Canadian History Roundup – Week of August 19, 26, and September 2, 2018

The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.

 

Missed the last roundup? Check it out here.

 

Week of August 19, 2018

Environmental History

• The most commonly used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Kavanaugh,” “Said,” and “Court.”
• Stephanie Halmhofer put together a great Twitter essay on how Indigenous peoples domesticated corn, and, in doing so, modified its genes, around 9,000 years ago.
• This week on NiCHE, Darcy Ingram reviewed David Calverley’s Who Controls the Hunt? First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939.

 

Military History

• Stephanie Bellissimo shared the history of Grant Lockhead, a Canadian who was incarcerated in a German POW camp for the entirety of WW1, and the ways in which gardening helped to improve the mental health of the prisoners.
• WW1 lost love-letter alerts. Bring on the tissues.
• Speaking of which, check out part three of the Barrie Historical Archive’s look at the wartime letters of Peggy Newman.
• Geoffrey Hates reviewed Ian McKay and Jamie Swift’s The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War, for the Laurier Centre.
• Four soldiers who died at the Battle of Hill 70 were buried this week: Private John (Jack) Henry Thomas, Private William Del Donegan, Private Henry Priddle, and Sergeant Archibald Wilson. The latter three men were recently identified using forensic anthropology techniques.
• LAC continued their Victoria Cross winners series this week with a couple new entries for:
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Hew Clark-Kennedy
  • Lieutenant Charles S. Rutherford
• Jack Granatstein wrote a new piece for Maclean’s on how Canada broke through the Hindenburg line in 1918.
• There are concerns about public access to a memorial for the Canadian soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan.

 

Archaeology

• Students from UNB have unearthed 300-year-old human remains from the Rocheford Point burial ground near the Fortress of Louisbourg.
  • More here.
• That model of the Avro Arrow that was discovered in Lake Ontario last year has been recovered.
• Two pieces of the Victoria Hall, a Winnipeg Theatre that burned in 1926, went up for sale on Kijiji.
• The McGill-Queens University Press blog shared an excerpt from Douglas Hunter’s latest book, Beardmore: The Viking Hoax that Rewrote History.The hoax in question was a purported Viking grave found in northern Ontario.

 

Transnational History

• The Canadian International History Committee blog had two new posts this week.
  • First, Iain Johnston-White explored how the history of Canadian relations with Britain and the US may shape negotiations following Brexit.
  • And Elisabetta Kerr showcased a newly released briefing book from the CIHC (available online here), which includes recently declassified documents from the Cold War. Fantastic material for any course…
• There is a historical mystery about the disappearance of a group of enslaved North Africans, West Africans, and South Americans (probably Indigenous peoples) who were aboard Francis Drake’s ship in 1586. Also, the Indigenous women on board may have invented mojitos. Yes, history is frequently stranger than fiction.

 

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• Jan Raska wrote a new piece for Active History this week on the Prague Spring Refugees who came to Canada between September 1968 and January 1969.
• The latest profile on the Scots in BC blog is by Emily von Euw, and focuses on the life of early twentieth-century educator, Jane Murie Peebles.

 

