Consider becoming a NiCHE member! Your support will help ensure we can continue to support all members of the environmental history community, and particularly those with interest in and connection to northern North America.

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · last wk.

VERY BIG NEWS! And a moment of transition for NiCHE. We are now offering memberships to our organization. Help us build the next era of this scholarly community. We hope to have at least 50 members by mid-November. niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

Step on up for an exciting #EnvHist #histSTM opportunity! After more than 25 years, NiCHE is offering membership! Come join the best organisation for engaged, emergent scholarship and dissemination for all things environmental history.

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · last wk.

VERY BIG NEWS! And a moment of transition for NiCHE. We are now offering memberships to our organization. Help us build the next era of this scholarly community. We hope to have at least 50 members by mid-November. niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

PiCHE Alert! "From Practice to Policy: Grand Manan’s Contested Fisheries, Environmental Knowledge, & Governance in the Bay of Fundy, 1834–1837" by Zachary Tingley & @richrray.bsky.social just dropped! PiCHE is our long-form, open-access, peer-reviewed publication! niche-canada.org/2026/10/28/f...

From Practice to Policy: Grand Manan’s Contested Fisheries, Environmental Knowledge, and Governance in the Bay of Fundy, 1834–1837

New Brunswick’s 1836 Herring Commission subordinated local ecological knowledge to commercial, settler-colonial interests, prioritizing offshore extractions over place-based conservation.

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It's here! Our next paper in Papers in Canadian History & Environment is now available. Zachary A. Tingley and Richard Yeomans offer a case study of early fisheries conservation conflict in the Bay of Fundy. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/10/28/f...

From Practice to Policy: Grand Manan’s Contested Fisheries, Environmental Knowledge, and Governance in the Bay of Fundy, 1834–1837

New Brunswick’s 1836 Herring Commission subordinated local ecological knowledge to commercial, settler-colonial interests, prioritizing offshore extractions over place-based conservation.

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Do you have a good book planned to read over your holidays? Why not one of these new books (that you can review for H-Environment)? #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #envphil #conservation #sustainability #climate #envtech #envhealth #plants 🌱🏜️🌋🏞️🛤️🐋☔🌞 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Books Available to review for H-Environment

Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

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Sean Kheraj@seankheraj.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s true. @nichecanada.bsky.social is now offering memberships. Sign up to support a great organization and help keep NiCHE going strong. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b...

In A History of Terrorism in Canada, Steve Hewitt dispels assumptions that terrorism is recent, un-Canadian, and easily understood, presenting a sustained history of terrorism and counterterrorism in Canada alongside the evolving responses of the Canadian state. Out now! buff.ly/nSbCcQJ

It’s true. @nichecanada.bsky.social is now offering memberships. Sign up to support a great organization and help keep NiCHE going strong. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/10/27/b...

Become a Member of NiCHE!

It’s the start of a new era for NiCHE! For the first time, you can become an official member of the Network in Canadian History and Environment.

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We have a new paper coming out this week in Papers in Canadian History & Environment. Be sure to get subscribed for free to get your copy first. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/piche/

Papers in Canadian History and Environment

Learn about our Papers in Canadian History and Environment (PiCHE) publication.

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"Towards an Uncharismatic Turn in Environmental History: How to Talk about the Boring and Forgotten Ones?" - @harrycroft.bsky.social introduces our new series on Uncharismatic species, emerging from a workshop at Universität Augsburg in September 2026. niche-canada.org/2026/10/09/t... #envhist

Towards an Uncharismatic Turn in Environmental History: How to Talk about the Boring and Forgotten Ones?

Six presenters from a September 2026 Universität Augsburg workshop explore how historically ignored, "uncharismatic" species shape environmental history and human records.

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Sean Kheraj and Jennifer Bonnell come onto the show to discuss their edited book Traces of The Animal Past. They delve into how environmental and animal histories differ as well as some of the key methods scholars interested in them can use. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...

S9E5: Historical Methods with Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj

In this episode we switch gears toward considering historical methods. Sean Kheraj and Jennifer Bonnell come onto the show to discuss their edited book Traces of The Animal Past and together with Clau...

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Had a great conversation about our book on @theanimalturn.bsky.social along with my co-editor, Jennifer Bonnell. Have a listen! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s9-history/s...

S9E5: Historical Methods with Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj

In this episode we switch gears toward considering historical methods. Sean Kheraj and Jennifer Bonnell come onto the show to discuss their edited book Traces of The Animal Past and together with Clau...

