Lindsay Gibson
@lsgibson.bsky.social
History & social studies educator @UBCEduc; #historicalthinking advocate; tea enthusiast; Habs devotee; bourgeois golfer; views mine; he/him/his.
Our beloved cat Rosa died in May at the age of 22. We dearly miss her and don’t want to get another cat. Luckily we have a neighbourhood cat named Simon who loves to come over and hang out for a few hours a day, including snuggle time.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Our beloved cat Rosa died in May at the age of 22. We dearly miss her and don’t want to get another cat. Luckily we have a neighbourhood cat named Simon who loves to come over and hang out for a few hours a day, including snuggle time.
Next up after the Chretien/Harper debate. Arthur Meighen vs Mackenzie King
October 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Next up after the Chretien/Harper debate. Arthur Meighen vs Mackenzie King
This dude represents all of us who watched this shitshow.
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This dude represents all of us who watched this shitshow.
The "ultimate" symbol of the complete and utter degradation of the Presidency and the White House.
September 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The "ultimate" symbol of the complete and utter degradation of the Presidency and the White House.
The claim that historians have retreated from political and diplomatic history and write jargon-laden texts that are inaccessible and unreadable is as old as it is tired.
Maybe focus on the historical reasons why the discipline of history is in steep decline at universities.
Maybe focus on the historical reasons why the discipline of history is in steep decline at universities.
September 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The claim that historians have retreated from political and diplomatic history and write jargon-laden texts that are inaccessible and unreadable is as old as it is tired.
Maybe focus on the historical reasons why the discipline of history is in steep decline at universities.
Maybe focus on the historical reasons why the discipline of history is in steep decline at universities.
History educators have also increasingly focused on the dispositions or habits of mind that teaching and learning history can nurture and foster. Curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, fairmindedness, etc....
September 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
History educators have also increasingly focused on the dispositions or habits of mind that teaching and learning history can nurture and foster. Curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, fairmindedness, etc....
Contingency is also a concept related to cause and consequence that history educators also regularly discuss.
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Contingency is also a concept related to cause and consequence that history educators also regularly discuss.
The horizontal axis focuses on what history educators have described as contextualization.
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The horizontal axis focuses on what history educators have described as contextualization.
The vertical access focuses on chronology and cause and consequence.
September 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The vertical access focuses on chronology and cause and consequence.
Yes, historical thinking has been conceptualized in terms of disciplinary knowledge and epistemological understandings for making sense of the past.
September 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yes, historical thinking has been conceptualized in terms of disciplinary knowledge and epistemological understandings for making sense of the past.
Historical perspective and ethical judgment.
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Historical perspective and ethical judgment.
Continuity and change
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Continuity and change
Discussing cause and consequence as well as continuity and change.
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Discussing cause and consequence as well as continuity and change.
History educators refer to this as periodization.
September 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
History educators refer to this as periodization.
Canadian Liberal MPs give a standing ovation to Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons, while MP Vince Gasparro uses false and malicious claims to ban a band for opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Canadian Liberal MPs give a standing ovation to Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons, while MP Vince Gasparro uses false and malicious claims to ban a band for opposing the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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Classic west coast moment. Eating candied salmon on the sandstone shores of Galiano Island overlooking the Salish Sea.
September 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Classic west coast moment. Eating candied salmon on the sandstone shores of Galiano Island overlooking the Salish Sea.
McDonald's in Canada going with the Axis of Flavour in these perilous times seems incredibly historically ignorant.
July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
McDonald's in Canada going with the Axis of Flavour in these perilous times seems incredibly historically ignorant.
July 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Four orcas pass by the beach we go to on Galiano island. First time in three years I’ve seen orcas there. Awe-inspiring.
June 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Four orcas pass by the beach we go to on Galiano island. First time in three years I’ve seen orcas there. Awe-inspiring.
"The job of the US Armed Forces is not hosting drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun."
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"The job of the US Armed Forces is not hosting drag shows to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun."
Hamilton. Straight out of the 1960s
May 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hamilton. Straight out of the 1960s
Baby arbutus tree seeds I planted in the fall are popping up.
May 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Baby arbutus tree seeds I planted in the fall are popping up.
Except for imperialism, colonialism, racism, and genocide, scotch broom is the worst import from the UK to the Pacific Coast of NA.
May 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Except for imperialism, colonialism, racism, and genocide, scotch broom is the worst import from the UK to the Pacific Coast of NA.