Renée Girard
reneegb.bsky.social
Renée Girard
@reneegb.bsky.social
Historienne, XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Atlantic studies, French-Indigenous food encounters in New France. Food studies.
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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ma découverte de l’été !
August 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The VP whose government deleted any official documents containing words like "diversity" and banished a wire service for refusing to rename a body of water accused EUROPE of free-speech restrictions for... keeping a Nazi-legacy party out of governments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
German Chancellor Rebukes Vance for Supporting Party That Downplays Nazis (Gift Article)
At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Pour ceux et celles qui peuvent lire via abonnement ou la plateforme Eurêka (avec abonnement dans les bibliothèques) - ou je peux transmettre par message.
Très éclairant.
www.humanite.fr/en-debat/his...
Johann Chapoutot : « Ce sont les libéraux autoritaires qui ont porté les nazis au pouvoir » - L'Humanité
Professeur à Sorbonne Université, spécialiste du nazisme, Johann Chapoutot vient de publier un ouvrage qui détaille l’accession d’Hitler à la tête de l’Allemagne entre 1930 et 1...
www.humanite.fr
February 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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"C'est la Chandeleur, première fête populaire de l’hiver on fait des crêpes. Dans les crêpes, on met des petits objets pour deviner ce que nous serons au cours de l’année ou de notre vie. Pièce d’argent =richesse, guenille=pauvreté, bois=menuisier, etc." via Philippe Basque, historien #Acadie
February 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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My article on Black Nova Scotian leader Rev. Richard Preston is now published @acadiensis.bsky.social (now on @projectmuse.bsky.social ): muse-jhu-edu.proxy.hil.unb.ca/pub/284/arti....
January 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📚 Nouvelle réflexion sur l'invisibilisation des historiennes

Emmy Bois (Université de Sherbrooke) et Louise Lainesse (Université de Montréal) proposent une analyse essentielle sur la sous-représentation des femmes dans les milieux historiens.

histoireengagee.ca/quel-avenir-...
Quel avenir pour les ouvrières de Clio ? L’invisibilisation des femmes dans le milieu de l’histoire - Histoire Engagée
Par Emmy Bois, Université de Sherbrooke, et Louise Lainesse, Université de Montréal, doctorantes en histoire Au Québec comme ailleurs, la professionnalisation de la discipline historique a essentie
histoireengagee.ca
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM
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Delighted to share the first of three posts @nichecanada.bsky.social on a cool assignment @lootina.bsky.social and I did in our co-taught graduate course on global #envhist this term. We asked students to reflect on "the place where you live": niche-canada.org/2024/12/02/t...
The Place Where You Live: Southwestern British Columbia
Tina Loo introduces a series of essays from her global environmental history course, where students explored the concept of "place" through personal stories, reflecting on its emotional, historical, a...
niche-canada.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:14 PM
La dernière rose qui résiste malgré tout, un symbole d’espoir
November 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
November 22, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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"A close reading of surviving textual and archaeological sources suggests that Europeans Indigenous peoples viewed birds as key to the Northwest Atlantic .... There could be no cod without the gannet, no whale-hunt without the auk".
Today on our site Jack Bouchard introduces his recent Environmental History article, "Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic" - niche-canada.org/2024/11/20/b...

#envhist #earlymodern #animalhistory
Fishwork is for the Birds
Despite the watery gaze of modern historians, it is time to acknowledge that mariners in the past spent much of their time looking upward.
niche-canada.org
November 20, 2024 at 8:50 PM
November 15, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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The virtual version of our latest exhibit, "Learning to Sail, Living at Sea: Vernaculars of Transatlantic Knowledge," is now live!

Check it out at:
shorturl.at/mWLIg
November 15, 2024 at 3:27 PM