This is the twenty-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 (August 28 – September 3, 2017):

Monday: “Manufacturing Paradise” by Ana Portnoy Brimmer, la Pupila

Tuesday: “Call for Associate Editors 2017,” Environmental Humanities

Wednesday: “Why Environmental History Is Black History” by Samantha Cole, Motherboard

Thursday: “International Conference on Environmental Humanities,” Postgraduate Forum: Environment, Literature, Culture

Friday: “80 Percent of Young Environmental Scientists Could Use More Natural History Training” by Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American

Saturday: “Portugal’s Cork Industry” by Melissa Charenko, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)

Sunday: “New ways to imagine an old city” by Robert C.H. Sweeny, Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)

Top Words

1. natural

2. history 

3. will

4. cork

5. people

6. can

7. Columbus

8. paradise

9. Puerto

10. land

Published by Jessica M. DeWitt

Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt is an environmental historian of Canada and the United States. She is passionate about the use of digital technologies to bridge the gap between the public and researchers. In addition to her community and professional work, she offers various editing and social media consultancy services.

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