‘Artificially drawn line’: 1860 engineers cabin a reminder of great effort to mark Canada-U.S. border Like the decision-makers who agreed on the 49th parallel, experts today believe the border functions best when the two nations co-operate

Ben Hoy contributes interview to this story on the history of the Canada-US border.
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Alumni of Influence recipients making an impact on communities The awards celebrate outstanding alumni of the USask College of Arts and Science

Announcing the 2025 #USaskArtSci Alumni of Influence!
Five outstanding USask graduates who inspire others. artsandscience.usask.ca/news/article...

USask team wins international teaching award for Canadian history game Homesteaders teaches the history of prairie settlement through tabletop gaming

Congratulations to colleagues Ben Hoy, Jim Clifford, Paula MacDowell, Judy Jaunzems Fernuk and Jessy Lee Saas on winning a prestigious D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning for the game Homesteaders!
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Congrats to our Executive member, @stundenbower.bsky.social, on be shortlisted for the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History prize!

And extra congrats to the other nominees as well!

#cdnhist #envhist #aghist

Shortlist: Wallace K. Ferguson Prize | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize. (In alphabetical order). Jacob Blanc, The Prestes Column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil. D...

The CHA is proud to announce the books that are shortlisted for this year’s Wallace K. Ferguson prize! #cdnhist #prize

Five of our department's PhD Candidates presented their research at their 990 Colloquium today. Congratulations to Justin Fisher, Kiera Mitchell, Dasha Guliak, Derek Cameron and Patrick Lee on a job well done. Five very interesting research projects and great questions from the audience!

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Neufeld on promotion to full professor. This is very well deserved. Matthew was recognized at the College's RSAW Celebration.

USask Arts and Science faculty recognized for research, scholarly, artistic impact on communities Four Arts and Science faculty members presented with college awards for outstanding RSAW contributions

Congratulations to Erika Dyck, Jim Clifford and Nazeem Muhajarine on receiving an RSAW Publicly Engaged Scholar Team Award for their work on The Remember/Rebuild Saskatchewan project and Cheryl Troupe on receiving the College's RSAW New Scholar Award.

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Putting Down Roots Looking through the lens of women's work, Putting Down Roots reframes Métis road allowance communities as sites of profound resistance and resilience, restoring Métis life in places, times, and schola...

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr. Cheryl Troupe on the publication of Putting Down Roots.

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Promotional graphic for Red Dress Day on May 5, 2025, supporting missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people across Canada. Features a background image of a historic building with red dresses displayed on stands in the foreground. Includes text and a QR code.

Red Dress Day is May 5: All members of the #USask community are invited to gather in front of Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre on Monday, May 5 from 11am - 1pm to show their support for ending violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

Congratulations to two of Dr. Ben Hoy’s undergraduate students, Andrew Kelly and Marissa Moberg, who attended the 2025 Crossing Borders Conference at Niagara University on March 29. Andrew was also awarded the Best Paper prize! This is a huge accomplishment for both students.

How Canada Wins: Breaking the stigma of sexual health Candice Klein, with Saskatoon Sexual Health, speaks about services they offer and the advocacy and education they do.

Read about History Department alum Dr. Candice Klein as she talks about her work with Saskatoon Sexual Health in a recent news article.

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Join us for a panel discussion on "Psychedelic Humanities or Humanistic Psychedelics? What the Humanities Can (and Can't) Contribute to the Psychedelic Landscape."
Tuesday, April 1 from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM at Louis' Loft

Happening Thursday March 20 at 4pm. The USask Museum of Antiquities will be hosting the first of its 50th anniversary celebration events in March, starting with a special guest lecture by Dr. Nathan. T. Elkins, Deputy Director of the American Numismatic Society, on the Colosseum on Roman coins.

I'm taking part in a round table, organized by a student group called Inspired 2 Uplift, focused on learning disabilities and other invisible disabilities on campus. The location changed to 211, Arts Building. Tonight at 5pm. Free pizza! @usaskartsci.bsky.social @usask.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Neufeld (USask) and Sabine Jesner (Museum of Military History, Vienna) on the recent publication of their edited collection, Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660-1830.

This is an open access title and available at
www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com

Are you a History Major? Considering a Major History? Join Prof. Mark Meyers, in collaboration with the College’s Undergraduate Student Office for a group advising session. Mon, Mar 31 from 12:30-1:30pm in ARTS 208.

Please register for the session here: www.eventbrite.com/e/major-in-m...

Trump needs a history lesson. Maybe we all do By Robert Englebert The tariff war has begun. Since coming into office only weeks ago, Donald Trump’s on-and-off again threat of taking a sledgehammer to free trade has kept Canadians on edge. &nbs…

Check out this recent Active History post by our colleague, Dr. Robert Englebert activehistory.ca/blog/2025/03...

Deadline to apply: Today at 11:59PM! Open to anyone with 30 cu course work or 3 cu History. The application is easy to complete; reference letters can come in after the deadline. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students!
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Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Cheryl Troupe, who is receiving an Order of Gabriel Dumont Gold Medal.

This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with @activehist.bsky.social on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here: niche-canada.org/tag/historia...

#envhist #climhist #climatechange

Join Rural History Roundtable on Weds March 12 (330-5pm EST) as Kimberley Moore and @janisthiessen.bsky.social from University of Winnipeg present "Mmm...Manitoba: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat"

Register for this free Zoom talk here:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/mmm-manito...

All are welcome! #cdnhist

Join our Department on March 26 for Dr. Jim Clifford's 7 Nights of History talk titled, "July 16, 1945: The Day the Anthropocene Didn't Begin". March 26, 2025 Starts at 6:30pm and Better Brothers Brewing.

Introducing the “Historicizing Adaptation” Blog Series Learn about “Historicizing Adaptation,” a blog series launching today that will publish on Thursdays for the next few months. This series will feature environmental historians and scholars in allied f...

Our Historicizing Adaptation series begins today with an introduction by @stundenbower.bsky.social!

This series will feature environmental historians and scholars in allied fields reflecting on adaptation in historical perspective.

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#envhist #adaptation

Environmental Racism and the Climate Emergency: An Interview with Ingrid Waldron Edward Dunsworth speaks with Ingrid Waldron, author of There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities.

#BlackHistoryMonth Reading

"Environmental Racism and the Climate Emergency: An Interview with Ingrid Waldron"

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#envhist #cdnhist

Her photos captured Halifax's queer and women's rights movements. Now they're being preserved | CBC News After Anita Martinez died on Feb. 4, members of the 2SLGBT+ and women's rights communities in Halifax joined in to help preserve tens of thousands of photos depicting those movements from the late 198...

A significant photographic archive of 80s Halifax queer and women’s rights movement

The Place Where You Live: China and India Places change over time, because we change, and the world around us changes.

So pleased that Mary Baxter @nichecanada.bsky.social chose the third post in @lootina.bsky.social and my series, "The Place Where You Live," as their Editor's Pick for February! Check out these wonderful pieces on places in China and India. #envhist #envhum niche-canada.org/2024/12/06/t...

Interested in Study Abroad courses? We are offering History 272: Human Rights in History, taught by Dr. Mark Meyers in May 2025.

Class is May 5-30 (MTWThF 9:30am-12:00pm), with mandatory travel to Winnipeg May 5-9. Travel will be subsidized.

Applications due March 10. See poster for details.

Happening tomorrow! Dr. Valerie Korinek will be giving the next 7 Nights of History talk titled: "June 28, 1969: The Stonewall Riots: The Spark That Lit Gay, Lesbian and Trans Rights." Join us February 26 at Better Brother's Brewing. 6:30 pm. Open to the public.