Two men and two women golfing in Shawbridge, Québec. June 1950. Chris Lund. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired.
The latest in blog posts, news, and podcasts from the world of Canadian history.
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Week of June 2, 2019
Environmental History
- The most commonly used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: ‘Carson,’ ‘GRE,’ and ‘Wrote.’
- Canadian Geographic celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
- Andrew Smith reviewed Graham T. Taylor’s Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880.
- You may remember me mentioning Cristina Wood’s Songs of the Ottawa project, a digital data sonification experiment on the river’s histories? It’s now available online!
- The Ottawa Citizen profiled Wood’s work here.
D-Day’s 75thAnniversary
- Lindsay Gibson shared his conflicted feelings on the subject of history education, D-Day commemoration and Remembrance Day, due to the increasing romanticization of war.
- Harry Wilson and Erika Reinhardt took a closer look at the maps that guided Canadian soldiers in Canadian Geographic.
- On the Beyond the Spectacle Blog, Kate Rennard shared the stories of Indigenous North Americans in Britain both during the war and during the D-Day invasions, including those who served with Canadian forces, like George Horse (Thunderchild First Nation).
- LAC shared the story of the of what happened to Canadians that day on the beaches of Normandy.
- This week on History Slam, Sean Graham spoke with D-Day veteran Jim Parks, who was featured in a new documentary film, “D-Day in 14 Stories.”
- CTV spoke with Jack Granatstein and Marc Milner about how historians have understood D-Day.
- CBC also spoke with Margaret MacMillan and Tim Cook about the significance of D-Day, seventy-five years later.
- CBC profiled Sonya d’Artois, a British secret agent, who later immigrated to Canada, who helped make D-Day possible.
- Find out about Project 44, an upcoming interactive map created by LAC that will enable users to trace every Canadian regiment that fought in Normandy.
- Many of the most iconic images of Canadians during D-Day were taken by Gilbert A. Milne.
- Did you know that astronomy played a huge role in the planning of D-Day?
- Turns out that the D-Day Heritage Minute was filmed in a man-made lake in Calgary. Huh.
Military History (many of these were published as part of D-Day coverage, but do not specifically deal with the invasion of Normandy)
- Find out about some of the amazing covert work done by Canadian women during WW2. The irony is that one major reason why we don’t know more about their experiences is because of how seriously they took their promise to stay silent.
- John Moses (Six Nations, Ontario) is asking for recognition for his father Russell Moses. Moses was a residential school survivor. During the war, he was placed in the Mohawk Institute, and forced to work on the school’s farm. The food produced went towards the war effort. Ian Mosby and Ry Moran were also interviewed.
- Do you know the story of the Desert Fox?
- Find out what Candace Spencer is doing to write women back into the history of WW2 at the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association museum.
- A new online audio project called the Voices of Liberation is working to preserve the stories of veterans, relatives of veterans, and anyone who has visited battle sites and cemeteries from WW2. This project was created by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
- Also on Active History this week was a new blog post by Harold Skaarup, remembering Military Chaplain, R.M. Hickey, MC.
Archaeology
- Human remains were found on a Gaspé beach, and have been confirmed to have come from an 1847 Carricks shipwreck, which carried 180 Irish passengers fleeing the Potato Famine.
- More here.
- Brienne French and Robyn Lacy have more updates from their work at Woodland Cemetery:
- French described how they raised a fallen and broken gravestone.
- Robyn Lacy described the emotional impact of restoring the graves of infants and children.
- She also published a blog post on her own blog, with more details about their work on the Hugessen monument.
- And they were also interviewed on CBC!
- With more here!
- And on the Seymour Valley Archaeology Project:
- This week students continued their work at the McKenzie Creek site.
- Found a ton of nails.
- Spoke with a reporter and had photographs taken.
- And completed the final day of excavation in the field.
- Russell Potter was back this week, discussing the mysterious graves on Beechy Island, and the questions that remain unanswered.
- A road project in central Saskatchewan has been put on hold after cultural items and archaeological sites were discovered. The Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs have called for a halt to construction, with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations supporting them. These sites appear to be the oldest set found from the region. The province failed to notify any of the local First Nations about the discovery, who found out later on thanks to two local farmers.
