EHN is proud to celebrate eight years of publishing. To finish off this year’s anniversary week, the core editorial team selected three essays that spoke to them personally, which you can read below. First, we […]
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community for Environmental History and Environmental Humanities
Category: EHN Anniversary Week
Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Notes from the Beinecke’s Rachel Carson Exhibit
“Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson’s Environmental Vision,” an exhibit curated by Carla Baricz and James Kessenides, is on display on the second floor of Yale University’s Beinecke Library until October 4, 2026. In late […]
Disruptive Reciprocity: A Review of The US Military and the Pacific Environment
The edited volume explores how the Pacific environment influences and disrupts US military operations.
Lakebody: Living Waters at Great Salt Lake
I am sitting on the shores of the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City, Utah. The scorching sun beats down on my back, and I am the only one who has braved the 20-minute […]
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Neoliberalization of Academia
Wondering about the unexpected consequences of the neoliberal turn of universities, we reflect on how to challenge the neoliberal model of academia in a way that keeps the academic door open to people of all backgrounds and fights against the commodification of knowledge.
Living with Smoke: A Comic for the Fire Season
This essay was originally published in June 2024 in NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment. Each year, British Columbia’s (BC) wildfire seasons force us to reckon with two stories about fire that are simultaneously […]
Collective Memory and Survivance
With an emphasis on place-based memory and naming, this volume brings forward deeply rooted and complex human relationships with language and the Northern landscape.
Strange Assemblages: The Environmental Uncanny and the British Wildlife Park
The zoo, a space that once spoke to human domination over nature, now proves a morally loaded stage on which the biodiversity crisis slips out of our hands.