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Keith Grant

@keithsgrant.bsky.social

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PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | CoEditor http://earlycanadianhistory.ca

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 3h

The #BlueJays are off to the ALCS

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

Fall At My Place
Christopher Pratt
2004

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

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Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Peter L. Twohig @ptwohig.bsky.social · 1d

Happy to announce the latest edition of Acadiensis is available:
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If you are working on topics of interest, shoot me an email.

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ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social · 1d

Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall!

Interested? Click here for more information: activehistory.ca/blog/2025/10...

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 2d

Fall Asters
Molly Lamb Bobak
n.d.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Base Hit
Kenneth Lochhead
1993

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Evening, Nipigon River
Yvonne McKague Housser
n.d.

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 8d

The editors at Active History have put together a list of resources to help you contextualize the #NDTR & the history of #ResidentialSchools. activehistory.ca/blog/2025/09...

On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report on the history of residential schools in Canada. Mandated to “inform all Canadians about what happened in reside…

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Jess Dunkin @jdunkin.bsky.social · 8d

Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 9d

Leaf of Gold
W.J. Phillips
1941

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 8d

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 8d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · 11d

*the novel and the _____* available now from mighty @hopkinspress.bsky.social use discount code HTNAB25 #bookhistory #skystorians #18c #vastearlyamerica #c18 #c19

Matthew P. Brown @mpbrown.bsky.social · Apr 7

guys come for the book trades yawning, stay for the sex-gender system critique, THE NOVEL AND THE BLANK forthcoming august 2025 from big ups publisher @hopkinspress.bsky.social

page proof prose from *the novel and the blank: a literary history of the book trades in eighteenth-century british america*

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 9d

It's finally in my hands! @harvardpress.bsky.social did such a wonderful job with the jacket. It's available for preorder, and will ship (to anyone in the US or Canada) on October 28th. #EnvHist #Astronomy #Space

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10d

Jay Birds
Robbie Craig
n.d.

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Mountains Near Revelstoke, B.C.
Doris McCarthy
1937

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Alejandro Kirk
Mike Nguyen
2022

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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 10d

Grand slam, Alejandro Kirk.

What a moment in Game 162. #BlueJays

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12d

Autumn, Digby Neck
Maud Lewis
c. 1962

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 12d

My blurb: "Manuel Barcia brilliantly shows how the concept ‘pirate’ … served the vast and violent purposes of empire. He also demonstrates that the theme of piracy broadly conceived now attracts the best scholars exploring the biggest issues in global history.”

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