- A sixteenth-century French cross has been found during construction on a monument to Saint John’s Third Field Artillery Regiment. Work has halted, and the monument will need to find a new site. What an interesting contrast to the story just above…. Hmmm…. ::coughcough::racism::coughcough::
- More here.
History Education
- If you missed the “Primary Research, Story Maps, Blogs, and Historiography: Integrating Loyalist and Revolutionary Era History into the Classroom” panel at Congress, have I got good news for you! Bonnie Huskins and Wendy D. Churchill discussed the subject in a special blog post for the CHA Learning and Teaching blog.
- The Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples has released a report saying that Indigenous history must be taught in schools in order to create a better future for all of us.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- A group of volunteers are helping to restore dignity to those buried in the Wheary Graveyeard in Keswick, where many Black Loyalists from the area were laid to rest.
Indigenous History
- This year marked the 100th anniversary of the construction of the new aqueduct that isolated the Shoal Lake 40 community, and expropriated and excavated their ancestral lands (including a burial ground).
- Blackfoot Elders, including Piikani Nation Elder Jerry Potts, and a research team from the University of Lethbridge will be traveling to Europe to create detailed 3D models of non-sacred Blackfoot artifacts held in museums. Their targets are European museums that do not recognize Alberta’s repatriation claims act.
- As I mentioned in the previous roundup, the replica Haida mortuary pole created by Mungo Martin that stood at the Royal BC Museum has been brought down and will be laid to rest. Content warning: the link includes a description of the event that the mortuary pole commemorates, which is mildly graphic.
- Wendy Grant-John (councillor and former Chief of Musqueam Indian Band) shared what she has learned about how colonialism changed gender roles within Indigenous communities.
New France/British North America
- An amazing ledger was profiled by CBC this week, dating to 1834-1835, which illustrates New Brunswick’s right whale and sperm whale hunts.
- Le Soleil looked back at the history of one of Quebec’s most notorious executioners, “Black Bob,” a Black man named Robert Lane.
Political History
- This week the Heritage Winnipeg blog looked at the Specials and Strikers Riot.
- Mary Horodyski shared the stories of women during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- Anne-Michèle Lajoie published a guest post on the Canadian Network of Humanitarian History blog, about working with primary sources and interviewing folks regarding the Montreal international activist organization, “Alternatives.”
- LAC gave us a behind the scenes look at a new exhibit on how Canadian prime ministers have been depicted by photographers.
Social History
- A missing register book from the St. James Anglican Cemetery in Winnipeg has just been found.The registry contains information about thousands of stillborn infants or miscarried fetuses, who were buried in unmarked graves. Content warning: discussion of stillborn infants and miscarried fetuses.
- Anyone who loved Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill needs to read this oral history of the making of this record.
- Because some basketball stuff has been going on lately ;), Global News looked back at the history of basketball in Canada.
- It’s the end of an era.
Local History
- Lots of new entries from Historic Nova Scotia this week, including:
- The City of Vancouver Archives blog has posted the Paralympic Torch Relay photographs online.
- Retroactive had a guest post this week by Ron Kelland on the municipal heritage of Lethbridge.
- Whistorical shared how McKeever’s General Store got its name.
- Neil Whaley was a guest blogger on the Vancouver As It Was blog, and discussed the proposed Connaught Beach Club.
- Find out how small-town Saskatchewan hotels served beer in the early 1900s.
- Instantanés looked back at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s visit to Ottawa in 1969.
Digital and Public History
- When Kings Landing opens for a new season, it will include a new Wolastoqiyik exhibit, developed in partnership with the Mi’kmaq-Wolastoqey Centre at UNB.
- The Landscapes of Injustice Program has released a collection of primary source material from their research database.This is a preview of the full database what will launch in 2021. Super exciting!
- This week the UBC Digitizer’s blog shared images of the oldest photographs in their collections.
- I’m not sure if this counts as historical, but it sure is funny.
