Sara Wilmshurst
Active History recently circulated a survey that asked readers how they use the site, what they like about it, and what they would like to see in the future. The respondents provided fantastic feedback, and we would like to thank them and share what we learned.
Our Reach
Active History has been publishing for 15 years. In that time there have been over 2.5 million site visits. The site hosts an archive of over 2,600 essays. We have readers in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Germany, France, the Philippines, the Netherlands, and Italy.
Active History’s most popular post, Crystal Fraser and Sara Komarnisky’s “150 Acts of Reconciliation for the Last 150 Days of Canada’s 150,” has been viewed over 164,000 times since it was published in August 2017. Many Active History posts get consistent traffic year over year. Timothy J. Stanley’s essay “John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion” has received between 1,588 and 6,970 views each year since it was published in 2015. A post from back in 2012, “Marie-Joseph Angelique: Remembering the Arsonist Slave of Montreal” by Mireille Mayrand-Fiset, is still among our top posts of all time, with hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of visits each year.
Posts get traffic year over year in part because students access them; 80% of the educators who responded to our survey assign Active History posts in their classes.
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