Keith Grant

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 and culture in Nova Scotia left reeling from 'unprecedented' cuts - Halifax Examiner "It's going to be absolutely devastating."

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

Black Atlantic Worlds — Harvard University Press Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meaning...

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!).

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American Independence as a Supply Chain Crisis: The Case of Nova Scotia 1783-94 This post is a part of the 2025 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions. By …

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.

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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
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#BHM2026 #ProjectLaunch #DigitalHumanities

‘We are the ones left to tell’: Preserving the legacy of Black New Brunswick families It was standing-room-only crowd at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery on Feb. 19 for a talk about a new art project

‘We are the ones left to tell’: Preserving the legacy of Black New Brunswick families

By Sophie M. Lavoie
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John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith | Lincoln Mullen My friend and colleague John Turner published his biography, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, this past summer with Yale University Press. (Why the delayed blog post? Because I…

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...

@alanmaceachern.bsky.social

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.

Province's pre-budget survey gives N.B. heritage sites the jitters | CBC News Museums and historic sites in New Brunswick are asking the province to conduct more meaningful consultation with the heritage sector before this year’s budget.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

#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.

Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815 This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sover...

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

A Tufted Titmouse in a beech tree waiting for a peanut to be offered.

Snow Laden Spruce
A.J. Casson
n.d.

rain through the night
the birds dream
of spring
I awake
to song

It is #BlackHistoryMonth. Statia, an enslaved Black woman, gave a deposition that described her life up to 1805 – a document that captures her difficult circumstances in Maritime Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/stati... #BHM