Christopher Moore's History News

I'm still reading Louise Dechêne's People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada, which I mentioned earlier . I read it i...

We were briefly in Montreal last week  -- colder and snowier than Toronto, but still a pleasure to visit.   While we were there, the debate ...

Quite by accident I have discovered that on Friday the CanHist podcast "Witness to Yesterday" reposted my half-hour conversation w...

History is always where you find it.  We've been on holiday on Prince Edward Island, and one day we walked the beautiful dunes trail at ...

On TwitteX,  Mark Bourrie expresses disappointment in his recent history Crosses in the  Sky being less successful than he had hoped and pa...

I've been reading in  Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power , a recent book by Pekka Hamalainen. Hamalainen is not an Americ...

An attractive thing about the history of New France is how deep back it goes, at least among Canadian subjects. Indigenous history goes way ...

At Active History , Colin Coates offers a clever essay on the death of a monarch . Just not the monarch you are thinking of:  Early Septembe...

Historians and genealogists a century from now will be grateful: the 2021 census is in progress. To mark the event, Canada's History  on...

At Canada's History , the current issue's lead story is Bill Zuk's account of how pioneer American flyer (or as they said then, ...

Boralia offers a nicely provocative question  in a recent post by Arnaud Montreuil: Was New France a society of the 'long middle ages...

At the Borealia site for early Canadian history, Olivier Guimond offers a fascinating review of  Benoît Grenier (dir.) (coll. Alain Laberge ...

  Brouage -- as the Tour helicopters saw it It looked like New France day at the Tour de France yesterday. Not that anyone on the Tour knew ...

Jumonville Glen in autumn The Champlain Society runs both an online document publishing forum, Findings/Trouvailles, and a podcast, Witn...

I've done a little work on New France. I've mostly assumed that while there were some Protestants in New France, they were most...

Props to Borealia for hosting a debate, still ongoing, about the meaning or even the existence of a "seigneurial system" in N...

Historiann does not post much anymore at her blog, more's the pity, but Professor Ann M. Little, her alter ego, is interviewed in a ...

The grave marker of Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville , now in the Museum of the City of Havana on Plaza de la Catedral. 

Active History returns from hiatus with Alan MacEachern going deep on Bering Land Bridge theory -- and, it seems, the penchant of Canadia...

Never happened. Catching up on some reading, I recently opened the June 2016 Canadian Historical Review .  One of its articles is a n...