This is the 179th 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 27, 2020 – August 2, 2020):
Monday: “‘Being very frank about our history’: As Sierra Club acknowledges racist past, Indigenous communities look for reckoning” by Debra Utacia Krol, AZ Central
Tuesday: “Tahlequah, the orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days, is pregnant again” by Lynda V. Mapes, Seattle Times
Wednesday: “Nature’s Past Episode 69: Environmental Racism and Canadian History” by Sean Kheraj with Ingrid Waldron, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
Thursday: “Nature’s Past Episode 69: Environmental Racism and Canadian History” by Sean Kheraj with Ingrid Waldron, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)
Friday: “Racism in America: A Reader” Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University Press
Saturday: “The Myth of John James Audubon” by Gregory Nobles, Audubon
Sunday: “The Methuselah tree and the secrets of Earth’s oldest organisms” by Robin McKie, The Guardian
Top Words
1. Audubon
2. environmental
3. history
4. racism
5. said
6. Black
7. Canadian
8. people
9. also
10. Environmental
12. will
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