Said, Water, Trump

This is the tenth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (May 8 – May 14, 2017): Monday: “E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific …

Rule, Said, CHANGED

This is the ninth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (May 1 – May 7, 2017): Monday: “When Communism Inspired Americans” by Vivian Gornick, The New …

Environmental, Climate, Students

This is the eighth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 24-April 30, 2017): Monday: “An Evolving Conversation: Environmental History and Current Events” …

Earth, Will, Said

This is the seventh post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 17-April 23, 2017): Monday: “The most robot-proof job of them all” by David …

Google, Canadian, New

This is the sixth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 10-April 16, 2017): Monday: “Is That Skeleton Gay? The Problem With Projecting …

Water, Milk, Canyon

This is the sixth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (April 3-April 9, 2017): Monday: “Letter From a Drowned Canyon” by Rebecca Solnit, The …

American, People, Said

This is the fifth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (March 27-April 2, 2017): Monday: “Princess Dashkova: The Princess and the Unicorn” by …

Said, Jesse, Trump

This is the fourth post in my series that explores the most-used words in the top stories shared amongst Environmental Historians and Environmental Humanities scholars on Twitter each week. I’ve was pleased up to this point that Trump didn’t make it to the top of the weekly wordcloud list, but this fourth week ends this …

Extinction, EPA, People

The prominence of “extinction” and “Irish” in this week’s wordcloud has the capacity to get the “What about Irish Slaves?” charmers up in arms. This week illustrates the anxiety around environmental politics in the United States and the growing prominence of topics like extinction in public and scholarly dialogues. In environmental history we are increasingly looking at …

Wordcloud Experiment Week #2: said, New, Indigenous

Last week I announced my new #EnvHist wordcloud initiative. I got some positive feedback. I’m still struggling with how to meld this into some kind of thoughtful analysis. I’m willing to let this experiment evolve naturally, continue as it is, or let it die naturally. Either route leads to some fun visualization, thus, win-win. Here are …