This is the 120th 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 (June 10, 2019 – June 16, 2019): #Hypocrite who claims that environmental …
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CHA Reads 2019 – Jessica DeWitt on Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil that Covered a Continent
This post originally appeared on Unwritten Histories as part of CHA Reads 2019. The nearly iridescent blue of the flax flower jumps off the cover of Joshua Macfadyen’s Flax Americana: A History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent immediately challenging the reader’s perception of this under-appreciated fibre crop. At the same time as one’s …
Comps Notes: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West Jules David Prown, et.al. …
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Comps Notes: Goetzmanns’ The West of the Imagination
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. The West of the Imagination William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann In The West of the …
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Said, Data, ZooArchNet
This is the 116th 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 (May 13, 2019 – May 19, 2019): New data platform illuminates history …
Comps Notes: Gibson’s Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods James R. Gibson James R. Gibson, Otter …
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Environmental, Bees, History
This is the 114th 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 (April 29, 2019 – May 5, 2019): An overview of themes …
Comps Notes: Bold’s Selling the Wild West
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960 Christine Bold The …
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Students, Cards, Virginia
This is the 113th 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 (April 22, 2019 – April 28, 2019): For #EarthDay read up on …
Comps Notes: Wister’s The Virginian
I decided to publish my write-ups from my comprehensive exam reading fields. I am publishing them *as is.* Thus they represent my thoughts as a new PhD student. They were written between September 2011 and July 2012. The full collection is accessible here. The Virginian Owen Wister Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (New York: MacMillan …
Jessica M. DeWitt: Editing and Consulting 