From The Editors

We are pleased to announce another new and exciting issue of Historical Geography. This volume is particularly notable as it is our first published as a University of Nebraska Press journal. It has been a challenging but exciting year as we work out our new relationship and explore the new platform with Nebraska. Our thanks go to our enthusiastic (and patient) partners at the press, Manjit Kaur, Joyce Gettman, and Joel Puchalla. We look forward to growing the journal alongside the University of Nebraska Press over the coming years. Meanwhile, for subscribers, we will continue to keep you up to date as we migrate our back catalogue from the University of New Mexico and revamp our submission process as well.

This volume features material from both old and new friends in historical geography. We present first the text of Craig Colten's 2018 Distinguished Historical Geographer lecture, as delivered at the American Association of Geographers annual conference in New Orleans, the city he has so passionately studied for many years. Craig is a former editor and longtime supporter of this journal, so it is a particular pleasure to feature his reflections on decades of "practicing historical geography." This feature is followed by an engaging special issue exploring "Historical Critical Physical Geographies," edited by Kirsten Greer, Adam Csank, and Katie Hemsworth. This suite of papers and commentaries explores efforts to combine methods and analysis from "traditional" archive-based historical geography and those employed by physical geographers to reconstruct past environmental changes. The result is a thoughtful and diverse set of studies that further advance the discussion of how to best integrate human and physical methods in geography.

In addition to regular research articles and book reviews, this issue also features an insightful conference report on the International Conference of Historical Geographers, held in Warsaw, Poland, in 2018. We are also pleased to present a new feature, courtesy of coeditor Michael Wise: an interview forum with leading thinkers working at the intersection of historical geography and the emerging interdisciplinary field of critical indigenous studies. In the forum interviews, readers will find rich reflections by authors of prominent new work in indigenous studies (and probably add to their own reading lists in the process). This volume is rounded off with our extensive book review section, ably compiled and edited by John T. Bauer.

As ever, we thank the authors, our special issue editors, and our publishing colleagues for their work on this issue, and of course our editorial board and other members of the AAG's Historical Geography Specialty Group for their ongoing support. We are excited to enter this next phase of Historical Geography's publishing history and would love to hear from readers (and writers!) about their impressions of our journal's new look and home, as well as their ideas for the future.