We need historians because the past is never just the past.
Every policy debate, public conversation, and cultural shift is shaped by what came before. Historians help us understand context, trace change over time, and recognize what’s at stake.
#TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️
This is great!! Thanks Tina. Looking forward to reading it.
Email sent.
Graphic representing the different sectors of the economy in which you can find history majors, with the most common being Management (14%), K12 (11%), Law (11%), and Business and Finance (10%).
Careers fields of History majors.
Fight the gross misrepresentations about what you can do with a History major.
Especially from your parents.
ChatGPT: You’re so right, archivist. Eating the document would help preserve it using a new storage solution — one that's never been tried before in the archive sector. You wouldn't just be enjoying a cheap lunch, you would be furthering archival science for the world.
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
Fading, but yes it’s still there.
The climatologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The epidemiologist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The activist told me
historians
will wonder
why we didn’t do more.
The historian told me
that nobody
listens to historians.
We are pleased to share that Improving Upper Canada by Ross Fair has been awarded the 2025 Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History!
Congratulations to the author.
Read the announcement: bit.ly/48KNTQR
#CanadianHistory #OntarioHistory @torontomet.bsky.social
I'm pleased to learn that The Champlain Society has awarded me its 2025 Floyd S. Chalmers Award for my book, Improving Upper Canada. #cdnhist #envhist #onhist #aghist
A multi-part headline in multiple fonts from the Fergus News-Record, 2 June 1887. The Grave Robbery. / Money the Object of the Scoundrels! / The Body Recovered at Toronto! / IT WAS TAKEN DOWN IN A TRUNK AND SOLD TO A MEDICAL COLLEGE. / Brought Back to Fergus and Re-interred! / Terrible Feeling of Indignation among the People!
For #Halloween let me resurrect (from the long-deceased and dearly-missed Torontoist) a piece I wrote about resurrection men who supplied Toronto's medical schools. Grave Robbing! Luggage! Trains! "Terrible Feeling of Indignation among the People!"
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Very sad news about the loss of historian Tim Cook, who died far too young. His impact on our understanding of Canadian military history was just massive. An outstanding historian. He will be missed.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wm Mills and Wm Gilkison built a ropewalk at Amherstburg, UC in 1804. It operated until Amherstburg was torched by retreating British forces in Sept. 1813. Surving equipment was sold off in 1816. See 1804 plan in LAC collections: tinyurl.com/5dtfkzd2
Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger
Historians are often tempted to tell you something is "worth about X in today's dollars." Here's why I think you should not do that, and what I think you should do instead
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The taste of my childhood summers! Every year my mom would order 2 bushels of Niagara peaches for canning and pies. Note to self: make peach pie this summer…
Why did historic artists make so many paintings of extremely large cows?
Our curator @olliedouglas.bsky.social reveals all!
Perfect description of why so many historians in particular are hostile to AI
Today’s must read from American historian and Yale professor, Timothy Snyder
snyder.substack.com/p/the-absurd...
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
Front and back of a family photo: on the front, an older woman, sitting in a chair. On the back, the words "Mother's mother".
How not to label your family photographs.
#MakeNewFranceGreatAgain
#WhatEvenIsThisReality
#NouvelleFrance #VastEarlyAmerica #PoliticalHumor #NewFrance
STEEL MILLS CLOSED; NEW TARIFF BLAMED --The York Dispatch, 18 Nov 1913
1913
Every day I get closer to understanding how it must have felt when the incoming Senator was Caligula's horse.
I'm Julius Ceasar being stabbed to death by ChatGPT, Google Search AI, Grammarly, Microsoft AutoCorrect
I just want to teach them to write...
Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself."
Earlier that day:
🗃️ #C19th #Genealogy #LocalHistory
A reminder that if you need an excel calculator that works with pounds, shillings and pence, I have one you can download and use freely. Please share…
chartistancestors.blog/2023/07/12/n...
"you'll be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits
A faint writing, the text is in Latin and it reads: Domina magistra felhin date mihi licenciam in hac nocte vigilare cum magistra adalu et ego vobis ambabus manibus confirmo atque iuro ut per totam noctem declinare volo aut legere aut pro seniore nostro cantare Valete et ut peto facite. (Abbreviations have been resolved in this transcription).
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
