Jeff McNairn

As do the pressures of grad student funding.

Tax history follows you everywhere, even to Dublin Castle.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

Rebecca L. Spang - Blog This page features texts I haven't published elsewhere. Please feel free to cite as "Rebecca L. Spang, 'Title of post,' date, rebeccalspang.org."

WaPo published a puff piece about "new state legal tender laws." As @grahamhubbs.bsky.social noted, it took them 500 words before they introduced a skeptical view. I've written about it, but wasn't sure how to get it published--so it's on my website for now. Please read!
www.rebeccalspang.org/blog

If you do one new thing in London this summer, make it the V&A East Storehouse.

We nested in Finland rather than Estonia.

Flying out tomorrow morning, unfortunately. Did the obligatory ferry to Tallinn but spent as much time in edgier neighbourhoods as we did in the old town.

There’s sightseeing and then there is just doing nothing.

It’s Stationery Store Day and we are open until 6.

This, written for Monocle back in 2019, is posted annually to celebrate. ✏️📓📐📎✂️🖍️

First Estonian gin.

Irish novel overlooking Finish Parliament.

Maybe we should be asking if we are writing letters that are worth reading.

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts. Volume 53, Issue 3 of The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

The latest issue of @jich.bsky.social (53/3) has just been published!

It is a special issue on colonial and post colonial petitions, edited by Miranda Johnson and @henryjmiller.bsky.social.

Also featuring book reviews and commentaries.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/c...

YouTube video by History Talks: Queen's University Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia | Dr. Mitra Sharafi

Today's recording rewind brings you "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia," originally presented by Dr. Mitra Sharafi on February 27, 2025.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkc...

I'm not sure this is really satire - seems more like reporting to me, but yes, spot on.

Borealia and the Centre of Canadian History Jerry Bannister Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be abl…

"Borealia and the Centre of Canadian History," by Jerry Bannister: earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/11/b...
#CdnHist

One of the required readings for my history of schooling course at Queen's University.

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year!

HIST 216
U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

You can find more details about this course and many others on our website! www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

The most learned, thought-provoking, serious historical scholarship I’ve read in some time.

Exceptional Policing: American perspectives on the Cypress Hills Massacre Max Hamon Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to a…

"Exceptional Policing: American perspectives on the Cypress Hills Massacre," by @maxhamon.bsky.social at @earlycanada.bsky.social earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/09/e...

The thing to take from this chart is this: by 2027, even after the massive, epoch-defining Trump cuts to higher education and some very bad news coming out of certain states are factored in, the US will still have seen more growth in public higher education spending than Canada in the post-2011 era.

Historical scholarship, pluralism, and the possibility of sharing wealth and power E.A. Heaman Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to…

"Historical scholarship, pluralism, and the possibility of sharing wealth and power," by E.A. Heaman, part of @earlycanada.bsky.social's final series--speaking to our present political moment. earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/07/h...

This editorial applies to the trend in Ontario as much as to the more visible axe swinging in Indiana.

A Decade of Conversation It has now been a decade since Borealia was launched, in 2015, with the intention of amplifying scholarship on northern North America before the twentieth century. We hoped it would be a forum wher…

We're grateful for a decade of conversation about early Canadian history at @earlycanada.bsky.social, and now we have decided to wrap up Borealia as an active project (after this week's 3-part finale, M, W, F). A few closing thoughts here: earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/06/a...

🇺🇸 American Independence Day, 1934 - Celebrated in Toronto 🇨🇦

On July 4th, 1934, Toronto marked U.S. Independence Day with an extraordinary act of goodwill: the original Mace of Upper Canada, taken during the Battle of York in 1813, was formally returned by the United States.

#Canada #jeremyhopkin

This community park, city recreation centre, and the fabulous karaage sandwiches from the shipping container have renewed my faith in humanity. Parkdale at its very best.