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Birds and Nature was a captivating monthly publication from the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago, featuring a delightful mix of short poems, engaging anecdotes, and factual insights about birds, animals, and the wonders of the natural world. Accompanied by beautiful color plates, this magazine enchanted readers from 1897 to 1907, appearing under various titles such as Birds, Birds and all Nature, Nature and Art, and Birds and Nature. Join us as we explore the charm and beauty of nature through the eyes of J. M. Smallheer.

Featuring primary sources from figures of the period, Van Young discusses the political instability of the period—internal warfare, military uprisings, intermittent dictatorships, sharp conflicts among political groupings—and attributes them to a belief by political actors in the fundamental lack of legitimacy in central government institutions after the sweeping away of the Bourbon imperial structure and its replacement first with a very short-lived Mexican empire followed by a series of increasingly authoritarian aspirational republican constitutions.

A podcast that explores the dark side of life: true crime, horror, & more.