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Elizabeth Kryder-Reid

A group of people are gathered around a wooden picnic table in a covered pavilion with trees and grass visible in the background and there are laminated pages spread out on the table.
Interpreters at the Benjamin Harrison State Park explain how the watershed affects water quality throughout the city.

Welcome to Teaching Toxic Heritage!

This open access resource is designed to support teaching and learning about issues of environmental harm and their intersection with formal and informal memory practices.

At its heart is the belief that we can move toward a more sustainable future only if we understand the relationships of past and present — both how we got to this time of ecological crisis and how the past is deployed in contemporary exercises of power.

These educational resources are designed to spur critical thinking, build skills and competencies, excite curiosity, and inspire action in response to pervasive environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate emergency. They are relevant to scholars and students working across a range of disciplines including heritage studies, environmental humanities and sciences, archaeology, anthropology, geography, museum studies, political science, sociology, public history, and cultural studies.

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