Comps Notes: America and the Middle East

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. America and the Middle East Peter L. Hahn, Crisis and Crossfire: The United States …

Charlottesville, Comey, Replace

This is the twenty-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 (August 14 – August 20, 2017): https://twitter.com/aaron_con_leche/status/896442490990899200 Monday: “To Protect and Troll: Police …

Said, Climate, People

This is the twenty-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. Here are the top articles amongst environmental historians and humanities scholars this past week (August 7 – August 13, 2017): The loyal engineers steering NASA’s Voyager probes …

Twitter, Clinton, One

This is the twenty-second 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 (July 24 – July 30, 2017): Time and a Place: An Environmental History …

Plastic, Horne, New

This is the twenty-first 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 (July 17 – July 23, 2017): Canadian officials confirm largest earthquake caused by …

Smith, Emails, Campaign

This is the seventeenth 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 (June 26 – July 2, 2017): Monday: “Archives Theme Week: Creating Dialogue Between Archivists …

Environmental, Indigenous, States

This is the fourteenth 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 (June 5 – June 11, 2017): Monday: “Inventing (the) English: Racism, Multilingualism and …

Sand, World, Said

This is the thirteenth 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 29 – June 4, 2017): Monday: “Our Universities Aren’t Earning the Money …

One, Trump, Says

This is the twelfth 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 22 – May 28, 2017): Monday: “How Thousand-Year-Old Trees Became the New …

Said, Komodo, History

This is the eleventh 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 15 – May 21, 2017): Monday: “Canadian History Roundup – Week of …