Ben Hoy contributes interview to this story on the history of the Canada-US border. www.nsnews.com/local-news/a...

Announcing the 2025 #USaskArtSci Alumni of Influence! Five outstanding USask graduates who inspire others. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

Congratulations to colleagues Ben Hoy, Jim Clifford, Paula MacDowell, Judy Jaunzems Fernuk and Jessy Lee Saas on winning a prestigious D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning for the game Homesteaders! artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

Congrats to our Executive member, @stundenbower.bsky.social, on be shortlisted for the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize! And extra congrats to the other nominees as well! #cdnhist #envhist #aghist

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize! #cdnhist #prize

Five of our department's PhD Candidates presented their research at their 990 Colloquium today. Congratulations to Justin Fisher, Kiera Mitchell, Dasha Guliak, Derek Cameron and Patrick Lee on a job well done. Five very interesting research projects and great questions from the audience!

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Neufeld on promotion to full professor. This is very well deserved. Matthew was recognized at the College's RSAW Celebration.

Congratulations to Erika Dyck, Jim Clifford and Nazeem Muhajarine on receiving an RSAW Publicly Engaged Scholar Team Award for their work on The Remember/Rebuild Saskatchewan project and Cheryl Troupe on receiving the College's RSAW New Scholar Award. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Cheryl Troupe on the publication of Putting Down Roots. uofmpress.ca/books/puttin...

Saskatoon Pelican

Red Dress Day is May 5: All members of the #USask community are invited to gather in front of Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre on Monday, May 5 from 11am - 1pm to show their support for ending violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

Congratulations to two of Dr. Ben Hoy’s undergraduate students, Andrew Kelly and Marissa Moberg, who attended the 2025 Crossing Borders Conference at Niagara University on March 29. Andrew was also awarded the Best Paper prize! This is a huge accomplishment for both students.

Read about History Department alum Dr. Candice Klein as she talks about her work with Saskatoon Sexual Health in a recent news article. thestarphoenix.com/news/local-n...

Join us for a panel discussion on "Psychedelic Humanities or Humanistic Psychedelics? What the Humanities Can (and Can't) Contribute to the Psychedelic Landscape." Tuesday, April 1 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM at Louis' Loft

Happening Thursday March 20 at 4pm. The USask Museum of Antiquities will be hosting the first of its 50th anniversary celebration events in March, starting with a special guest lecture by Dr. Nathan. T. Elkins, Deputy Director of the American Numismatic Society, on the Colosseum on Roman coins.

I'm taking part in a round table, organized by a student group called Inspired 2 Uplift, focused on learning disabilities and other invisible disabilities on campus. The location changed to 211, Arts Building. Tonight at 5pm. Free pizza! @usaskartsci.bsky.social @usask.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Neufeld (USask) and Sabine Jesner (Museum of Military History, Vienna) on the recent publication of their edited collection, Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660-1830. This is an open access title and available at www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com

Are you a History Major? Considering a Major History? Join Prof. Mark Meyers, in collaboration with the College’s Undergraduate Student Office for a group advising session. Mon, Mar 31 from 12:30-1:30pm in ARTS 208. Please register for the session here: www.eventbrite.com/e/major-in-m...

Check out this recent Active History post by our colleague, Dr. Robert Englebert activehistory.ca/blog/2025/03...

Deadline to apply: Today at 11:59PM! Open to anyone with 30 cu course work or 3 cu History. The application is easy to complete; reference letters can come in after the deadline. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students! artsandscience.usask.ca/history/stud...

Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Cheryl Troupe, who is receiving an Order of Gabriel Dumont Gold Medal.

This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia... #envhist #climhist #climatechange

Join Rural History Roundtable on Weds March 12 (330-5pm EST) as Kimberley Moore and @janisthiessen.bsky.social from University of Winnipeg present "Mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat" Register for this free Zoom talk here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/mmm-manito... All are welcome! #cdnhist

Join our Department on March 26 for Dr. Jim Clifford's 7 Nights of History talk titled, "July 16, 1945: The Day the Anthropocene Didn't Begin". March 26, 2025 Starts at 6:30pm and Better Brothers Brewing.