- This week The Tyee looked back at the history of Vancouver’s École Bilingue, formerly known as Cecil Rhodes School, and how Rhodes’ name continued to dominate the playground. The school is deciding whether it needs to address this issue. Paige Raibmon and Rima Wilkes were both interviewed for this piece.
- Scroll down to next week to find out what happened. Oooh, the suspense!
- Camille Robert appeared on two news programs recently:
- In this one on climate activist Greta Thunberg, she spoke on the history environmental and anti-capitalism social movements.
- And in this one, she spoke on the history of the feminist movement’s fight for social recognition of the value of domestic work.
Doing History
- The Royal BC Museum and the Haida Gwaii Museum Kay Llnagaay have just published an Indigenous Repatriation Handbook.
- Adele Perry spoke with CBC’s The House on why it is a problem when Commons committees strike records.This was in reference to the striking of an MP’s comments when he quoted the manifesto of the New Zealand mosque shooter. Content warning: brief description of what happened in the Commons justice Committee.
- Steven Schwinghamer added his thoughts here.
- John Rollo rescued some wonderful historical document from the Windsor Public Library that were accidentally thrown out. Content warning: the article seems bizarrely fixed on the fact that Rollo is homeless.
- This week the Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto blog looked at why it is almost impossible to find “hidden treasures” in the archives, though it does happen on occasion.
- Hamilton Public Library has joined the Internet Archive’s Open Libraries project, so now tons of historical books, magazines, and Eaton’s catalogues are now available online! Thanks to Gail Dever for this scoop!
- Jessica Parr has put together a wonderful guide for Digital Management for historians!
- Find out about some of the most recent acquisitions by BAnQ, including the fonds of Lise Watier.
- This is a really important issue: A Le Journal de Montreal investigation revealed that Alexis Joveneau of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate abused children, adolescents, and adults over the course of many years. However, the Alexis Joveneau fonds at BAnQ contains hundreds of digitized images, including several of his Innu victims. While the archives has placed a warning on this fonds, victims like Pierette Mestenapéo (Innu) are asking why these images remain online.
Miscellaneous
- This week the Dartmouth Heritage Museum looked back at the first known photograph made in North America, produced in Halifax in 1839.
- Did you know a Canadian woman, June Lindsey, paved the way for James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin?
- The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for geologist William Stewart Herron.
Podcasts
- Histoire Engagée posted a podcast produced by Annick Desmarais, on the real life history behind the popular novel series, Filles de Caleb, depicting rural life at the turn of the last century, particularly in terms of rural schools.
- Eve Lazarus has released episode seven of her Blood, Sweat, and Fear podcast. This week’s episode is about two missing police officers believed murdered, and how the investigation focused on Canford Indian band. Content warning: descriptions of violence, historical racism.
- Kevin Allen and the Calgary Gay History Project were featured on the seventh episode ofThe Calgarian podcast.
- This week on the Ben Franklin’s World Podcast, Liz Covart spoke with Molly Warsh about her book, American Baroque: Pearls and the Nature of Empire, 1492-1700.
- The Manitoba Food History podcast, Preserves, launched episode five, on the marketing of snacks in Canada. Yum.
- Over on the Witness to Yesterday podcast, Patrice Dutil spoke with Robert Lewish about his book, Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill.
- In honour of Pride Month, the Secret Life of Canada podcast gave a shout-out the Gay Asians of Toronto organization, one of the first to advocate for LGTQ+ folks of colour, and founding member Richard Fung.
- I’ve missed several recent Juno Beach and Beyond podcasts! I’m sorry!
- Check out this interview with the Canadian Research and Mapping Association about Project 44, mentioned above.
- They also posted an episode sharing the stories of veterans of D-Day in their own words.
Calls for Papers
- The Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française is seeking submissions for their next “Chronique d’archives” section. Submissions are due August 15th.
- The African American Intellectual History Society has issued a CFP for their upcoming conference on the Black Radical Tradition. Paper and panel submissions will be accepted between August 1 and October 15.
Week of June 9, 2019
Environmental History
- The most commonly used words in #envhist last week, according to Jessica DeWitt, were: ‘Harvard,’ ‘Fossils,’ and ‘Climate.’
