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Best New Articles from January 2019

Image of a filled tea cup, alongside daisies and two books of poetry.

Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?

 

Special thanks to Anne Janhunen, Krista McCracken, and Maddie Knickerbocker for helping me think this through, and Alison Norman, Tom Peace, Krystl Raven, Adele Perry, and Erin Millions for their commentary on the Johnson piece.

Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.

This month I read articles from:

 

Here are my favourites:

 

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Historians Histories: Andrew Nurse

We’re back today with everyone’s favourite series, Historian’s Histories! If you’d like to see more posts from this series, you can do so here. This latest entry features Andrew Nurse – Editor of Acadiensis, baseball fan, and Historian at Mount Allison University.

Photo of Andrew NurseAndrew Nurse lives in Sackville, NB, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) peoples, with his wife and daughter (and formally a son who has moved away). He teaches Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University.

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Guest Post: Digitizing Legislative Documents and the BNA Legislative Database

This week’s special guest post comes to us from a familiar face: Stephanie Pettigrew, whom you may remember from this year’s CHA Reads! I’m very excited to share this guest post from her, which is based on her work on the upcoming British North America Legislative Database. This database, which is hosted by the University of New Brunswick under the direction of Elizabeth Mancke, collects together all legislation passed by the Pre-Confederation colonies of eastern British North America, including Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, PEI, New Brunswick, Upper Canada, Lower Canada, the United Canadas, and Newfoundland. The database is still under construction, but once it is complete, it will be an invaluable resource to historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as anyone who teaching Pre-Confederation Canadian history. It seeks to, among other things, remedy some of the searching problems found in other databases, like Early Canadiana Online (ECO). So without any further ado, enjoy!

Stephanie Pettigrew

Stephanie Pettigrew is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick studying the history of witchcraft in New France. She is also the project coordinator for the British North America Legislative Database (bnald.lib.unb.ca), which seeks to digitize all the pre-confederation legislative acts from the provincial legislative assembly.

 

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