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Happy to see my map of the Great Epizootic featured in this @americanscientist.org article for Lee Alan Dugatkin's new book, Nary a Horse Left Standing. www.americanscientist.org/article/a-la... For the full animated version of the map, check out: arcg.is/1zaznH0

My oped in the Washington Post about "Lake America" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | ‘Lake America’ won’t happen. But Trump’s insult is foreboding.

The lake is Canadian in every way that matters. No U.S. executive order can change that.

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We've got a book for that! Interested in reading the real story of Lake Ontario? Daniel Macfarlane, professor at Western Michigan University, has written the authoritative history of the use and abuse of Lake Ontario. Read it now! #LakeOntario #researchthatmatters buff.ly/woiwybh

Congratulations to @marnieh-w.bsky.social on publication of her "History and Artificial Intelligence", title no. 37 in the @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice. Available for free download till August 6! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

History and Artificial Intelligence

Cambridge Core - Global History - History and Artificial Intelligence

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I'm finally getting around to reading @adamcrymble.bsky.social's book in preparation for teaching a digital history course again. Wonderful, thoughtful read. Thanks, Adam! academic.oup.com/illinois-sch...

Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age

Abstract. After nearly a decade of scholars trying to define digital work, this book makes the case for a need instead to understand the history of technol

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Congratulations to @torontomet.bsky.social professor Zhixi Zhuang on her Partnership Development Grant from @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca. The grant will go towards research that examines how to improve access to fair housing and inform national policy for international students in Canada. Read more:

International student housing research at TMU awarded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

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Thanks for this Mark and @nichecanada.bsky.social! I’m especially pleased that this like so many other reviews notes that Indigenous history is integrated into the overall text.

Peter A. Stevens 🇨🇦@peterastevens.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Today on @nichecanada.bsky.social, Mark McLaughlin reviews Canadians and Their Natural Environment: A History by @jamiemurton.bsky.social @oxfordunipress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/07/20/r...

Terra Nova won our @nichecanada.bsky.social prize for best book in Canadian Environmental History this year. :) niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... #envhist #cdnhist #books

Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize: The 2026 Winner

We are pleased to announce that NiCHE’s 2026 Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize has been awarded to Jack Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rutgers Univer...

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Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI)@feegiconference.bsky.social · 4mo ago

FEEGI Spotlight: Jack Bouchard is an Medieval and Early Modern Historian specializing in maritime environments, food and island geographies. His recent book explores fishermen, geographies, and food production. Check it out! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Had a chat with CBC Morning North last week about Canadian oil pipeline history. #envhist #cdnhist www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

© CBC/Radio-Canada 2026. All rights reserved.

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It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist

Our podcast, Nature's Past, hosted by @seankheraj.bsky.social, is back with a new episode after a multi-year break! Learn about @tinaadcock.bsky.social's book in "Nature’s Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North." niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n... #envhist #histsci #cdnhist

Nature's Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

This episode focuses on the legacy of the Franklin Expedition, modern Arctic exploration, and Tina Adcock’s study of southern explorers shaping northern narratives.

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Nature's Past podcast is back! On episode 77, we speak with @tinaadcock.bsky.social about her new book on the history of modern exploration of the Canadian North. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n...

Nature's Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

This episode focuses on the legacy of the Franklin Expedition, modern Arctic exploration, and Tina Adcock’s study of southern explorers shaping northern narratives.

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Thrilled to chat with @seankheraj.bsky.social about *A Cold Colonialism* on his Nature's Past podcast! The episode is now live; check it out here! #envhist #envhum #cdnhist @ubcpress.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/24/n...

Nature's Past Episode 77: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

This episode focuses on the legacy of the Franklin Expedition, modern Arctic exploration, and Tina Adcock’s study of southern explorers shaping northern narratives.

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How can we reimagine the systems that continue to fail the city’s most vulnerable people through radical approaches to care? Join @torontomet.bsky.social's Office of Social Innovation on March 24 for The Radical Labour of Care panel discussion. Learn more at torontomu.ca/transformationcafe

This film was such a privilege to make. Please take a look! #EnvHist #histSTM

NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In "The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology", @historiamagoria.bsky.social introduces a new tribute film that she recently released. niche-canada.org/2026/03/06/t... #envhist #histtech #cdnhist #genderhistory #history

The Department of History at Queen’s University is hiring for the Buchanan Postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian History. Please help us circulate this advertisement widely in your networks. www.queensu.ca/history/abou...

Excited to be back at this in far too long. Big thanks to all the LAC staff who helped me find my way this morning. #envhist #cdnhist