Keith Grant
@keithsgrant.bsky.social
PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.
The Introduction to an excellent roundtable on David Armitage's classic book, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000) Andrew Fitzmaurice, "The Past and the Future of the Ideological Origins of the British Empire" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
The Past and the Future of the Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Published in History of European Ideas (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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My Alexander lecture on Joseph Brant and Indigenous antiquarianism is now online!
2026-27 W. J. Alexander Lecture Recording Now on YouTube | University College U of T
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Place d'Armes, Québec Robert W. Pilot 1949
Women's History Month: Carrie Best was co-founder of The Clarion, one of the first newspapers in Nova Scotia owned and published by Black Canadians. She used the platform to advocate for Black rights. buff.ly/ypP6Vhl
Carrie Best
Carrie Mae Best (née Prevoe), OC, ONS, LLD, human rights activist, author, journalist, publisher and broadcaster (born 4 March 1903 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia...
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The Black Loyalist Heritage Centre tells the story of the world’s largest free African population outside of Africa, in the late 18th century in Nova Scotia. blackloyalist.novascotia.ca
An interview with Edith Snook, co-author (with Lyn Bennett) of Early Modern Maritime Recipes- with a bonus: 3 tasty recipes to try out at home! buff.ly/0Vv4fL1
An ox cheek to 'satisfy a working man': Exploring early modern Maritime recipes | CBC News
Potato soup, plumb cake and spruce beer — Maritimes sure had an interesting palate in the 1700 and 1800s.
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Book launch today! My new book, "Why You Should Read More Fiction" (Johns Hopkins), is part of a wave of digital humanities work that explains why reading fiction is so important for our minds, especially right now. I hope you'll pick up a copy and spread the word. #digitalhumanities #fiction
Get a peek inside A History of Photography in Canada, Volume 2 by Martha Langford! Available now: buff.ly/G8bBVvu
#JamesBarryDiary 19/10/1876 A moderate fall day: some sunshine; water is getting low again, but still there is enough for the grist mill. Cunningham and I was in the mill both until sometime after dinner; then I went into my little shop to finish off some books. Lots of Oats coming in.
Yep. I studied history because I like people and stories, because I like the process of constructing stories from evidence. Not because it helps me think critically about consequences of a corporate policy (though it does)
We should let people dream of something besides labor
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 4w agoI don't want to make civic arguments about history. I don't want to make instrumentalist arguments about history. I want engineers to understand my discipline is rigorous too and if not I want to be able to make fun of them forever because no historian ever built a bridge that broke in the wind.
A Black-capped Chickadee waiting to see if sunflower seeds will be offered.
This was a fun lecture! Check it out if you want my take on the environmental history (#EnvHist) of the Moon.
The Syllabus@the-syllabus.bsky.social · 6d agoCosmic environments are becoming vulnerable to human activity. Focusing on the Moon, this talk argues that human societies have long interpreted and acted on the Moon in ways that reshape both knowledge and material conditions. Ft. @dagomardegroot.bsky.social at @unecgh.bsky.social buff.ly/FsVhZhq
Evening, Nipigon River Yvonne McKague Housser n.d.
The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.
Old Growth Yellow Birch, St Mary’s River, Nova Scotia. ‘Grandmother’ so humbling to stand beneath her.
A Tufted Titmouse perched in a poison sumac bush, which have beautiful red colors in the Fall.
Beautiful. Much to think reflect on here for this autumn weekend.
Plough Quarterly@plough.bsky.social · last wk.When dusk descends, when branches are unveiled, When roots reach deeper than our minds can feel And ready us for winter with strange calm, That I should see the inner tree revealed And know its beauty as the bright leaves fall And feel its truth within me as I am? @malcolmguite.bsky.social
15th October 2017 A crime novel appears to come to life for a reader with an arresting shadow on the wall. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Town & Gown'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-to... and all bookshops.
