Keith Grant
@keithsgrant.bsky.social
PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | CoEditor http://earlycanadianhistory.ca
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A sweet Tufted Titmouse watching the nature trail.
February 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
A sweet Tufted Titmouse watching the nature trail.
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Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
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The AI Takeover Is Not Inevitable: Now Is the Time to Resist
"Studying history, we know that nothing is inevitable."
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February 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
This looks helpful - thanks to the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social for hosting!
The CHA invites you to a webinar exploring tools and tips for using generative artificial intelligence in the historical profession. All are welcome! #cdnhist
CHA Webinar: Generative AI and the Practice of History | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada
The Canadian Historical Association’s Generative AI Subcommittee invites you to a webinar exploring tools and tips for using generative artificial intelligence in the historical profession. All are we...
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February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
This looks helpful - thanks to the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social for hosting!
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job
Assistant Professor in Politics
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...
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Assistant Professor in Politics
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:33 PM
job
Assistant Professor in Politics
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@cpsa-acsp.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Politics
University of New Brunswick, Saint John
...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@cpsa-acsp.bsky.social
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I'm a huge fan of Claudio Saunt's project on land claims and treaties and cessions that is so revelatory in its scope-- pic 1 is 1776, pic 2 is 1876. Blue is Indian homelands, gray is unceded territory, red is reservations. usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
February 3, 2026 at 7:32 PM
I'm a huge fan of Claudio Saunt's project on land claims and treaties and cessions that is so revelatory in its scope-- pic 1 is 1776, pic 2 is 1876. Blue is Indian homelands, gray is unceded territory, red is reservations. usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappv...
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"Hey everyone the peanut lady is here!" -Tufted Titmouse
February 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
"Hey everyone the peanut lady is here!" -Tufted Titmouse
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Out today! Historian @gogogomalley.bsky.social has written a fantastic new book: THE ESCAPES OF DAVID GEORGE. Check it out! 👇📚#slaveryarchive
February 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Out today! Historian @gogogomalley.bsky.social has written a fantastic new book: THE ESCAPES OF DAVID GEORGE. Check it out! 👇📚#slaveryarchive
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This is a fun read. Have to admit I loved the Swamp Fox (but I wasn't allowed to watch much TV except Disney back in the '70s!). (Muppet show + Disney or the Nature of Things was the highlight of my week).
Dive into “Fact versus Fabrication: Popular Depictions of Francis Marion and the Historical Record” to explore how art, storytelling, and national memory reshaped the Swamp Fox into an American hero, sometimes at the expense of accuracy.
Read it here 👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/02/f...
Read it here 👉 ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/02/f...
Fact versus Fabrication: Popular Depictions of Francis Marion and the Historical Record
By Scott Kaufman More than a century ago, Sydney G. Fisher charged fellow historians with mythologizing the American Revolution. The colonists debated for years over whether to seek freedom from Gr…
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February 2, 2026 at 4:05 PM
This is a fun read. Have to admit I loved the Swamp Fox (but I wasn't allowed to watch much TV except Disney back in the '70s!). (Muppet show + Disney or the Nature of Things was the highlight of my week).
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😛 -Tufted Titmouse
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
😛 -Tufted Titmouse
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A pair of American Tree Sparrows snack on dock plant seeds.
January 31, 2026 at 10:14 PM
A pair of American Tree Sparrows snack on dock plant seeds.
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A male Northern Cardinal that was hopping his way along a snowy log.
January 29, 2026 at 10:32 PM
A male Northern Cardinal that was hopping his way along a snowy log.
Heh heh. Adding to my Columbian Exchange lecture for next year!
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Heh heh. Adding to my Columbian Exchange lecture for next year!
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As I'm mucking around with late 18th c girls' schools and curricula in British America, also utterly beguiled by this 1793 image of María Ignacia de Azlor y Echeverz (1715-1767), founder of the Compania de Maria in Mexico City. Books, pens and paper, instruments of learning! 1/
January 29, 2026 at 12:35 PM
As I'm mucking around with late 18th c girls' schools and curricula in British America, also utterly beguiled by this 1793 image of María Ignacia de Azlor y Echeverz (1715-1767), founder of the Compania de Maria in Mexico City. Books, pens and paper, instruments of learning! 1/
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January Thaw, Edge of Town
Lawren Harris
1921
Lawren Harris
1921
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 PM
January Thaw, Edge of Town
Lawren Harris
1921
Lawren Harris
1921
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A Golden-crowned Kinglet bopping around an Eastern Red Cedar. These little cuties seem to love the dense foliage of these trees in the winter.