Our Historicizing Adaptation series begins today with an introduction by @stundenbower.bsky.social! This series will feature environmental historians and scholars in allied fields reflecting on adaptation in historical perspective. niche-canada.org/2025/02/27/i... #envhist #adaptation

#BlackHistoryMonth Reading "Environmental Racism and the Climate Emergency: An Interview with Ingrid Waldron" niche-canada.org/2021/09/23/e... #envhist #cdnhist

A significant photographic archive of 80s Halifax queer and women’s rights movement

So pleased that Mary Baxter @nichecanada.bsky.social chose the third post in @lootina.bsky.social and my series, "The Place Where You Live," as their Editor's Pick for February! Check out these wonderful pieces on places in China and India. #envhist #envhum niche-canada.org/2024/12/06/t...

Interested in Study Abroad courses? We are offering History 272: Human Rights in History, taught by Dr. Mark Meyers in May 2025. Class is May 5-30 (MTWThF 9:30am-12:00pm), with mandatory travel to Winnipeg May 5-9. Travel will be subsidized. Applications due March 10. See poster for details.

Happening tomorrow! Dr. Valerie Korinek will be giving the next 7 Nights of History talk titled: "June 28, 1969: The Stonewall Riots: The Spark That Lit Gay, Lesbian and Trans Rights." Join us February 26 at Better Brother's Brewing. 6:30 pm. Open to the public.

Our Department is currently inviting applications for the Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Britain and the British World. This is a two-year fellowship starting September 1, 2025. Deadline for applications is March 7, 2025.

The Canadian Encyclopedia asked @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I to help set the record straight on the legacy of John A. Macdonald. Rather than unapologetically celebrate Macdonald, we argue he should be remembered, not exalted or emulated: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/j...

If you are a Canadian historian who's not part of this starter pack, or know of one, please do tag yourself/them and I can add you!

Cool to see this post, which arose from a graduate course that Tina Loo and I taught in the fall, top NiCHE's December list! 🤩 We'll be talking about this series with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 18th, 12pm PT/3 pm ET, for NiCHE Conversations. Join us!

In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.

Reminder: Join us on Jan 22 for Dr. Erika Dyck ‘s 7 Nights of History talk. Starts at 6:30 - Better Brother Brewing. Open to the public. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

"The transfer of land from Indigenous peoples to European powers and then to the Canadian government and settlers had, and continues to have, profound consequences for both people and land." - Jocelyn Thorpe niche-canada.org/2016/04/27/i... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

ICYMI: "Almost without exception, Survivors talked about the places they were born and raised. They described the Land that nurtured them and their relationships with Land." - Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/01/09/h... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

Mary Jane McCallum, Erin Millions and Anne Lindsay on the incarceration of Geraldine Mason and ogoing colonialism: indigenoustbhistory.ca/news/a-state...

Looking forward to presenting as part of this speaker series organized by Mary Jane Logan McCallum. You can register online: indigenoustbhistory.ca/news/lecture...

Graduate Student Opportunity with the Canadian Museum of Nature - @museumofnature.bsky.social Application Deadline - 2 March 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/01/14/g... #envhist #histsci #nathist #museums

Read a review of the Western Canadian History Conference in the latest issue of Prairie History. If you presented at the conference and are interested in publishing your paper, please reach out to the journal at [email protected]

"The pandemic temporarily created the political will to confront the relationship between health and poverty, recognizing for a moment that “we are all in this together”." @erikadyck.bsky.social and @jimclifford.bsky.social's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11...

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Harris Ford for his recent publication in Prairie History. His artifactual column, titled “Chinese Pilots in Saskatoon Skies: The Keng Wah Aviation School, 1919-1922” is published in a Special Edition on Aviation history.

CFP: Wild or domestic? Research on Artificial Bird Nesting Sites, Tuesday, 6 May 2025, ONLINE We'll bring researchers together to discuss research on artificial bird nesting sites in historical, archeological, artistic, and literary sources. Any time period and geography. #envhist #envhum

Congrats to our colleague, Dr. Jim Clifford! Looking forward to upcoming issues of the journal.

Looking forward to hearing USask History PhD Dr. Letitia Johnson talk about her work.

History Now! Black Heritage in Southwestern Ontario Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 3:00-4:30pm. In celebration of Black History Month, Museum London is honored to present Black Heritage in Southwestern Ontario: A Roundtable with Curators and Historians.

Join the Department of History on January 22 at Better Brothers Brewing for a talk by Dr. Erika Dyck titled, “June 15, 1943: Susi Ramstein Takes LSD and Inspires a Feminist Counterculture.” Starts at 6:30. Open to the Public.