Comps Notes: Rosa’s Wild Bill Hickok

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. Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth Joseph C. Rosa  Joseph C. …

Comps Notes: Pomeroy’s In Search of the Golden 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. In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America Earl Pomeroy …

Comps Notes: Careless’ “Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History”

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. “Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History” J.M. Careless Published one year before Earl Pomeroy’s “Toward …

Nuclear, New, Says

This is the 127th 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 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019): Scientists propose changing the rules …

Comps Notes: Pomeroy’s “Toward a Reorientation of Western History”

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. “Toward a Reorientation of Western History: Continuity and Environment” Earl Pomeroy Earl Pomeroy, …

Comps Notes: The West as America

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 as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 Edited by William …

Que, Liberty, Falwell

This is the 126th 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 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019): E o Queiroz?https://t.co/MqujXaBrNt por @ggreenwald, …

Said, People, Climate

This is the 125th 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 15, 2019 – July 21, 2019): Parks Canada strikes 1st agreement …

University, Professor, History

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): So seen. So very very …

Comps Notes: Hyde’s An American Vision

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. An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820-1920 Anne Farrar Hyde …