This is the 123rd 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 among environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (July 1, 2019 – July 7, 2019):

Monday: “If The Democratic Primary Field Was a University History Department,” Notes from the Ironbound 


Tuesday: An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum” by Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al., The New York Review of Books


Wednesday: “Can New York hit its environmental goals?” by Rebecca C. Lewis, City & State New York


Thursday: Morgane Oger to seek federal NDP nomination in Vancouver riding” by Zak Vescera, Vancouver Sun


Friday: ‘What to the Slave Is 4th of July?’: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech,” Democracy Now!


Saturday: Greenbelt ‘crisis’ warning,Halesowen News


Sunday: Post-doctoral contract ‘Environment in Eastern and Northern Asia’,” L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Top Words

1. University

2. Professor

3. History

4. Associate

5. Studies

6. Holocaust

7. Jewish

8. Director

9. College

10. New

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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