🚨 New on QTP 🚨 Like 15,000 compatriots, Rémi Tremblay took part in the U.S. Civil War and lived a transnational life. But, in his case, horrific wartime experiences became a novel. "Un Revenant" helped French Canadians make the story of the Civil War their own. querythepast.com/tremblay-un-...

If you didn't have plans for the weekend, well, now you do. On Saturday, the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society's annual conference will focus on the semiquincentennial and the migrations that ensued. Come for the presentations—and stay for Vermont PoutineFest on Sunday.

As someone who just re-registered his car... no complaints about not getting raptured.

From 1820. Respectfully, Woodstock Observer, you can't just slide that in without providing details.

Presidents ranked by badassness of name: 1. James K. Polk 2. Grover Cleveland 3. Barack Obama 4. Ronald Reagan 5. Franklin Pierce ... 43. John Quincy Adams 44. John Adams 45. Dwight Eisenhower

"While news of the tragedy reverberated in Quebec papers . . . the local Franco-American publication, L’Etoile, launched a subscription. Relief funds amounting to more than $160 were distributed among 19 individuals. In light of their last names, they may all have been Canadian immigrants."

I wonder what percentage of this is drinking and smoking.

Born on this day in 1903: Roy Acuff, the king of country music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWI...

Is there really a violent “radical left” in North America? The failure of most media to challenge this premise is a real problem. The core values of most of the left (even the radicals) hue towards equity & non-violence. The usual cause of this type of violence is mental health & easy access to guns

🚨 New! 🚨 "[T]he storage facilities of the U.S. Cartridge Company, packed with dynamite and other explosives, erupted in a mighty, devastating blast. Shock waves rocked towns near and far." #CanadaUS #francophonie #immigration #Lowell #NewEngland querythepast.com/lowell-explo...

We need a social media platform that is just history - new publications, fun facts from our research, OTD posts, threads, etc. In other words, I need an oasis where, for a solid 20 minutes a day, I don't need to see or think about the devastation caused by the second Orange-utan administration.

Mine certainly does.

Be sure to ask for my impression of President John Edwards next time we cross paths. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOES...

Wordle 1,535 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 My "start word" usually pays off in some way... but not in *this* way.

You wouldn't hire an accountant to rebuild your car. Different challenges call for different types of expertise. Often, we seem to set that notion aside when it comes to the humanities. Anyone can do history, right? Well, anyone can do *bad* history. 🚨 New on QTP: 🚨 querythepast.com/bad-history/

The first country that a fascist dictator conquers is his own country. — Pete Seeger Fascism comes along when the rich people get the generals to help them stay in control. — Woody Guthrie

You wouldn't hire an accountant to rebuild your car. Different challenges call for different types of expertise. Often, we seem to set that notion aside when it comes to the humanities. Anyone can do history, right? Well, anyone can do *bad* history. 🚨 New on QTP: 🚨 querythepast.com/bad-history/

I'm tired of having to re-share this. But, ONCE AGAIN, this has never been more relevant. ✊✊✊ activehistory.ca/blog/2018/04...

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

Well, well, well.

While chattel slavery is emphatically not my area of historical expertise, I do feel the Smithsonian is probably on solid ground if they're presenting it as "bad."

🚨 New on Query the Past 🚨 Remember the political options put to Franco-Americans in the 1930s? No? Well, QTP has you covered. #CanadaUS #francophonie #labor #NewEngland #nhpoli querythepast.com/franco-ameri...

🚨 New on Query the Past 🚨 Remember the political options put to Franco-Americans in the 1930s? No? Well, QTP has you covered. #CanadaUS #francophonie #labor #NewEngland #nhpoli querythepast.com/franco-ameri...

Best book opening I've seen in quite a while.

Comrade buffalo 🐃

A big anniversary: August 9 is Webster-Ashburton Day. In Canada, the Rebellions of 1837 were followed by cross-border raids that threatened to embroil the United States and Great Britain in a full-scale war, roughly the third in as many generations. 1/4

New on QTP: The activities of St. Anne societies in the interwar period "Within the Ladies of St. Anne, Franco-Americans socialized with women of other ethnic backgrounds, a chink in the dam of cultural isolation that would crumble in the decades to follow." querythepast.com/ladies-of-st...

The Vindicator, Montreal, Aug. 5, 1836: "During the sixteen years that we have furnished Agricultural Reports for the Que. Gazette, we never sat down to the task with such unfavorable forebodings as at present . . . The late sown potatoes did not come up, or only here and there a stalk . . . (1/5)

There’s never money for health care but always money for more camps

The fight for justice and equity—with pen and sword—is never ended so long as vice and folly, greed and ignorance, pride and prejudice, influence or possess human minds and hearts. — Fr. Edward Surtz

New on QTP: The activities of St. Anne societies in the interwar period "Within the Ladies of St. Anne, Franco-Americans socialized with women of other ethnic backgrounds, a chink in the dam of cultural isolation that would crumble in the decades to follow." querythepast.com/ladies-of-st...

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The president is the Britney-dancing-with-knives of U.S. politics.

Today's been a total 5.

One of my all-time faves (this article possibly tied with the one about Greeks and the instant regret of inventing theatre).

Fascism: "It's not political at all..." That last line. It hits. As does the rest of Hugh MacLennan's "The Watch That Ends the Night." Fortuitously a timely read.

One hundred years ago: For the murder of Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes, a rhesus macaque named Banjo becomes the first monkey in U.S. history to be sentenced to life in prison. A second charge would later be added for possession and sale of a controlled substance.

One hundred years ago: For the murder of Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes, a rhesus macaque named Banjo becomes the first monkey in U.S. history to be sentenced to life in prison. A second charge would later be added for possession and sale of a controlled substance.

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Happy Saturday!

#Montreal selon Hugh MacLennan. 🤔 #Quebec #Canada

Do you have Michauds in your tree? You may be a descendant of Etienne Michaud, who fathered children over six decades and has descendants from Kamouraska to the Bay State. With thanks to @wikitree.bsky.social for the documentary leads. @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social querythepast.com/etienne-mich...

Delicious.

The Onion.

It was a year ago that my article on Franco-Americans' racial thinking appeared in the J. of History—timely, considering the CHR special issue that appeared at the same time. But there is still a lot of work to do. My piece on the @iehs.bsky.social blog offers a glimpse. iehs.org/franco-ameri...

🚨 New on QTP 🚨 "It’s a lot—and it’s not, as far as public expressions are concerned, how we would picture a declining or languishing culture. We may not need to envy the cultural landscape that existed three or four decades ago." #FrancoAmericans querythepast.com/cultural-eco...

Well, for the first time since 2018, I have three articles undergoing peer review at the same time. I do this not because it is easy, but because insomniacs will need relief in 2026. Also I will regret this *immensely* when referee reports start coming in. #HistoriansBeHistoryin'

« Ces Canadiens français qui ont façonné les États-Unis » : Pour la Fête de l'Indépendance, La Presse a souligné le rôle influent qu'ont joué plusieurs Canadiennes et Canadiens au sud de la frontière. Explorateur, bâtisseur, star de la scène, athlète... tous y sont. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...

Anyone with access to Project Muse (and the latest issue of the Journal of History) willing to help a historian out? I work for a poor institution. Hoping to get Tucker's article.

🚨 New on QTP 🚨 "It’s a lot—and it’s not, as far as public expressions are concerned, how we would picture a declining or languishing culture. We may not need to envy the cultural landscape that existed three or four decades ago." #FrancoAmericans querythepast.com/cultural-eco...