We are a bit behind ... our editor-in-chief, @blairstein.bsky.social, crowned the September Editors Pick as "Ordinance in the Orchard: The History of the Meaford Tank Range" by Bram Fookes. niche-canada.org/2025/07/03/t... #envhist #cdnhist #warhistory #militaryhistory

-> @nichecanada.bsky.social is holding their annual fundraiser right now! They do a tremendous amount of work supporting environmental history, not just in Canada, but all over the world. Consider supporting them! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum

After a long week in Delft, I am home again!

"If comfort is informed by identity and worldview, where do viewpoints, imaginings, and feelings about the North split and merge, and by whom?" University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) exhibit announcement: www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...

New comments on "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'" by @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #musichistory #greatlakes #waterhistory

We are 48% of the way to our November fundraising goal? What can you do to help us get to 50% today? We are an independant nonprofit and rely entirely on your support to keep our work going! Right now the average donation is $225, let's see some $25 donations! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

Thanks for the mention @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social! I'm looking fwd to reading the urban environmental history series that @nichecanada.bsky.social is teaming with @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's The Metropole to publish this January. #envhist #urbanhist

This month I feature @placesjournal.bsky.social, @urbanhistorya.bsky.social, @charlotte-leib.bsky.social, @ginastar.bsky.social, @miskoaki.bsky.social, and more! #envhist

This is not "woe is me." It's a matter of fact. And if our disciplines are going to survive, we have to move beyond relying on institutions to save us and take care of each other and the knowledge that we hold and produce.

I spend A LOT of volunteer time supporting the work of people who make 10s of $1000s (sometimes 100,000+) more than me, so yes, I think you can spare $25 annually to support me, precarious contributors, & @nichecanada.bsky.social broadly. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

The most important voices at COP30 are those of Indigenous peoples. “[Among the goals of the Cop30 summit is] a request that countries recognise the demarcation of Indigenous lands as climate policy.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wow. This is fascinating. I wonder what other kinds of curriculum changes will happen in the attempt to circumvent ChatGPT.

Stunning. Archives are everything.

Best readings on historical disasters? Any time period, and though my eventual focus will be the US, glad to hear suggestions about other places, too.

#OTD (Thu, Nov 14) 1912 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Saw number of brown merganser ducks this morning. About four inches of snow on ground this morning. Visited traps. Results nil. Saw a northern shrike [IMG]." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Our NiCHE Conversation with Charlotte Mitchell & PearlAnn Reichwein is now available on YouTube! Mitchell & Reichwein joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss their Ski Like a Girl podcast project and the history of women in skiing in Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ut3... #envhist #cdnhist

Our NiCHE Conversation with Brandon Cordeiro is now available on YouTube! Cordeiro sat down with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about the The Baby Teeth Collection Program & Cold War Nuclear Anxieties. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wJ... #envhist #histmed #nuclear #coldwar

For #UPWeek, we'd like to shout out @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, who support our open-access Canadian History & Environment book series! Peruse the titles here: press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... And series editor, @alanmaceachern.bsky.social, is always looking for more proposals! #envhist

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, is back with her picks for environmental history worth reading (and watching) from October! niche-canada.org/2025/11/14/e... #envhist

Does this mean we have to have the conversation around the ethics of an industrial strategy premised on the supply of war materiel to the world?

Happy pub day to REVISITING HUMAN RIGHTS IN CANADIAN HISTORY! Edited by Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth, this collection challenges the national myths that celebrate Canada’s inclusivity with engaging essays that span topics like immigration, Indigenous sovereignty, and labour movements.

It’s #UPWeek so I want to give a shout-out to the university presses out there doing a fantastic job to bring scholarship to life. They are the antidote we need to the massive commercial academic presses! I’ve published numerous books with university presses - a thread:

Kent Maps Online is an interactive Digital Humanities project exploring the county’s rich heritage, using multi-disciplinary lenses to research and present historic, literary & geographical records. Travel through the site to find answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet. www.kent-maps.online

Today we have "Curating with dis/comfort" by @katieionecraney.bsky.social This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/13/c... #envhist #envhum

#OTD (Sat, Nov 13) 1909 in #AlgonquinPark: "I went to Drummer Lake Creek. Examined wolf baits. Found pineapple fungi. Returned & went to Sim’s Pit, then to Canoe Lake, then to Rainbow Lake ponds, then down Potter Creek. Saw a fine woodcock on beaver dam." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Call for Proposals – 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference From Harbour to Horizon: Recharting Atlantic Canada Studies Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island from June 3rd-5th Proposal Deadline: December 19, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/11/12/c... #envhist #cdnhist #cdnstudies

Such a wonderful historical/environment site.