Indigenous History

• Eugene Brave Rock (Blood Tribe, Blackfeet Confederacy), who recently starred in Wonder Woman, spoke with Jack Davey on the Beyond the Spectacle blog about his experiences making the movie, and how he relied on archival research and the Oral Tradition of his people to create the character of Napi.
• An American archaeologist may have found the ancient city of Etzanoa. The city, the second largest after Cahokia, was reputed to be home to over 20,000 people and flourished for around 200 years, until it was decimated by the Spanish in the 17^th century. Witchita Nation, the descendents of the Etzanoans, are watching the dig, and, of course, already knew the city was there.
• The Globe and Mail explained how intergenerational trauma from residential schools and the Sixties Scoop continues to affect Indigenous peoples and communities across the country.
• Russell Potter shared the stories of two Inuit communities in Nunatsiavut (in Labrador), Hopedale and Hebron, and how the people in each experienced colonialism.
• Russell Potter also remembered the late Inuk historian, Louis Kamookak.
• Find out more details about the awesome new exhibit at Algoma University on the history of Shingwauk Indian Residential School! The article features interviews with survivor Shirley Roach (Garden River First Nation) as well as Krista McCracken!
• The Toronto Star profiled the work of Anglican Church of Canada archivist, Nancy Hurn, who has devoted her career to helping the families of children sent to residential schools find out what happened to their loved ones.
• Find out about recent attempts to recover and revitalize Indigenous sign languages across North America.
• I’m sure you will be shocked to learn about allegations of Manitoba Hydro workers who sexually assaulted Indigenous women while building hydro-electric projects there in the 1960s. Content warning.
• Thanks to the Inuvialuit Living History Project, replicas and artifacts from the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre and Ivvavik National Park are being returned to their communities, though only temporarily for now.
• The federal government has reached a settlement with two of the four Indigenous men (Luke Monias and Norman Barkman, of Garden Hill First Nation) from northern Manitoba who were switched at birth in 1975.
• The City of Ottawa and the City of Ottawa Archives have launched their own interactive history app, called The Time Traveller. It’s free, but only appears to be available on iOS.

 

New France/British North America

• What do syphilis and French fishing rights have in common? Find out this LAC blog post about early Canadian printers and two of their oldest Canadian printed works.
• Russell Potter shared some new research on the role of lead poisoning in the demise of the Franklin Expedition.TL;DR: it didn’t play as much of a role as previously thought.
• Check out the final post in our CHA series, featuring Stephanie Pettigrew, in which she discusses how digital humanities techniques can help us learn more about hidden populations!

 

Political History

• In this latest blog post, Patrick Lacroix recounted the Flint Affair and the fight for a French religious leader in Little Canada.
• Despite the many samples made for entries received in the 1964 new Canadian flag competition, only three survive.

 

Social History

• Dan Malleck looked back on the history of Ontario’s laws related to drugs and alcohol.
• The latest LAC Flickr album is for the sport of rugby! Check it out here.
• The St. Francis de Sales Deaf Ministry celebrated its 100^thanniversary this week! The Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto blog looked back at their history in celebration.
• Ok, this is pretty cool, and a former student of mine, Leanne Mclearen, pointed it out to me!

 

The History of Gender and Sexuality

• This week guest writer Kevin Allen wrote a new blog post for Retroactive on the life of Everett Klippert.

 

Local History

• The Whyte Museum blog shared some of the images of flora in their collection taken by Mary Schäffer.
• In the midst of wildfires, the Chilliwack museum shared some images of early 20^thcentury firefighting vehicles.
• The ICH blog shared the history of a Newfoundland work, Linkum.
  • And here is an addendum from the following week.
• This week, Heritage Winnipeg took us on a tour of Albert Street.
• Whistorical shared an account of childhood summers at Alta Lake from Betty Jane Warner, whose family visited each year between 1927 and 1934.
• Check out this beautiful hooked mat of the Québec Bridge, courtesy of the Canadian History Museum.
• Did you know that some of Vancouver’s oldest streets were paved with wood?
• Continuing on the theme from last week’s blog post, Eve Lazarus showcased the 1981 PNE Prize Home. And it’s a pretty funny story too.
• Bashir Mohamed put together this Twitter essay on awesome histories from Alberta.

 

Digital and Public History

• The battle for Cupid, Newfoundland’s history is on.
• Afua Cooper wrote a must-read piece on the lack of any memorial in Halifax to the Jamaican Maroons, or any other Black presence in the city. The post also appeared this week on Active History (week of September 2^nd).
• And here is your weekly update on Monument Wars:
  • Scotland has decided to disassociate itself with Sir JAM, removing all mentions of him from their website.
    • More here.
  • Andrew Scheer is grumpy about the statue being removed from Victoria City Hall. Content warning: Andrew Scheer talking.
• As I reported previously, there is a movement to designate a new national holiday to honour residential school survivors. Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (Sagkeeng First Nation) and Andrew Stobo Sniderman have a really poignant piece about why this should only be a beginning.
• A group of scholars at Assiniboine Community College and Brandon University, including Rhonda Hinther, have just received a grant to create a new virtual reality experience on a WW1 internment camp in Brandon.
• Memorial University is in the process of recovering its digital archives after the massive server outage that happened on July 5.
• Did you go to Western’s nursing school in the past 100 years, or have a relative that did? Then Western Libraries and the University Archives wants to hear from you! They are planning a new exhibit celebrating the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing’s 100^th anniversary in 2020.
• There are two new online exhibits from the Virtual Museum of Canada this week:
  • One on the history of eel fishing in the Côte-du-Sud Region.
  • And one on the Paris Crew, one of Canada’s first international sporting teams.

