Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.

Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history? Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!

There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.

"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...

An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."

I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h... #envhum

Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.

Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...

Call for Proposals – Cross-Pollinations 2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC) 16-20 June, University of Alberta Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/08/27/c... #envhum

Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong

Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.

Exciting event planned for next June!

"In 1919, more than 6,500 Drumheller coal miners went on strike under the banner of the One Big Union to fight for better working and living conditions, and higher wages." - @daveberta.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2021/02/05/t... #labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist

Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025) niche-canada.org/2025/08/08/m... #envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist

As of today, 3% of Manitoba’s land mass has burned this fire season. The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres. That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.

Trying to compile a playlist of songs relating to post-1885 #CdnHist but finding it hard to find actual good ones. Any suggestions? It’s gotta be more than the Hip, right? Here’s what I have so far open.spotify.com/playlist/2dU...

If you want a space to write about changes to structures supporting climate change action in the US, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #uspoli

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduces our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series. niche-canada.org/2025/07/25/f... #envhist #envhum #climatecrisis

Call for Submissions – Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools Edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social Submission Deadline: August 25, 2025 Series Publication: Fall 2025 Please spread the word! niche-canada.org/2025/07/22/c... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenous

We are providing space for writing about these kind of impacts to public lands in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series. Rolling submission deadline. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #uspoli #envhist #publiclands

Today we have "Visiting Julienne The’dahcha: A Reflection on Memory, Land, and Dinjii Zhuh Knowledge" by Crystal Gail Fraser This is the seventh post in a series on the fiftieth anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, edited by Mark Stoller. niche-canada.org/2025/07/08/v... #envhist

If you are one of these PostDocs and you want to write about your experience, we're providing space at @nichecanada.bsky.social for in our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #science #noaa

Our series marking the 50th anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry continues this week with "What I Teach about When I Teach about the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry" by Jane Griffith niche-canada.org/2025/07/01/w... #envhist #cdnhist #teaching #indigenoushistory

If you want a space to write about this order to wipe erase history at the NPS, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #parkhistory #NPS

New showcase revisiting some of our posts for Pride Month! Check out our first spotlight and the collection here: linktr.ee/activehistory

Okay, so who is writing or is going to write the labour and environmental history of potash in Saskatchewan? (Also, can it be done within the next two weeks, please.)

Huge congratulations to the historian who taught the first Canadian history class I ever took, who supervised my undergraduate Honors thesis, who was a member of my doctoral committee, and who continues to shape our understanding of the prairies in so many important ways.

Wonderful interview with Two-Spirit Archives co-founder Albert McLeod about the history of the term Two-Spirit and the new stamp honouring its acceptance at the 3rd North American Native Gay & Lesbian Gathering. Here's the itinerary of the event. digitalcollections.uwinnipeg.ca/digital/coll...

NEW NiCHE Series Call for Submissions!! Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors Submission Deadline – 20 June 2025 Series Editor: @theliftline.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/06/05/c... #envhist #envhum #envstudies #games

Huge congratulations to Crystal and Jill, both amazing colleagues.

Remember! If you are at @cndhistassoc.bsky.social and want to learn more about NiCHE or have ideas to bring to the table involving #envhist in #cdnhist, please join us on Wednesday – 4 June 2025 – 12-12:45pm EDT – (WFL-531) niche-canada.org/2025/05/28/n...

Thinking about the communities in central and northern Manitoba now being evacuated, and also about how the experience of evacuation is often harmful in itself, particularly for people from Indigenous communities.

Come connect with other scholars with interests in environmental history!

This article is part of the Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series I'm editing with @stundenbower.bsky.social. We're accepting submissions on a rolling basis: niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... New post out on Friday!

The final post in the Historicizing Adaptation series with @nichecanada.bsky.social -- check it out! Authored by @mauritsertsen.bsky.social

Check out this discussion of activism and adaptation by Iñupiat peoples in the North Slope Borough. It illustrates "the importance of including Indigenous sources of knowledge in policy processes." Another post in the Historicizing Adaptation series with @nichecanada.bsky.social

ONE WEEK left to submit your proposals to our Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories, edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social What's that one "thing" you haven't been able to fit into broader research? niche-canada.org/2025/04/16/c... #envhist #envhum

Today we are proud to share Resources for Environmental Historians and Initiatives Supporting Environmental History – Spring 2025, a list compiled by @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social that aims to help historians navigate this political moment. niche-canada.org/2025/04/26/r... #envhist #envhum #history

Today on our site we have "Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas & Alaska – even if they don’t realize it" by Christine Keiner Part of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History & the Current United States Federal Administration series. niche-canada.org/2025/04/25/c...

Historicizing Adaptation in Winnipeg! Another post in the blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social

Today we have "What Comes Next? The View from the Eighteenth Century" by @clairecampbell.bsky.social This post is part of our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series. niche-canada.org/2025/04/23/w... #envhist #cdnhist #uspoli

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

Check out @peterfortna.bsky.social on Indigenous knowledges and adapting to newly-dangerous environments along the Athabasca River, another post in the Historicizing Adaptation blog series with @nichecanada.bsky.social

Please consider submitting a chapter abstract for our edited collection, Queering the Tensions of Empire. Abstracts due: 31 May 2025. Deets here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Teaching-focused, career-stream appointment available in Indigenous and Canadian History at U of Alberta! Please feel free to contact me for more information. Don't delay; closes 25 April.

Colleagues! @stundenbower.bsky.social & I are editing a @nichecanada.bsky.social aimed to provide space for environmental historians & adjacent scholars to discuss the impacts of the current political moment. Rolling deadline. Anonymous posts considered niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist

New NiCHE Series! Call for Submissions – Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration Proposals accepted on an ongoing basis. Editors: @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and @stundenbower.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist #envhum