I have a new post on The Champlain Society's Findings/Trouvailles Blog. I'm very grateful for excellent feedback from Paul Beck and the editors.

Historians when someone asks for help reading handwriting.

Today’s post, by Aidan Hughes from @uguelphhist.bsky.social, explores the history of women’s bodybuilding.

If I had a child I'd want to name them Judith, but their middle name would have to be AfterJudithButlerNOTMy Grandmother.

John Price’s second post on Canada’s history of involvement with Palestine is out now.

Today’s post, by John Price, is the first of a two part series exploring Zionism and Palestine through the work of Elizabeth MacCallum.

Happy #DogDay to my study buddy.

Any bilingual grad students who would like to make some money in August? I have a 5-page document in need of translation from English to French and my translator is suddenly unavailable.

Stages of moving house: - Surely this is enough boxes. - Why do I love someone with such heavy hobbies? - Where did all the boxes go? - Dumpster diving. - Maybe "Rumors" will get me through this. - Googling "burglars for hire near me" and "radical minimalism."

Previously Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner explored the YWCA’s role in Residential Schools and Indian Hospital systems in Canada. They also called for blog series proposal submissions. More information about submissions can be found at the end of the article. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...

@yourewrongabout.bsky.social delighted to inform you that a tailless but otherwise very dishy coyote was cruising around the cemetery where I walked this morning. He must have overhead me listening to you and Lulu!

In today’s post Edward Dunsworth explores and critiques the use of AI in scholarship, academia, and the classroom. Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/06...

Join Active History for a quick snack break between our CHA Roundtable and the CCWGH reception. Meet us at The Jason George (100 Front St E) at 5:15pm on Monday, June 2 for complimentary refreshments! Past and future AH authors especially welcome. Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/j438h88x

I bring a real "capitalism is a death cult" energy to business transactions and people don't seem to like it.

@sarawilmshurst.bsky.social PhD student @uguelphhist.bsky.social talks about her volunteer work with @activehist.bsky.social.

In today’s post Mack Penner @mackpenner.bsky.social explores the evolution of neoliberalism. Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05...

I'm in the airport parking lot and two dudes are making friends while their cars charge. Maybe mass electric vehicle adoption will finally end the male loneliness epidemic.

Tell me how you're different from aaaallll the other supposed "boat companies" who have promised to let me do my best sea captain impression on my way to family dinner. I've been hurt before and it's hard to trust.

In today’s post, @jasonnichols1980.bsky.social explores housing challenges in First Nations communities. Following the 2025 re-election of the Liberal Party, he draws on historical context to offer insights and suggestions for reconciliation and future housing strategies.

Tip from your friendly neighborhood editor: if you can insert "by vampires" after the verb, it's passive voice. "What can be learned from this experience?" = "What can be learned by vampires from this experience?" Protect your writing from vampires and use the active voice!

I have a theory that people who read #Murderbot Diaries think of Murderbot as a femme and people who listened to the audiobooks think of them as masc. Because I was ASTONISHED to see Alexander Skarsgård cast.

My gratitude journal includes the designer at @oxfordacademic.bsky.social who typesets the footnotes in books. I'm sure it's very picky work (hence why most presses use endnotes) but we appreciate the footnotes very much!

Professor (Assistant or Associate) – Canadian & Indigenous History. Deadline: April 25, 2025. #cdnhist #skystorians cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Do they not sell Heritage Minute merch anymore?????

Join Sara Wilmshurst as she talks with historians from @acadiensis.bsky.social, @activehist.bsky.social, @histoireengagee.ca, and @nichecanada.bsky.social to discuss their projects’ histories, structures, and future plans related to knowledge mobilization and public history online.

Register to join our panelists and moderators for a critical discussion on the political use of history! westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/regi... With @histoireengagee.ca and @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

In today’s post Kristin Burnett and Shannon Stettner explore the YWCA’s role in Residential Schools and Indian Hospital systems in Canada. They also call for blog series proposal submissions.

I have been working so hard. Unfortunately, it was on the thing that needs to be done in 3-5 years, not the thing that needs to be done tomorrow.

In today’s post Jacob Richard explores the history of bison and colonialism in the wake of the Hudson’s Bay Company closures.

I’ve got a new piece out today for @activehist.bsky.social, with Crystal Fraser and Jackson Pind, on understanding Robert Carney’s connections to colonial schooling *and* challenging the dangers of denialism: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...

In today’s post June Chow looks at Chinese Canadian immigration through archives, community memory, and the right to remember.

Schrödinger's archival file is both totally irrelevant and essential to your research process until you open it. Take lunch and enjoy the frisson of possibility for another 20 minutes.

Also, if you like Emma’s shirt listing amazing Indigenous theorists, you can buy one! They are part of a fundraiser for the MIRI’s prison research project. secureca.imodules.com/s/1439/17/ev...

NO ONE IS SAFE UNTIL WE ARE ALL SAFE. That's got to be your mantra now. Better late to recognizing and dismantling the white supremacy that does not keep you safe, than hoping against all evidence it somehow will.

I just thoughtlessly moved my insoles from my snow boots to my hiking boots so if there's a blizzard tonight, sorry, that's on me.

New mini-series revisiting some of our posts for Women’s History Month! Check out our first spotlight and the collection here: linktr.ee/activehistory

Holding this image in my heart as we approach cycling season. Credit: Illustration from The Illustrated Police News, July 1899.

Good think @ianmosby.bsky.social has our backs with multiple eggless cake recipes.

A couple of years ago, I posted that if people wanted to understand how to operate in hostile "information environments" they would be much better off listening to union organizers than disinformation experts. I still basically believe that.

An absolute banger from Valentina Capurri: "Disability can teach us that despite our illusions of independence, we are all interdependent, and this does not signify failure."

My interview with genetic genealogist Dr. Blaine Bettinger is up on Active History today! I would be thrilled to interview other genealogy practitioners, so please message me if you are interested.

Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada

If you're trying to find your way in these times and want to take action, don't forget that @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book for you. ❤️

Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Tues, Feb 18th at 3pm EST on Instagram Live @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social will be joined by @lootina.bsky.social & @tinaadcock.bsky.social to chat about their The Place Where You Live assignment and series. Follow NiCHE on Insta: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

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

Flip, books are great. You mean someone had all sorts of ideas and/or learned a bunch of stuff then explained it all in a handy package, so I can read it and know that stuff too? I can get it from the library for FREE? Prime. Fabulous. No notes.

"Public understanding of the Ontario Heritage Act is generally poor, and as a consequence, there are quite a number of pervasive misconceptions about what the Act really does and what heritage designation really means." The Brown Homestead's Sara Nixon has a second essay up today.

Reminder: "Sometimes, 'bearing witness' feels like the only thing we can do, but the relentless consumption of suffering and injustice does not change anyone’s material conditions. It may feel like we’re doing something, but during such moments, we are experiencing an impact rather than having one."

"I became a textbook author for a few reasons, the most important being the reason we all write: the possibility of changing people’s minds." @alanmaceachern.bsky.social's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/02...