This is the seventy-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 9 – July 15, 2018):

https://twitter.com/Sean_Munger/status/1016165042855669760

Monday: “Only You: The somewhat depressing history of Smokey the Bear” by Sean Munger, SeanMunger.com

https://twitter.com/KReilly16/status/1016573148123226112

Tuesday: “Uses of Environmental History: Lise Sedrez” by Lise Sedrez, Seeing the Woods: A Blog by the Rachel Carson Center

https://twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/status/1016893330859294726

Wednesday: “How Brett Kavanaugh Could Reshape Environmental Law From the Supreme Court” by Brad Plumer, The New York Times

Thursday: “The Great Migration and Black Environmental History: An Interview with Brian McCammack” by J.T. Roane, Black Perspectives

Friday: “Exxon quits ALEC” by Kyla Mandel, ThinkProgress

https://twitter.com/benvwilkie/status/878197621826830336

Saturday: “Newmarket Saleyards Photograph Collection” by Snjez Cosic, Museums Victoria 

Sunday: “Liberating Scotland’s “slaves of the soil”” by Cecilia Keating, CIM Magazine 

Top Words

1. environmental

2. climate

3. nature

4. Smokey 

5. history

6. change

7. like

8. black

9. years

10. also

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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