visited the United States in the 1850s, painting a series of watercolors from his travels. During the summer of 1859, he rode a train between Lansing and Grand Haven in Michigan that got caught in a fire. firearchive.omeka.net/items/show/64
Bluesky Friends! I’ll be giving a talk at 1pm CDT next Tuesday at the International Falls Public Library. I’ll be expanding upon the work I’ve published on the V&RL and its relation to the end of industrial logging in MN. If you’re up in the International Falls/Fort Frances area, please stop by!
A beautiful time in Boulder, Colorado these last few days with the Applied History Initiative.
Scenes from a 3-night camping trip over Memorial Day weekend 📍Itasca State Park
It’s not every day you’re browsing an old newspaper on a different topic and randomly come across a wild story from your hometown. “Cow and Dog in Love,” The Oconto Falls Herald (Oconto Falls, Wis.), June 1, 1906.
Really excited to dig into this for @animalhistory.bsky.social. Review coming later this year. #animalhistory #envhist #envhum
Come check me out Thursday morning @midwesternhistory.bsky.social #envhist
Here’s a turkey in the middle of St. Paul (at the Minnesota History Center) to brighten your day.
Which author outside of your field had the most influence on your scholarly development? I took a Latin American History course during my MA @umontana.bsky.social and came across Eduardo Galeano. I appreciated how direct and to the point he was, and how “angry” he wrote.
And here’s a nice synopsis of my chapter from the book’s introduction.
Got my author’s copy today! Here’s a sneak peek of the table of contents and my chapter.
Keep in mind this was only about 40 years ago. I’d recommend checking out Larry Nesper’s work (either his books or talks on YouTube) to learn more about the Walleye Wars and their eventual Supreme Court rulings.
Since I no longer have any dog in the race, I’m hoping for a UConn vs. Arizona NCAAM basketball championship based solely off of these two elite logos.
I’m proud to share that I’ve won this year’s Public History Grant from the Agricultural History Society! I plan to use this support to spend a week in Chicago this summer at the NARA branch and the Chicago History Museum. Thankful for the generous support from the AHS and their belief in my work!
As a Wisconsinite it pains me to say this, but Minnesota has some good beers, too.
Interested in the history of logging? Check out this piece I wrote for MNopedia on the Virginia & Rainy Lake Company, which at the time of its amalgamation in 1908 was the largest white pine lumber company in the world. www.mnhs.org/mnopedia/sea...
In love with this cover and proud to have contributed to this important work. 🔥 coming August 26, 2026. Available for preorder here with @univpressofkansas.bsky.social: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641994/
Research day on logging and forestry under the ever-present gaze of big Fred W. How fitting.
Family weekend in Milwaukee with a tour of the Miller Brewing Company and a Bucks game!