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Ged Martin, the British scholar of (mostly) Commonwealth histories, diverges a moment from his usual range of topics to provide a very detai...

The downside of using digital collections of historical newspapers -- and being able to use them is mostly all upside, I hasten to add -- is...

The Memorious blog has recently run Ted McCormick's analysis of "Why Most Narrative History is Wrong" by Alex Rosenberg, p...

Even amid the longterm decline or relative decline of blogging as a cultural and intellectual force, summer has tended to be the doldrums...

Gotta say I'm just knocked out with admiration of Andrea Eidinger's Unwritten Histories blog for creating this week's packag...

At the Lawyers Guns and Money blog , I frequently find myself reading the "Erik Visits an American Grave" feature. Erik Loomis ,...

Acadiensis ( the blog one, I mean) recently offered an essay connecting the Halifax Explosion to climate change . "What, then, does th...

The pro-Spain demonstration in Barcelona October 8, 2017 Given that Canadians tend to take a certain special interest in separatist ref...

We try to keep this a history blog -- not a historian's blog about politics and current events like some others gradually become --...

In Canadian history, there's this thing called the crash of 1873 -- an economic depression that started elsewhere but created conditi...

Blog readership and production around the blogosphere slow down during the summer.  A tribute to the season, or more proof of the malevolen...

Russ Chamberlayne recently drew my attention to Five Books, an ambitiously curated site where experts are invited to choose, ah, five books...

If you are not following Borealia , you ought to be.  It's a blog on early Canada, but it's frequently ambitious in the range of su...

"She's hot," Andrea Eidinger's post on female instructors' experience with student evaluations has received more hit...

Tomorrow I will be putting together December 1's History Carnival , a selection of the best history blog posts from all over the world ...

In ten days, on 1 December 2016, I'll be hosting History Carnival , the monthly roundup of notable history-related blog posts from arou...

Liz Covart, historian History News Network links to an American Historical Association item on the notable success of Liz Covart's...

Odd conclusion of panelists at large American conference of American Academy of Religion:   The unanimous opinion of the #aarsbl15 blogg...

Active History , the lively multi-contributor HistBlog, is holding a conference at Huron College in London on October 2-4.  New Directi...

This ain't, you may have noticed, a very confessional blog.  But Eizabeth Glenn at the University of Toronto Press blog recently ask...