 

Doing History

• LAC has released an updated research guide to their early census records!
• My favourite archive, the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives (previously the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives), is moving! Which is awesome, because damn was that basement cold in the winter.

 

Miscellaneous

• LAC shared the story of the Eastern Arctic Patrol of 1945, where the HBC sent supplies to its northern station and rotated out employees. The blog post focuses on the experiences of dentist Roy Gordon Hemmerich, particularly his witnessing of a murder trial, where Miktaeyout (Inuk) was accused of murdering her husband.
• I can’t even describe this one. Just go and see it for yourself.
• The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for David Wesley Bole.

 

 Podcasts

• In a special 200^thepisode of the Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Liz Covart spoke with Johann Neem, Joseph Adelman, and Ann Little about everyday life in colonial North America.
• And in this week’s History Chats episode, Megan Davies and David revile  presented, “Locating Parkdale’s Mad History: Back Wards to Back Streets, 1980-2010.”

 

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Week of August 26, 2018

Environmental History

• The most commonly used words in #envhist over the last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “environmental,” “History,” and “Environmental.”
• Jessica also shared her comps notes from Leslie Bella’s, Parks for Profit.
• Over on NiCHE this week, Claire Campbell reviewed I. Little’s, Fashioning the Canadian Landscape: Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era.

 

Military History

• The latest addition to LAC’s series on Victoria Cross winners is Private Claude Nunney.
• Check out part four of the Barrie Historical Archive’s series on Peggy Newman’s wartime letters.
• The Laurier Centre posted part two of their look at how WW1 impacted the life of one New Edinburg family, written by Alan Bowker.
• Supt, France is unveiling a new memorial to the 3,000 Canadian Forestry engineers from WW1, including members of the storied No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada’s only Black battalion.
• Personal effects belonging to Private Harold Joyce, who died serving in WW1, have returned home to New Brunswick.

 

Transnational History

• Continuing with his look at Franco-American religious controversies, Patrick Lacroix turned his attention to the Lay Catholic Congress in a transnational context.
• Darcy Taylor has written a second blog post accompanying the release of the new digital briefing book on Canadian Cold War documents by the Canadian International History Committee. In this post, he explores the Canadian response to the American “New Look” policy.

 

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• Bashir Mohamed shared the story of the murder of Elias Aguilar Ramirez by Tearlach Mac A Phearsoin, the leader of the Alberta KKK.

 

Indigenous History

• Amateur French historian, Yann Castelnot, has spent the last two years compiling one of the largest databases of Indigenous soldiers, including more than 18,000 who were born in the area currently known as Canada.
• The remains of an Indigenous fortification built in the 1600s has just been rediscovered by archaeologists. Among the finds are artifacts dating back 3,000 years, showing continuous use of the site for millennia. Archaeologists believe the fortification belonged to the Norwalk Indian Tribe (which appears to be no longer in existence), and the dig is being conducted in consultation with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes.
• A group of unmarked graves belonging to children who attended the Brandon Residential School has just been found, under an RV Park.

  

New France/British North America

• Find out about the surprisingly intimate relationship between some Victorian McGill academics and their favourite flowers.
• This week on the Ottawa Rewind blog, Andrew King showcased the Codex Canadiensis, an illustrated manuscript showing life in the area now referred to as New France in the 1600s.
• Russell Potter shared a short story about John Ross’ search for the North West Passage, a naming controversy, and how Crocker Glacier received its English name.
• Parrots, toucans, and sea monsters, oh my! Check out this look by BAnQ at the illustrations on Jodocus Hondius’ map of the Americas, published in 1606.