- This year’s CHESS involved rafting on the Fraser River. Tina Loo published a beautiful twitter/photo essay about the journey, followed a couple of days later by another beautiful twitter/photo essay by Hereward Longley.
- Justin Fisher has published the latest recap from the NICHE New Scholars Energy History virtual meeting!
- Find out about the latest work being done at the Mountain Legacy Project, regarding Mount Robson and Mount Assiniboine.
- Sean Kheraj shared some cool pipeline protest history on Twitter!
- Stephanie Bellissimo published a great blog post about the history of railway gardening in Canada.
- Turns out we only have ourselves to blame for the whole squirrel issue. Sigh.
- CBC spoke with survivors of wildfires from previous decades about the impact the fires had on their lives.
Military History
- The Doing Our Bit blog remembered WW1 soldier, Private Marc Edward Berton.
- The piece was in response to this earlier news article, on the Belgian man who was searching for Berton’s family, after “adopting” the grave though the “Adopt a US Tommy” program.
- The South Peace Regional Archives remembered WW1 soldier, Private John Kneafsey.
- As part of the ongoing series on Active History in collaboration with the Juno Beach Centre, Stephen A. Bourque explained the Allied aerial bombardment during D-Day.
- Two CBC News WW2 wartime correspondents, Matthew Halton and Peter Stursberg, have been inducted into the CBC News Hall of Fame.
- This is a really neat story about a portrait of Canadian war bride, Cathryne Armstrong, and the artist’s family’s search for her identity.
Archaeology
- Robyn Lacy was back with a look back at week 3 of her work at the Woodland Cemetery.
- Over on the Woodland Cemetery blog, she described their work on the Hugessen Monument, including the history of the Hugessen family, and the surprises they uncovered.
- And Brienne French followed up with a blog post discussing alternative setting methods for gravestones.
- Robert Wilkins described his recent visit to the archaeological investigations ongoing at St. Antoine Cemetery in Montreal.
- Relating to the cultural items and archaeological sites discovered in central Saskatchewan last week that I mentioned above, the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations has signed a memorandum of understanding with the owners of the farmlands where the items were found, Mitzi and Jim Gilroy.
- CBC also spoke with Kisha Supernant (Métis) about the incident, and how Saskatchewan’s laws on ancient artifacts perpetuate colonization.
- Here are the latest updates from the Seymour Valley Archaeology project:
History Education
- While not specifically Canadian, this “Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection” from the National History Centre contains lots of material for individuals who teach Canadian history.
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration History
- You may remember that I mentioned Queen’s University’s apology to Black medical students who were discriminated against. Well, the university announced this year the creation of a fund for Black medical students, sent letters of apologies to families of individuals affected, and outlined some of the curricular content and exhibits they are planning for the future.
- Matthew Wangler was back with part two of his series on the history of Doukhobors in Alberta over the Retroactive blog.
- Henry Yu spoke with NPR about the impact of Chinese immigrants on Vancouver.
- Another patented Justin Trudeau apology coming our way, this time for the treatment of Italians who were mistreated during WW1.
Genocide and the MMIWG Final Report
- In response to the release of the final report from the Commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Active History published two blog posts reflecting on genocide and traditional narratives of Canadian history.
- First Alvin Finkel discussed the fact that, upon the release of the final report, the one thing that captured the most public attention was the use of the term “genocide.” I don’t totally agree with his assessment of the history of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada, but he does make some good points about the political use of the term. So I would approach this one with caution.
- Next, Active History reprinted Rob Innes’ fantastic piece on historians and how they approach the subject of Indigenous genocide in Saskatchewan, previously published in Shekon Neechie.
- And finally, David Webster explored responses to the use of the term “genocide” in the Canadian media, and why Canadians find it so hard to use this word to describe their own histories.
- Cindy Blackstock (Gitxsan) retweeted some of her previous entries in a new learning series for Canadians entitled “Is It Genocide?”
- Ian Mosby published a devastating critique in response to J.R. Miller’s recent piece on why the report shouldn’t have used the term “genocide.”
