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Just when we thought we couldn’t get bigger, we smashed our annual readership statistics in 2023 and surpassed 200,000 viewers for the first time (216,459 to be exact!). Thanks to everyone who has helped make us a center for global environmental research publishing.
To give you a sense of what we accomplished last year, here’s NiCHE by the numbers:
- 286 posts
- 315,500 words
- 122,441 site visitors
- 6 book reviews
- 20 NiCHE Conversations episodes
The Top-Five Most-Read Posts of 2023 are:
5) “Emotional Ecologies: An Introduction” by Sarah York-Bertram and Jessica DeWitt
4) “Visualizing the History of Energy in the United States, 1780-2021” by Cutler Cleveland and Heather Clifford
3) “Erich Fromm’s Biophilia” by Julia Ludewig
2) “Cod, Colonialism, and the Anthropocene” by Sandy Hunter
1) “Tornado in Niagara: An 18th Century Canadian Catastrophe” by Jessica Linzel
We are lucky to have such amazing contributors and a large team of brilliant editors to work with them! We are excited to see where our continued momentum takes us in 2024! Cheers, all!
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- Podcast – Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada - June 20, 2024
- Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize: The 2024 Winner - June 19, 2024
- Canceled – Canadian Historical Association Environmental History Business Meeting - June 11, 2024
- Announcing the “NiCHE at 20” Merchandise Collection! - June 8, 2024
- ESEH-Gale Non-Residential Fellowships in Digital Environmental History - May 30, 2024
- Online Event – Publishing Water Histories - May 29, 2024
- Online Event – Narrating Ukrainian Rivers - May 23, 2024
- NiCHE at 20: Cultivating Community in Environmental History – The Recording - May 7, 2024