Want to write a peer-reviewed, Oxford Intersections article on the #EnvHist of disasters? Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections offers a quick, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...

“High-speed rail would reduce travel times between Kingston and Toronto to approximately 90 minutes while establishing Kingston as a key regional mobility hub, improving connections and placing up to 80% of residents between Peterborough and Ottawa within a 25-minute drive of a station.”

A few days behind in announcing but I am thrilled to be the 2026-2028 Kobrak Fellow with the Canadian Business History Association, working on a project on Cree economic and political diplomacy with the Hudson’s Bay Company. #Fellowship #IndigenousHistory #BusinessHistory

from "speak of the devil"

“Shoped the Fate of North America”

First CHA in the books!

Congrats to all our 2025-26 MA #PublicHistory students now hard at work at their internships!

Benjamin Rush is a super interesting fellow. I learned recently that Stockton Rush, the Titan submersible guy, was a descendant of Dr. Rush. If I had to guess, this portrait of Rush by Thomas Sully was probably part of Stockton's estate, and sold soon after his death in 2023.

AI psychosis? Try having delusions like a real man, such as when I convinced myself through the power of OCD that I caused the 2008 cyclone in Myanmar

Do you know about our thematic galleries? These special projects bring together many biographies within the context of a theme such as sports, the Acadians, the Fenians, Confederation, and many more. Today's highlighted theme is responsible government. www.biographi.ca/en/theme_gov...

Haul from the local used book store, Berry & Peterson

Does anyone out there have a digital copy of The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert G. Angevine?

Bio of the Day: Hortense Globensky (Prévost) (1804–73). For holding off a group of Patriotes who intended to attack her house, Hortense Globensky-Prévost was called Chevalière des Deux-Montagnes and Héroïne du Nord by newspapers at the time. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/globe...

First course in the works :)

The Department of History at Queen’s University is hiring for the Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History. www.queensu.ca/history/abou... Please help us circulate this advertisement widely in your networks.

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? A NiCHE Series Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026 Edited by @ramya.bsky.social NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage. niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c... #rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

The Brown Homestead, the oldest home in St. Catharines (c. 1796), is hiring for a YCW-funded Museum Educator and Program Assistant: thebrownhomestead.ca/careers It was a great pleasure to work at the Homestead in the summer of 2021. Friends in St. Catharines and Niagara, please circulate widely.

My partner’s family home in St. Catharines is near land granted to Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist and early Niagara settler who served in the War of 1812.

We are accepting proposals for a resident 16-week summer research fellowship, which will investigate a topic relevant to the history of health and health care. ⁠ ⁠⁠ Find the full application details here:https://www.museumofhealthcare.ca/fellowship #histmed #fellowship

Delighted to learn that my PhD dissertation has received the 2026 Research Prize from the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music. The book version, Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars, is out early next year with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social

2) "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c... #cdnhist #envhist #boardgames

Our most-read articles published in January! Links in the thread below. #envhist #cdnhist #urbanhistory

The tripling of Canadian military spending is coming at a huge cost to Canadian historical institutions, museums, archives, and heritage. Canada is going to be all elbows. What are we even protecting?

On Saturday, July 17th, 1943, amidst a lot of other important news, my great-grandpa made front-page-news for winning a car after hanging up on the reporter!

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

A powerful look at how women’s writing during the Seven Years’ War reveals the raw emotion, loss, and humanity often hidden in colonial archives. A moving reminder that behind every global conflict are intimate stories worth remembering. @tlecaque.bsky.social ageofrevolutions.com/2026/03/02/h...

It is #BlackHistoryMonth. John Baker (d. 1871) was “perhaps the last surviving Canadian slave.” Manumitted after 2+ decades of forced labour, he enlisted in the British army, fought in the #WarOf1812, and claimed to have seen Napoleon at Waterloo. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/baker... #BHM

“America, like a child that has been introduced too soon into life, has conducted herself with an offensive pertness and a ridiculous dignity. She would require that England bend to her in mock-tragedy, like the giant paying his court to Tom Thumb.”

"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

A.S. Cogswell, 11th U.S. Infantry, Burlington, 17 July 1813: "We have some very good officers, but a large part of them are the most Ignorant and ugly parcel of rascals that I ever saw. Some of them are men tyrannical and swear worse than those Algerine pirates."

This looks really cool

By the way... Hasphat is a student of Morrowind history. Take the chance to get a little education. And I have a few history books in here. Help yourself. You're welcome to them. No point in being part of history if you're too ignorant to understand it.

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Queen's has released its Bicentennial Vision document today, a strategy for what the university will be as it enters its third century in 2041. The terms "arts," "humanities," and "social science" do not appear anywhere in this document #cdnhist

tfw the ague’s been raging in camp for months, it’s humid as hell, the bread has shit particles in it, and now the trees are speaking Mohawk just another day on the Niagara frontier in 1813

If you watch the War of 1812 episode of CBC’s “Canada: The Story of Us,” you’ll see me, amongst others, get ambushed by Tecumseh, surrender Fort Detroit, and die at Fort York.

Anyone out there have access to old British newspapers that can help me track down an obituary for Major-General Thomas Blanshard, born 1789, died 19 June 1859? I suspect he’s the same Blanshard responsible for burning down the White House in 1814. I’m trying to find his birthplace.

The strongest of us live long after death, so that we may guide and protect our children and kinsmen; we speak of such strong spirits as Heroes and Wise Women in our songs, sung so we may not forget their wisdoms and gifts.

DESERTED from the Barracks at Burlington [Vt.] on the 11th May inst. JOHN FISK, an enlisted Soldier, born in Stodard, New Hampshire; aged twenty two years; five feet eight and half inches high, light complexion, light eyes, light hair, & by profession a farmer - has lately resided in Cavendish, Vt.

Anyone have access to these sources? Parker, Wilmond W. "Letters of the War of 1812 in the Champlain Valley." Vermont Quarterly 12 (1944): 104-113. Campbell, Karen S. "Propaganda, Pestlience, and Prosperity: Burlington's Camptown during the War of 1812." Vermont History 64 (1996): 133-158.

This book claims to have been printed on the frozen River Thames in 1814 during the last of the great frost fairs! Frostiana, published by G. Davis in 1814 (Syn.7.81.93)

"During the winters of 1812-1813 and 1813-1814, the British conducted at least three overland winter marches from Fredericton, New Brunswick to reinforce vulnerable points in Upper Canada and Lower Canada." - @jakebreadman.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/02/28/a... #envhist #cdnhist #warhistory

Check out this recent piece by Jake Breadman, former Honours u'grad in Brock History (we've all got a stake @jakebreadman.bsky.social !!) Nice work Jake.

Check out this recent article by Jake Breadman, former MA Public History field graduate.

Today we have "Cardboard Battlefields in 1812: The Invasion of Canada" by @jakebreadman.bsky.social This is the eleventh article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series, edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/01/07/c... #envhist #warhistory

Hi folks, Would anyone in Washington, D.C. be willing to scan archival documents at NARA for a scared Canadian? I’d be willing to pay per hour tho’ I’m a lowly grad student. Sincerely, Scared Canadian

I missed Tolkien’s birthday on the 3rd, but here’s my latest fun read.

Christmas was wonderful.