⏱️ 8 hours to register to this evening's hybrid lecture @carleton.ca by John Moses on his father's experience, while attending the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford, under exceptionally severe wartime&immediate post-war conditions 1942-1947: carleton.ca/history/even...
03.11.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A real pleasure speaking with @theseangraham.bsky.social about the history of military R&D and medical research ethics in post-1945 Canada. More in the book, Frontier Science, but a good intro to the topic for all those interested.
03.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Active History
History Matters
Here is the @activehist.bsky.social link to @theseangraham.bsky.social's "What is Old is News" pod where I'm interviewed about Fort McKay #Métis Nation: A Community History. Purchase or download (#openaccess) the book from @ucalgarypress.bsky.social to learn more about #oilsands #tarsands #ymm
22.05.2025 18:04 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The episode is available @activehist.bsky.social and wherever you get your pods
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05...
22.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Episode with @peterfortna.bsky.social available on the pod feed right now. Post on @activehist.bsky.social will be live tomorrow!
21.05.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Race & Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham This week I talk with Judith Weisenfeld, author of Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race & Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake. We discuss about the origins of the book, how the an…
On this week's What's Old is News, I talk with Judith Weisenfeld about her book Black Religion in the Madhouse (@nyupress.bsky.social) and the role of psychiatry in pathologizing African American religion in the years following the Civil War @activehist.bsky.social
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05...
15.05.2025 15:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Our AI overlords are having none of our popular idioms preaching patience
21.04.2025 23:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1921 Canadian Election – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning point elections. We discuss the po…
New on What's Old is News @activehist.bsky.social I talk with Barbara Messamore (Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election) @ubcpress.bsky.social We talk key issues in the election: tariffs, post-war economy, suffrage, & William Lyon Mackenzie King
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...
10.04.2025 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
1921 Canadian Election – What’s Old is News
By Sean Graham This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning point elections. We discuss the po…
New on What's Old is News @activehist.bsky.social I talk with Barbara Messamore (Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election) @ubcpress.bsky.social We talk key issues in the election: tariffs, post-war economy, suffrage, & William Lyon Mackenzie King
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/04...
10.04.2025 16:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It was great fun to talk to @theseangraham.bsky.social about my book "The Hour of Absinthe"! If you are interested, do listen to "What's Old is News"!
Thanks again for inviting me, Sean!
#DrinkingStudies #Absinthe #Alcohol 🗃️🍸
05.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Serafim ‘Joe’ Fortes – What’s Old is News
Sean Graham talks with Ruby Smith Diaz, author of Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim ‘Joe’ Fortes. They discuss Ruby’s introduction to Serafim’s…
On this week's podcast @activehist.bsky.social , I talk with Ruby Smith Diaz, author of Searching for Serafim, which tells the story of Joe 'Serafim' Fortes, a trailblazing black lifeguard in Vancouver
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/03...
29.03.2025 01:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Writer. Historian of things Canadian.TFC supporter. Still blogs at www.christophermoore.ca
historian of early so-called Canada; lover of rescue dogs
Historian of science and medicine | Canada, Cold War, medical ethics, gender, and more | author of Frontier Science | matthewswiseman.ca
Fier papa, Hockey Fan, historien à 🇨🇦 DHH-National Defence. Adjunct at Carleton University. Researching on Canadian Military and international History and Writing on POWs, Geneva Conventions and Canadian Peacekeeping, 1945-1970s.
Associate Professor @usask.bsky.social
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
The Canadian Studies Network - Le Réseau d'études canadiennes. Reposts not endorsements.
https://csn-rec.ca/
https://csn-rec.ca/fr/
Writer/researcher/public historian for hire, specializing in Toronto/Ontario history that ties into the current zeitgeist. Former Sunday Star quizmaster and Historicist. Crafts award-winning stories. Walks a lot. Has adventures with stuffed porcupines.
Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve
cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
University of Guelph Canadian History Professor and Department Chair, Chocolatier, Inexpert Gardener.
Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Writing and teaching history for a wider public. Black North American border-crossing after the Underground Railroad; Civil War and Reconstruction in the West; Mid-Century Modern art and architecture from Millard Sheets. Californian in NYC. adamarenson.com
Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
Feminist. Historian. Ramsayite. Calgarian.
Historian of early French Canada, the environment, and utopias. Also a keen curler.
Mountain itinerant and photog who teaches and writes Canadian and environmental history at the University of British Columbia. [I chose the photo of Sycamore Gap not knowing what would soon happen...]
Executive Director of The Do More Agriculture Foundation championing mental health in agriculture. Farmer, author, historian, researcher in Saskatchewan. Writing, reading, gardening, baking, kayaking, parenting and watching the sky.
Professor of History at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Treaty 4. Current work: https://www.donicabelisle.com/sugar-research
