Check out historian Scott McLaren‘s interesting piece at Borealia, a blog about early Canadian history. McLaren, the author of Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada, explores the ways early Methodist historians erased “the...
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...
In 1780, a smallpox outbreak that ravaged much of the Western North America arrived on the Northern Great Plains. According to historian Scott Berthelette, the disease spread from Mexico through “Indegenous horse-borne trading and warfare” and claimed tens of thousand...
Lawrence Hatter is Assistant Professor of History at Washington State University. This interview is based on his new book, Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border (University of Virginia Press, 2017). JF: What led you...
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...
Peter Macleod is Director of Research at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada. This interview is based on his new book, Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Making of the American Revolution (Knopf, 2016). JF:...
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...
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...
If your answer to this question is “yes,” then you should read Christopher Minty’s latest post at Borealia. It is a nice essay on using petition and oaths of allegiance to King George III for studying those who stayed loyal...
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 […]
It is summer conference-going season and The Way of Improvement Leads Home is on the beat. A few days ago Liz Covart reported from the New York State History Conference in Poughkeepsie. Today we hear from Keith S. Grant, a...