 

Social History

• Who else still gets excited about back to school time? I have a mild addiction to notebooks. Dartmouth Heritage Museum is also excited, and shared some photos of back to school time from their collections.
• I’m not sure if this is an awesome or depressing story: Stéphane Luca’s mother Roxanne was killed in 1981 in Longueil. Unable to access the police report, he went to BAnQ, and was able to access the coroner’s report and all of the files from the police investigation. And there were no restrictions on these files. It’s unclear how this happened, and major questions remain.
  • The same story in French is available here.
• In the wake of new measles outbreaks, Laurence Monnais took a look at the history of the disease in Canada. Please vaccinate.

 

The History of Gender and Sexuality

• CBC spoke with Kevin Allen about the Calgary Gay History Project!

 

Local History

• Whistorical looked back at the history of horse riding at Rainbow Lodge.
• The Toronto Public Library celebrated the history of the Toronto Blue Jays. EXPOS FOREVER!
• The City of Richmond Archives is back with part three of their look at Richmond’s town halls. I shudder to think about many times that poor cenotaph has been moved.
• Heritage Winnipeg profiled the Ambassador Apartments this week. I’ve always though flatiron buildings were cool.
• Did you know that Jimi Hendrix lived in Vancouver with his grandmother for a while?

 

Digital and Public History

• Monument Wars continues…
  • A Saskatchewan resident vandalized a Regina Sir JAM statue.
  • The Star spoke with Indigenous activists, Garret Smith (Sikiska from the Piikani Nation) and Michelle Robinson (Dené) about why taking down statues is not a priority for them.The article also includes quotes from James Dashuk, Shannon Stunden Bower, and Nancy Janovicek.
  • Lisa Helps apologized for offending anyone with the removal of the statue, which I was disappointed to hear.
  • Joanne Hammond explained the role that our collective historical memory plays, and who gets to decide which memories become history and truth, are important parts of the Sir JAM statue debate.
  • And the City of Kingston is seeking public opinions about what to do with their Sir JAM statue.
• Find out about the work being done to preserve the BC Penitentiary Cemetery.

 

Doing History

• Le Devoir has started a new series looking at smaller local archives in Quebec. Their first entry looks at the archives of the L’Univers culturel de Saint Sulpice in Montreal.

 

Miscellaneous

• BAnQ celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the staging of the Belles-soeurs in Quebec.
• The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for HBC employee, William McKay.

 

Podcasts

• The latest episode of the History Chats podcast features Lisa Rumile’s talk, “Three Mile Island to Bhopoal: The Life and Work of Environmental Activist Rosalie Bertell.”

 

Calls for Papers

• Jon K. Lauck and Gleaves Whitney are seeking proposals for a new edited collection entitled, The Northern Midwest and the US/Canadian Borderlands: Essays on a Forgotten Region. Proposals are due November 19.

 

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Week of September 2, 2018

Environmental History

• The most commonly used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: “Environmental,” “Falls,” and “Sharknado.”
• Greg Kennedy has written the latest post in NiCHE’s collaboration with Boraelia on early modern environmental history. In this post, he explores the idea of a Meghalayan geologic age as a theoretical framework for understanding Mi’kmaw/Acadian relations in the seventeenth century and the role of agency.
• Who knew fruit history could be so exciting? I mean, besides Jan Hadlaw and Ben Bradley.
• This week on the Whyte Museum blog, guest writer Eden Luymes discussed some of the first people to study glaciers in the Canadian Rockies, the Vaux family.
• Joanne Hammond provided some historical perspective on forest mismanagement and BC wildfires.

