I am the author of The Hobo: A History of America’s First Climate Migrants, as well as articles on various topics in environmental history, mostly related to climate and energy in the United States. These include:
- “Hobos, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870-1922,” Agricultural History (2023) https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article/97/1/1/343537/Hoboes-Wheat-and-Climate-Precarity-1870-1922 (winner of the Alice Hamilton (American Society for Environmental History) and Vernon Carstensen (Agricultural History Society) Prizes)
- “Beyond Rainmaking: Climate Engineering on the Nineteenth Century Great Plains,” Western Historical Quarterly (2023) https://academic.oup.com/whq/article/54/2/137/7087038
- “Estimating Energy Flows in the Long Run: Agriculture in the United States, 1800-2020,” with Elisabeth J. Moyer, Historical Methods (2024) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01615440.2024.2375714
- “Energy Transitions in U.S. History, 1800-2019,” with Nathan J. Matteson and Elisabeth J. Moyer, Working Paper (this is available as a working paper but has not yet completed peer review) https://robertsuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/af43c-suits_matteson_moyer_2020_energy_transitions.pdf
Robert Suits 