- Krystal Raven went to an event with the MMIWG Inquiry commissioners, and shared some of the points that the commissioners shared.
- And Rhoda Hassman provided her perspective on debates about the term “genocide” here.
Indigenous History
- Coll Thrush published a new blog post on Beyond the Spectacle, including a list of recent books on the subject of Indigenous history in North America.
- A Federal judge ruled that Canada violated the terms of Treaty 7 when drawing reserve boundaries for the Blood Tribe in 1877. Funny how the Canadian legal system keeps finding that the Canadian government violated its own laws in their dealing with Indigenous peoples….
- Sarah Bolvin reviewed Sheldon Krasowki’s No Surrender: The Land Remains Indigenous for Rabble.ca.
- In honour of National Indigenous History Month, McGill-Queen’s University Press published a list of some of their current and forthcoming books on the subject.
- Sema:th First Nation Chief Dalton Silver is calling on the government to return and protect the 65 hectare property known as Lightening Rock to the Sema:th people. The area has deep cultural and spiritual significance to the Sema:th people. Content warning: mentions of smallpox epidemic, mis-spelling Stó:lō.
- After a seagull dropped a stone in front of a friend of his in Sooke, Daniel Marshall made an amazing archaeological discovery that is providing important information on Indigenous history in the area between 2,000 and 4,000 years ago.
Political History
- Check out what the archives tell us about how Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney handled relations with China after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- There were several new pieces on the Winnipeg General Strike this week.
- CBC looked at the trials and deportations of the strike leaders, and what happened afterwards.
- Heritage Winnipeg published a new blog post on the raids and arrests that followed the strike.
- Blake Brown looked back at the history of gun control legislation under the Progressive Conservatives.
Social History
- LAC published another new Flickr album this week with images of living rooms. See the images yourself here.
- Sophie Hicks premiered a new series on Active History, about family, community, and food history. Hicks started it off by discussing using recipes as tools for constructing historical narratives.
- Marc-Antoine Belzille published a new piece on Histoire Engagée about the evolution of movie theatres and cinematic experiences in Canada between 1905 and 1940.
- The Toronto Public Library shared some images from previous Stanley Cup games from their collections. Go HABS! Ahem.
- Rebecca Sullivan commented on a cool timeline with City News about the history of Canadian laws around birth control and abortion. I just wish they had used a little more gender neutral language.
- Daniel Samson published a new blog post this week about a surprising find he made in the library of J.B. McLachlan.
Local History
- Ben Bradley shared this amazing video of a 1972 Speedway Park Rock festival in Edmonton.
- Historic Nova Scotia published all the new entries this week, including:
- Yarmouth County Museum and Archives
- Université Sainte-Anne and the Centre Acadien
- The Lake Charlotte Area Heritage Society and the Eastern Shore Archives
- Alberta Lee on Victory Day over Japan in 1945
- The Nova Scotia Museum on Dr. Maria Louisa Angwin
- Lisette Gaudet and the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives on the Yarmouth Post Office and Postal Service.
- Andria Hill-Lehr and the Wolfville Historical Society on Mona Parsons.
- The Toronto Public Library published several features on local history this week, including:
- A short history of Cornwall
- A guide to researching the history of your house in Toronto
- And shared five interesting items on basketball history from their collection.
- UBC shared images this week featuring UBC Library Buildings.
- Whistorical looked at the history of Whistler’s early mountain bike shops.
- You may need to be from the Maritimes or know a lot about them to see why this is funny.
- Do you know the history of the screech-in?
- A researcher with the Craft Council and Heritage Newfoundland is looking for people to talk to about her search for the history of the Craft Council’s building, 275 Duckworth Street.
- And someone else is looking for folks to interview on the old Hant’s Habour post office.
- Holy Vancouver hats.
- Heritage Winnipeg profiled the Thomson and Pope Building this week.
Digital and Public History
- 122 years of Victoria’s British Colonist is now available online!
- The Stellarton Museum of Industry is launching a new database on the 2500 men who died in Nova Scotia coal mines from 1873 to 1992. Which is amazing.
