Make sure you head on over to Active History today to find out about the new open-access edited collection ebook that Krista McCracken and I just released today! We’re super excited about it, and we hope that you love it as much as we do!
Author: Andrea Eidinger (Page 6 of 38)
Special thanks to Krista McCracken, Jessica Knapp, Maddie Knickerbocker, and Lee Blanding for helping me develop the ideas in this blog post.
This week marks the third anniversary of the creation of Unwritten Histories! In past years, we’ve celebrated in a couple of different ways. For our first anniversary, we took at a look at the first year of Unwritten Histories by the numbers. For our second anniversary, we profiled some amazing women-identified graduate students and recent graduates working across the country. I have to admit, I’ve been struggling to figure out what to do this year. But in light of recent events at the NCPH and in the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program at Yale, and after having some long talks with my amazing friends, I’ve decided to take this opportunity to imagine what my ideal academic world would look like. Since this is a blog post, and you know that I am interested in practical solutions, I’ve decided to focus on three qualities that I think my ideal academic world would embrace: kindness, bravery, and curiosity. Below I talk about each one of these in turn, and offer some suggestions about how we can bring these three qualities in our life today. While change doesn’t happen overnight, small interventions can make a big difference, and
Snack bars at La Ronde with daffodils in foreground. May 1967. Credit: Library and Archives Canada / Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition / e011179978.
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Editor’s note: This is the second post in an occasional series entitled “Unearthed,” edited by Heather Green and co-sponsored by Unwritten Histories, in which emerging environmental historians in Canada discuss what brought them to the field, why they value environmental history, and how it connects with life outside of academia.
Ian J. Jesse is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Maine. His research explores the varied connections between wild animals and rural communities in the Northeast. He received 2017-2018 Fulbright Doctoral Student Fellowship and currently holds a University of Maine Canadian-American Center Fellowship.
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series where, each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
Warning: As some of you may already know, Erudit has been down for the last week. Since several of the journal articles I needed were only available through this service, I was not able to include them in this month’s Best New Articles. So this is a partial list, and I will include the missing issues next month.
This month I read articles from:
- Canadian Journal of Native Studies 28 no. 1 (2018)
- Journal of Canadian Studies 53, no. 1 (Winter 2019)
- Canadian Historical Review 100 no. 1 (March 2019)
- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 55, no. 2 (2017)
- Acadiensis 47, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2018)
- Quebec Studies 66 (2018)
- Individual articles
Here are my favourites:
Macoun Club, Ottawa – David Smiley putting a crayfish on Jennifer Medd’s neck. March 22, 1963. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton. Library and Archives Canada
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From top left, counterclockwise: Calendula, pansies, feverfew, morning glory, morning glory, pea flower, and another variety of calendula.
One of my favourite things about summer is gardening. Watching tiny little seeds grow into four to five foot tall tomato plants out on my deck is something akin to magic, and even though I know that I would never be able to feed myself from our tiny pot garden in a million years, it gives us a certain feeling of independence; it cuts down our produce bills, we can make salads all summer long by simply going out to the garden and picking out what we need, and it tastes so much better.
Both my spouse and I practice heritage gardening – not so much by choice, but because it’s all we really know. I learned how to garden from my grandmother, while my spouse learned most of what he knows about gardening from his place of work, the Fortress of Louisbourg, where he works in the department of animals and gardens. The Fortress only allows heritage breeds of animals and plants, along with historical methods of gardening, while my grandmother never really taught me how to garden with pesticides or manufactured fertilizers, so between us we manage to produce an all-natural, organic, heritage pot garden. It could easily be replicated on a larger scale, say, in raised beds or in a community garden if you don’t have the space or your own land or yard, but we live in an apartment with a 100-squre foot patio, so a pot garden is pretty much our only option.
Woman dressed as a nineteenth century dairy farmer pours cream into a butter churn while a young boy watches as represented in the NFB production on the Canadian dairy industry. August 1950. Gar Lunney. Credit: Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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I got a request to republish my recent Twitter thread here on the blog! Voila! I’ll do a revised and expanded version in a few weeks.
I know that lots of folks are getting academic rejections this week. As a hardened reject-ee, I just wanted to pass on some advice, for what it’s worth.