January 28, 2026 at 9:58 PM
A Golden-crowned Kinglet bopping around an Eastern Red Cedar. These little cuties seem to love the dense foliage of these trees in the winter.
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#JamesBarryDiary 26/1/1876 26/1/1876 Cold last night and cold all this day too, but it was a blink of sun in the morning. Some snow falling in the afternoon – round snow. Calm though. Cunningham attending mill and kiln and myself in the bookbinding shop. I am middling.
January 27, 2026 at 2:18 AM
#JamesBarryDiary 26/1/1876 26/1/1876 Cold last night and cold all this day too, but it was a blink of sun in the morning. Some snow falling in the afternoon – round snow. Calm though. Cunningham attending mill and kiln and myself in the bookbinding shop. I am middling.
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I have the privilege of collaborating with Written in the Waves, an exciting scholastic initiative founded and directed by women who seek to highlight histories of the Atlantic.
Feel free to check out my profile and keep an eye out for future publications!
I have the privilege of collaborating with Written in the Waves, an exciting scholastic initiative founded and directed by women who seek to highlight histories of the Atlantic.
Feel free to check out my profile and keep an eye out for future publications!
Bethany Henderson
Meet the Contributor
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January 27, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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I have the privilege of collaborating with Written in the Waves, an exciting scholastic initiative founded and directed by women who seek to highlight histories of the Atlantic.
Feel free to check out my profile and keep an eye out for future publications!
I have the privilege of collaborating with Written in the Waves, an exciting scholastic initiative founded and directed by women who seek to highlight histories of the Atlantic.
Feel free to check out my profile and keep an eye out for future publications!
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Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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Historian Christopher Moore on Carney's Plains of Abraham speech: "o my surprise, Carney’s take on the long sweep of Canadian history seemed to be a pretty fair and sophisticated one." christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/2026/01/mark...
Mark Carney's take on Canadian history
From the media, I got the impression that Prime Minister Carney made a faux pas when he gave a speech about Canadian solidarity on the Plain...
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January 26, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Historian Christopher Moore on Carney's Plains of Abraham speech: "o my surprise, Carney’s take on the long sweep of Canadian history seemed to be a pretty fair and sophisticated one." christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com/2026/01/mark...
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Curious about the links between Scottish Highlands and the Maritimes? They’re more complicated than you might think. Please join us.
2026 Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Lecture!
Join us virtually on Tuesday 10 February at 1pm (EST)/6pm (UK) on Zoom for ‘’Nova Scotia and the Imperial Strategies of Highland Scots", delivered by Professor Karly Kehoe, Saint Mary's University.
FREE Registration: bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...
Join us virtually on Tuesday 10 February at 1pm (EST)/6pm (UK) on Zoom for ‘’Nova Scotia and the Imperial Strategies of Highland Scots", delivered by Professor Karly Kehoe, Saint Mary's University.
FREE Registration: bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Curious about the links between Scottish Highlands and the Maritimes? They’re more complicated than you might think. Please join us.
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1) My contribution to #America250: an analysis of the multiple, competing narratives of American history we have today, and why we are so divided over our past. @revolution250.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org
Re-Enchanting American History | Critical Historical Studies: Vol 12, No 2
Abstract Around the world, citizens and leaders seek to realign collective identities with political boundaries. These aspirations are reshaping the ways we discuss—and divide over—US history. This ar...
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January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
1) My contribution to #America250: an analysis of the multiple, competing narratives of American history we have today, and why we are so divided over our past. @revolution250.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org
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We're hiring a publicist! We're looking for someone dynamic, bilingual, and eager to help MQUP books reach the widest possible audiences.
This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office.
For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu
#READUP #JobsInBooks
This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office.
For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu
#READUP #JobsInBooks
January 26, 2026 at 4:06 PM
We're hiring a publicist! We're looking for someone dynamic, bilingual, and eager to help MQUP books reach the widest possible audiences.
This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office.
For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu
#READUP #JobsInBooks
This is for a six-month, full-time contract, based at our Montreal office.
For more details and to apply: buff.ly/zFYjMcu
#READUP #JobsInBooks
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Just because I saw and loved this last week.
January 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Just because I saw and loved this last week.
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Laying Low
Meghan Hildebrand
2025
Meghan Hildebrand
2025
January 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Laying Low
Meghan Hildebrand
2025
Meghan Hildebrand
2025
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A Black-capped Chickadee perches on a cattail reed along the nature path, waiting to see if sunflower seeds will be offered (which they were.)
January 22, 2026 at 10:00 PM
A Black-capped Chickadee perches on a cattail reed along the nature path, waiting to see if sunflower seeds will be offered (which they were.)