In today’s post, Avery Monette (@averymonette.bsky.social) discusses the Nazi occupation of Winnipeg.

More reading from John Sandlos and @arnkeeling.bsky.social - "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" - niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y... #envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist

Many humans see us as apart from nature. This study points out we are part of the natural world for other organisms. Plus, bearded vultures are cool - eating mostly bones. Flora's 12 min conversation w/ Dr. Ana Belen Marín-Arroyo - Universidad de Cantabria www.sciencefriday.com/segments/bea...

"Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group" by Stephanie Pyne, Caléa Turner, @andrewwiebe.bsky.social, & Andrew Woolford is latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series. niche-canada.org/2025/11/11/m... #envhist #cdnhist

If you work in environmental history or humanities, please consider donating to NiCHE this month. They do so, so much to support and expand these fields, and I know they would really appreciate your support -- in any amount, or through spreading news of their campaign! #envhum #envhist

In this week's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series on @nichecanada.bsky.social, we learn about how the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is using a variety of innovative and collaborative map-based approaches to document, archive, and present Survivor experiences.

Many thanks to @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social and @saraspike.bsky.social for all the support and dialogue around this!

A friendly reminder that we are in peak fundraising season for @nichecanada.bsky.social! Anything that you could spare would be put to excellent use for this fantastic network. Don’t be shy, click on the link! fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #CdnHist #histSTM

Interesting analysis of old satellite data bsky.app/profile/wisc...

Fascinating read about Arctic art history and the panoramic paintings popular in empires and settler societies trying to comprehend newly acquired or coveted territory, and the long fascination with the Arctic, like the Arctic expedition in Frankenstein, published a year before this painting.

"Technological promise … enables the oil and gas industry to have its cake and eat it, too." - Mack Penner niche-canada.org/2025/01/31/c...

Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks! The conversation is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4... #envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty

Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t... #envhist #arctic #envhum

Interesting interview-Part 1-by award winning retired #TheBroadcastCBC journalist Jim Winter, founding president CSA w/ @mike49.bsky.social @coastalpeoplerpg.bsky.social. Thanks Mike for sharing your experiences. Part 2 soon! @fishingforsuccess.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social @govnl.bsky.social

For more than 20 years, we have worked to build & maintain a network – a community – of scholars & people interested in scholarly work related to #envhist & #envhum Is what we do worth a $25 annual donation? We think so. niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/l... #cdnhist

Historian Gregory Klages is in the process of publishing the diaries of @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social, who spent 3 decades as a Park Ranger in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. Klages recently met with @peterastevens.bsky.social to discuss the project. niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t... #envhist #cdnhist

What should we do with our Conference and Workshop archive? Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, and editor, @maryeb.bsky.social plan to tackle it next. 🔹 We need your help, though! Send us your ideas and/or your money. 🔹 niche-canada.org/resources/ 🔹 #envhist #cdnhist #envhum

Listen to "The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 Years Later" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gRk... Read "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'" by @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f... #envhist #greatlakes #waterhistory

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Read an excerpt from Mountain Voices from Alison Criscitiello here: niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p... We will be publishing excerpts on the 1st of each month through next October in partnership with the Alpine Club of Canada and @ucalgarypress.bsky.social! #envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains

Access ALL of our OPEN-ACCESS @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History and Environment titles here: press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #books

#OTD (Wed, Nov 10) 1909 at #CacheLake, #AlgonquinPark: "During forenoon, Mr. Bartlett got telegram to let prisoner go; he leaving on 11 a.m. train for Pembroke. I walked down to Canoe Lake." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social