Here is a taste of Jerry Bannister‘s recent piece at Borealia: From the moment of Trump’s election four years ago, we have talked relentlessly about how long it will last. Fear of Tumpism is, at root, the fear of being...
Check out Tim Compeau‘s post at Borealia on a new project that will visualize the movement of men and women displaced by the American Revolution. A taste: Loyalist Migrations is a collaboration between Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the United Empire...
Back in May we reported on Keith Gtant’s Borealia post on new books in early Canadian history. Today we report on Part 2 of his roundup. Here is a taste: Welcome to Part 2 of Borealia’s 2016 roundup of forthcoming books on early Canadian...
I am a sucker for online roundups of new books. Over at Borealia blog, Keith Grant, the blog co-proprietor and a SSHRC Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholar, introduces us to some new books on early Canadian history. Here is a taste: Welcome...
Jeffers Lennox of Wesleyan University thinks so. Here is a taste of his piece at Borealia: The American Revolution wasn’t simply American. The Early National period was hardly national at all. From 1774 to at least 1815, regional linkages and...
Because history is often written by the winners, Whigs and patriots have long dominated the study of the American Revolution. Loyalists–or those men and women who supported the Crown during the Revolution–have thus received sort shrift in the narratives that...
We have mentioned Borealia here before. It is relatively new blog devoted to early Canadian history. Not only is the blog attractive, but it has also been putting out some really good content. In the past couple of months Keith...
Borealia, the website which has quickly become the go-to source for all things early Canada, gives us a glimpse of some forthcoming book on the subject. Here is Keith Grant’s introduction to the booklist: Welcome to the first Borealia roundup...
Borealia: A Group Blog on Early Canadian History continues to produce solid content. For example, today I read Christopher Minty’s post on the future of loyalist studies. As someone who does not write too much about loyalists, I found it to...
A couple of weekends ago the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture in Williamsburg hosted a conference titled “Emerging Histories of the Early Modern French Atlantic.” For those of you who were not at the conference, or did not...
If you have not discovered Borealia, you should go check it out. The editors of this blog are pushing us to expand our understanding of early America to include Canada. (Of course scholars have been doing this for a long...
I have been waiting for the arrival of Borealia, a new blog on early Canadian history edited by Keith Grant, a Ph.D candidate in history at New Brunswick University, and Denis McKim, a historian at Douglas College in British Columbia.Here […]
