I can’t handle the news so let’s revive a good old Twitter meme contest Ruin a book or band name with one letter Lady Chatterly’s Liver

Lutheran Church, Opeongo Trail, Ontario Charles Comfort 1977

#JamesBarryDiary 13/3/1876 Another soft day - just like the middle of April, melting away the snow and ice very fast. I was busy drying and grinding. Kiln is now clear. Donald Gunn was here this forenight and we chatted a lot. I have some of the cold in my throat still and will till warm weather.

Incoming Cedar Waxwing! The older the Cedar Waxwing, the more red waxy tips a bird has, with some having more than 9. 6-9 is common in older birds.

The corners that Ai wants us to cut are what make scholarship good!!

And that’s a wrap on our blog series on artificial intelligence! Thanks to @amywb.bsky.social @chriscampbell1.bsky.social @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social @megsmith.bsky.social @ktl10.bsky.social and Anushmita Mohanty for their wonderful contributions! Visit nacbs.org/broadsides to read the full series!

We are teaming up with @activehist.bsky.social to highlight the environmental dimensions of the the Indian Act at 150. You have until March 30th to get your proposals in to @drheathergreen.bsky.social! niche-canada.org/2026/03/11/i... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

A male Eastern Blue bird sings from the top of an Alder tree.

Whenever my archival research moves back a decade or forward a decade (c1790s-1830s), the shift in style of language, handwriting, or materiality of documents or documentation seems pronounced. Do other scholars notice this too? Ten years but different worlds, it seems 🗃️

Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer... #medievalsky

A Red-headed Woodpecker perched on a fallen log along the nature trail. This particular Woodpecker chases away Red-bellied Woodpeckers and the much larger Pileated Woodpeckers from the bird's wintering territory. Red-headed Woodpeckers cache food, so this bird was likely protecting his/her food.

Saint Andrews United Baptist Church, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, 1865. #MarchArch

One of the male Red-winged Blackbirds in my backyard flying over the marsh. The rusty fringe to his feathers (seen here mostly on the back) will soon drop off as he changes from his non-breeding plumage into his breeding plumage.

A male Eastern Bluebird heading out to follow a female Bluebird.

Hound in Field Alex Colville 1958

Calgary Central Library, Snøhetta and DIALOG, 2013-18. #StaircaseSaturday #SaturdayStairs

Some 19th-century Mi'gmaw embroidery, done on birchbark with moosehair. It depicts strawberries, and women dressed in their fancy ceremonial dress gathering strawberries (the fruit is medicine associated with women, renewal, and the heart).

I heard a Pileated Woodpecker hammering away but wasn't able to locate him at first. I spotted him when he leaned to the side; he was directly on the other side of the tree.

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

March Birch Alexandrya Eaton 2018

On the blog ... Another open letter about NS's cuts to its museum program, this one by John Reid (Prof. Emeritus SMU) and M. Brook Taylor (Prof. Emeritus MSVU): acadiensis.wordpress...

A male Eastern Bluebird scanning the leaf litter from his perch before diving down to hunt insects.

A male Red-winged Blackbird patrolling the marsh.

Hiver Goodridge Roberts 1960

Light at dawn.

My recipe for my first #StainedGlassSunday contribution to BlueSky: Begin with stained glass. Add sunlight, Lincoln Cathedral, and stir. Blend the material with the immaterial.

New collection coming very soon—Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920. Comprising over 55,000 document images, it charts the evolution of witchcraft and magic in England over five centuries. Learn more at britishonlinearchives.com/collections/....

Maple Syrup Time Maud Lewis c. 1960

A male Pileated Woodpecker launches from one tree to head to another.

The visible song of a male Red-winged Blackbird in the morning light.

Arts, culture and local publishing in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts www.halifaxexaminer.ca/arts-and-cul...

The @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social version of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean" is out today! It includes an audiobook, which I recorded last December at a sound studio here in Washington, DC. Now you can read or listen to the book, even if you live outside of the US and Canada. #History 1/2

A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) hopping along the nature trail. They are one most common birds in North America, and a lovely winter visitor here in southeast Michigan.

It is #BlackHistoryMonth. Isaac Willoughby (fl. 1760–1834) was an enslaved Black man who bought his freedom in about 1796. His petitions to the Nova Scotia government offer a glimpse of life as a freed Black person in the colonial Maritimes. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/willo... #BHM

It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!! And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

Two - count 'em - two jobs at UPEI - one in History (specifically aimed at Atlantic Canada) and one in English (which could be Atlantic Canadian!). www.upei.ca/hr/competiti... www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

What if the American Revolution was also a supply‑chain crisis? This post rethinks independence through the lens of logistics, scarcity, and survival—using Nova Scotia (1783–1794) as a revealing case study. 👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...

«The Black men (incl. Harry Grant, Richard Houldin &Henry McEvoy), part of 104th NB Regiment of Foot, left Fredericton Feb. 16, 1813, followed banks of Saint John, Madawaska &St. Lawrence rivers &reached Kingston in April, bolstering Canadian defences against impending US invasion in War of 1812.»

In this closely drawn biography of Acadian New Brunswick premier Louis J. Robichaud, Donald Savoie provides a portrait of a man uniquely able to meet the need for difficult and enduring political and societal change. buff.ly/yRVPAlK

Assistant Professor – Canadian History. Deadline: March 19, 2026. #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

Explore African Canadian history with award-winning historian @nhenrydixon.bsky.social! Access open resources on Black Canadian histories and the African diaspora. Learn more at Teaching African Canadian History: tach.natashahenrydixon.ca . . . #BHM2026 #ProjectLaunch #DigitalHumanities

‘We are the ones left to tell’: Preserving the legacy of Black New Brunswick families By Sophie M. Lavoie nbmediacoop.org/2026/02/23/w...

My colleague John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith is a riveting portrait of America's most successful religious entrepreneur—and he's paired it with thirty detailed podcast episodes. lincolnmullen.com/blog/john-tu...

Moon Bird Jackson Beardy ~ Anishinaabe 1980

One of the things I love about photography is how it reveals details I may never have noticed otherwise. This photo shows the white tips of a Pileated Woodpecker wing, which can be difficult to see when the bird is in flight and viewed with the naked eye.

I meant to include the TOC! Please see below.

#JamesBarryDiary 15/2/1876 Snowing this morning from the east and continued so all day nearly. The latter part of the afternoon was more like rain than snow - round snow. I had intended to go to Pictou today and stay all night to hear a concert in Mason hall, but the storm prevented me.

Available open access, Gareth Knapman's 'Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811-1815', Jnl of Imp & Commonwealth Hist. #Skystorians