This is the 102nd post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared among Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week.

Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (February 4, 2018 – February 10, 2018):

Monday: “Problems of Place: Contingent Geographies” by Willa Hammitt Brown, Environmental History Now


Tuesday: Why Environmental History Is Black History” by Samantha Cole, Motherboard


Wednesday: “The Quest for Environmental Justice and the Politics of Place and Race” by Robert Bullard, The Climate Reality Project


Thursday: (Un)Natural Identities: Unearthing Gender in Environmental History” by Sarah Wilson, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)


Friday: Problems of Place: Place and Placelessness in Academia” by Heather Green, Environmental History Now


Saturday: Investigating the Environment in the Past and Present: Environmental Literacy Programming for History–Social Science Teachers” by Shelley Brooks, Ten Strands


Sunday: The Four Most Thought-Provoking Environmental Books Coming in February” by John R. Platt, EcoWatch 

Top Words

1. environmental

2. history

3. place

4. gender

5. people

6. home

7. American

8. one

9. work

10. Nature

Published by Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States. She is passionate about the use of digital technologies to bridge the gap between the public and researchers. In addition to her community and professional work, she offers various editing and social media consultancy services.

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