- Barkerville has just completed a $1.1 million project to protect the historic site from wildfires, which are becoming a bigger problem here in BC every year.
- Radio-Canada profiled a new digital history project on the historic French quarter of Calgary, Rouleaville.
- Check out how the Kamloops Museum is showcasing the area’s history using geographical survey photographs.
- There is a brand new community stories from the Virtual Museum of Canada by the Qualicum Beach Museum. The subject is the history of paleontology on Vancouver Island.
- And I seem to have missed this one, by the Beaulne Museum, on “Created in Coaticook: One Town’s Story of Ingenuity and Creativity.”
- A new park is opening in Cape Breton, dedicated to all those who died at an explosion at the No. 26 Colliery in Glace Bay in 1979.
- This week, SFU announced that it would be removing a 19-metre long mural created by Charles Comfort in 1951, entitled “British Columbia Pageant.”It has been removed following a series of protests by Indigenous community members, students, and faculty members.
- Sean Carleton provided commentary here.
- Drumroll please…… L’Ecole Bilingue voted to cover up the sign, and are debating its ultimate fate.
- Mount Allison University Archives launched a new website this week, looking at the history of Acadians at the institution. Check it out yourself here.
- Canadiana announced that beginning on August 12, 2019, Early Canadian Online will be fully integrated with Canadiana Online through a single access portal.
- Again, not specifically Canadian, but Liz Covart tweeted a presentation by Jessica Parr on digital management for historians.
- This is related to Parr’s guide, mentioned above.
- Find out about the cool digital history projects going on at the University of Lethbridge, specifically for elementary history education.
- There is a new app called “Whose Land,” showing the history and traditional territories of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Included are videos of Indigenous folks acknowledging their traditional territories.
Doing History
- Emily Lonie shared the highlights of her recent experience at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference over on her blog.
- Find out why the widow of Canadian filmmaker George A. Romero, Suzanne Desrocher-Romero, donated his archives to the University of Pittsburg.
- BAnQ has digitized three volumes of Canadian ex-libris (bookplates) from the Fauteux collection.
- This week on Unwritten Histories, I shared my reflections on the CHA 2019 Annual Meeting.
- WTH CSIS???
Miscellaneous
- Steve Hewitt published a guest post with the University of Toronto Press Journals blog, on the life and death of failed terrorist, Paul Joseph Chartier. Content warning: an image of a newspaper front page from 1966 showing blood, descriptions of violence, descriptions of terrorism.
- Over on the Acadiensis blog this week, Carole Gerson examined how L.M. Montgomery portrayed Indigenous peoples in her publications. Content warning: historical terms that refer to Indigenous folks which are now considered racist.
- There were several posts this week on the first transatlantic flight
- Archival Moments posted a blog about the trial trip of the Vickers Vimy bi-plane
- And another on a test flight by the Handley Page Company Group.
- And another on the St. John’s woman who made the mailbag on board.
- CBC covered the official flight, and the British pilots who actually flew the plane, John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown.
- They also published a neat feature on Brown’s letters to historian Robert Holland Tait, now held at Memorial University,
- The latest biography from The Dictionary of Canadian Biography is for civil engineer Alexandre Fraser.
- You may remember that in a previous roundup, I mentioned that Leonard Cohen’s love letters to Marianne Ihlen were up for auction. They just sold for a lot of money…
- Laphams
Podcasts
- The latest History at Work podcast episode featured an interview with Parks Canada conservator, Danny Doyle.
- This week on the Canadian Geographic podcast, host David McGuffin spoke with Charlotte Gray.
- Canadian music producer Mark Howard talked with Q about his memories working with a number of prominent artists.
- In the latest Juno Beach and Beyond podcast, Alex Fitzgerald-Black spoke with Amanda Shepherd, the author of I’m a Survivor, Not a Victim: The Experiences of Normandy Veteran George Carvell.
Wow. I haven’t done one of these multi-week roundups in a while. This was an epic one. I hope you enjoyed this week’s Canadian history roundup. If you did, please consider sharing it on the social media platform of your choice. And don’t forget to check back on Tuesday for a brand new Historians’ Histories! See you then!
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