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Sep 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
For nearly a century, baseball has been a crucial social and cultural force in Latina/o communities across the United States. And, for just as long, Latino/a players have had a huge impact on the game. ⚾️ #NuestroBaseball
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Explore a few baseball photos from the @AZHistSociety Mexican Heritage Project collection. Follow #NuestroBaseball to discover more photographs and artifacts.
Today commemorates 200 years of Mexican Independence. Arizonans have celebrated #MexicanIndependenceDay since 1821, throwing large parades and parties called "Fiestas Patrias". 1/
This is a photograph from 1920 of the Mexican Independence Day queen and her court riding on a float during a parade in #Tucson.
Increasingly, my research and teaching has revolved around this image. How can we understand and explain not only how climate change works, but also why so much CO2 etc concentrates in the northern hemisphere? The first question is for scientists, the second is for historians 2/
So many historians and scientists are doing great work on climate change, but a few years back I was blown away to learn that around 1/4 of human greenhouse emissions come from the food system. I wanted to understand the history behind that huge number, and here I am. 3/