 

Military History

• The latest blog post from the Canadian Centre for the Great War looks at the Canadian advance and how they broke the Drocourt-Quéant Line.
• The latest additions to the LAC series on Victoria Cross winners are:
  • Private Walter Leigh Rayfield
  • Captain Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, Sergeant Arthur George Knight, Lieutenant-Corporal William Henry Metcalf, Lieutenant-Colonel Cyrus Wesley Peck, and Private John Francis Young
    • The latter are grouped together because LAC publishes these posts on the 100^th anniversary of the incident that led to the VC being awarded.
• Sarah Glassford has written a new piece for Active History this week looking at how children understood the Great War, with a close look at a story composed by Kathleen Barry, age twelve, in 1917-1918.
• Catch up with Peggy Newman in part five of the Barrie Historical Archive’s look at her wartime letters.
• Do you know about Sangro, the pet monkey of the 166^th (Newfoundland) Field Regiment?

 

Archaeology

• This week, Retroactive took a deep dive into Alberta’s petrified wood, where it comes from, and how it has been used by Indigenous peoples to create tools for at least the last 13,000 years.
• Check out this update from Parks Canada about the excavations ongoing at the wrecks of the Franklin Expedition ships.
• A cache of 19^th century coins has just been found in Dawson City, likely buried during the Klondike Gold Rush. Or do they mean a cash of coins?? Oh, I’m so punny.
• Find out what archaeologists found at a Nova Scotia Museum excavation at Hawk Beach, in Nova Scotia.
• Those Avro Arrow models I mentioned earlier are currently having a spa week. Or month?
• A Royal Canadian Geographic Society expedition has discovered the wreck of a Scottish whaling ship in the High Arctic. The ship in question, the Nova Zembla, sank in 1902.

 

History Education

• I was really pleased to translate this awesome blog post for Catherine Larochelle and Active History on using Crystal Gail Fraser (Gwichya Gwich’in from Inuvik and Dachan Choo Gèhnjik) and Sara Komarnisky’s #150 Acts of Reconciliation in the classroom.
• UVic librarian Pia Russell has created a digital archive that collects Canadian history textbooks from BC published between 1877 and 1963. Check out the textbooks themselves here. The CBC article profiling this digital archive focuses on problematic depictions of Indigenous peoples in these textbooks, as well as those that are more recent.
• This is not strictly history, but I would urge all of you to take a look at the report emerging from CAUT’s recent survey of contract faculty and their working conditions.

 

Transnational History

• The UBC Digitizer’s Blog takes us on a virtual tour of international ads from the CPR!
• Check out this sneak peak at what’s coming up this year from Beyond Borders!

 

Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History

• This week Patrick Lacroix focused on conflicts between Franco-Americans and Irish immigrants, and the corporation sole controversy.
• Heritage Toronto is planning to install two new plaques commemorating British Home Children.
• Also on Active History this week, Jennine Hurl-Eamon looked at the use of immigration lotteries and family reunification in Canadian history, with a particular focus on the eighteenth century.
• Bashir Mohamed published several fantastic pieces this week, including:
  • A look at an all-Black baseball team established in Edmonton in 1910
  • A new piece for The Sprawl on Calgary civil rights champion, Charles Daniels.
• There is a new film out highlighting the experiences of Canadian WW1 internees.
• Find about the work that went into honoring the sacrifice of Private Frederick Lee, of Kamloops, BC, one of the roughly 300 Canadians of Chinese descent who served in WW1.
• Justin Trudeau is planning to issue an apology on November 7th for turning away the MS St. Louis.
• This Friday, a new sign was unveiled at the Hope-Princeton Roadcamp, commemorating the 75^thanniversary of Japanese-Canadian internment in BC.

 

Indigenous History

• In her latest post for the Beyond the Spectacle blog, Jenny Hale shared the complicated story of John Wompas, a Nipmuc man who came to London in the seventeenth century seeking permission to sell land in North America.
• A hiker has found a 1,500 year old bone arrowhead near the Dempster Highway in Yukon, in the territory of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in and Na-Cho Nyak Dun First Nations. What’s particularly impressive is that she reported the find.
• Khelsilem (Squamish Nation) put together a fantastic Twitter essay on the Squamish men who constituted Local 526 of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1906, forming the first Vancouver waterfront union.
• Phyllis (Jack) Webstad (Northern Secwpemc (Shuswap) from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation (Canoe Creek Indian Band)), the founder of Orange Shirt Day, has written a children’s book about her experiences at a residential school.
• In the wake of the Trans Mountain decision, James Cullingham looks back on the Trudeau approach to Aboriginal rights.
• I think the Moccasin Identifier Project, established by Carolyn King (Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation), is super cool.
• In the latest edition of the Dig it column, Ramsay McKee explained how obsidian can help us to trace the vast Indigenous trade networks that existed in North America for thousands of years.
• I’m not going to get into the fire at the National Museum of Brazil, since it is outside of the scope of this roundup. However, some of the artifacts that were destroyed in the blaze came from Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest.
  • If you would like to read some important thoughts on the fire, particularly with respect to Indigenous ancestral relations and Indigenous languages, please do check those links out. However, be warned that the comments can be really nasty.
• Check out this beautiful 600 year old Thule Inuit comb.

 

New France/British North America

• Keith Grant posted an update on Borealia, including an announcement about a new editor, Laura Smith!

 

Political History

• Catherine Carstairs, Marcel Martel, and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah spoke with Steve Paikin about the history of marijuana legislation in Canada.

 

Social History

• I love old fashioned school desks.
• Continuing in their tour around the culinary world, the latest Flickr album from LAC is about dinner. Check out the images yourself here.

 

Labour History

• You can now read Jason Russell’s latest book, Making Managers in Canada, 1945-1995: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities, online for free.
• The Toronto Public Library looked back at the history of the First Labour Day in Toronto.

 

Local History

• Eve Lazarus remembered the establishment of the Vancouver International Airport, fifty years ago this week.
• CBC took a look at the many buried waterways of Winnipeg, though, as someone pointed out on Twitter, the same story could be told about most Canadian cities.
• Bill Waiser has an update on a story he brought us in October 2017.
• In their 500^th blog post (congrats!), the Vancouver As It Was blog is on the case of the mistaken garden identity.
• Heritage Winnipeg remembered the James Avenue Pumping Station.
• And Whistorical looked back at images of school days from their collection.
• Wanna take a tour of Steveston, one of my favourite places in Richmond?

 

Digital and Public History

• A group of Canadian museum curators have written an op-ed in response to a recent federal court ruling regarding the grounds for the export or donation of a work of art. Since this isn’t a subject I know well, I turned to Krista McCracken for some help, and they suggested I check out this piece for a more nuanced take. Thanks, Krista!
• Speaking of Krista, they and Danielle Robichaud published a fantastic piece in Medium on editing Wikipedia as reconciliation! It is an absolute must-read.
• And again, this week on Unwritten Histories, Krista and Jessica Knapp wrote a special guest post about their second annual Canadian History Edit-a-Thon.
• The PRDH (Programme de recherche en démographie historique of the Drouin Genealogical Institute) has just received a massive new update!

 

Doing History

• Adam Chapnick wrote a thought-provoking piece this week for Active History, about how and why historians should become more comfortable with interdisciplinary studies.
• LAC is currently conducting an online survey to shape their upcoming strategic plan.
• In Alexandre Lapalme’s latest blog post for Histoire Engagée, he explored how archives can be useful for studying the history of libel and defamation.
• The Highways Branch Series of Public Works fonds is now available to researchers working at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
• The City of Winnipeg Archives are in very poor condition.

 

Miscellaneous

• This week marked the twentieth anniversary of the crash of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia.
• And CBC looked back at Canada’s worst airline disaster of its day, the crash of the Flagship Erie in 1941.
• Find out how the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto recognized the value of television.
• I’ve always thought that it is super cool how whole houses can be moved.
• The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for Joseph-Émile Vanier.

 

Podcasts

• In the most recent episode of the On War and Society podcast, host Amy Milne-Smith spoke with Mark Humphries, Claire Cookson-Hills, Bruce Moncur, and Marie-Claude Gagnon about mental trauma following WW1.
• I highly recommend the latest episode of Krista McCracken’s Historical Reminiscents podcast, on open access information.

 

Calls for Papers

• Are you teaching a course on environmental history? Then NiCHE wants to hear from you!
• The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has issued a CFP for a one-day conference on the role of naval bases in North America, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Proposals are due October 30^th, and the conference will take place on May 30^th, 2019.

 

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