First: We need to stop covering the Canadian wildfires in relation to the US without also highlighting 1) the sustained assault POTUS has waged on environmental protection, and 2) that the climate crisis is borderless. The US is more than culpable in this disaster.

Trump exploring additional tariffs on Canada for wildfire smoke impacts in US, White House official says – US politics live

New tariffs announced Monday would take effect in 30 days unless Canada removes barriers on US auto, alcohol and dairy products

theguardian.com

On First View!

Nathan Cardon@ncardon.bsky.social · 3w ago

My new article in @modamhist.bsky.social is out now in first view and open access and is a preview of chapter 6 of the 'The World Awheel' (@columbiaup.bsky.social). It's a story of American mobility, femininity, and power in the spaces of European empires. doi.org/10.1017/mah....

"Hong Kong History Academy" Lecture 7 Urban Development and Land Market in Pre-War Hong Kong Prof Cecilia Chu The Chinese University of Hong Kong Session One: Bubonic Plague 1894 and Urban Renewal Watch at: youtu.be/6JYeUU8WbJs

"Hong Kong History Academy" Lecture 7 | Session One | Bubonic Plague 1894 and Urban Renewal

YouTube video by Hong Kong History Centre

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This is a fantastic visualization of colonial administrative mobilities!

Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · last mo.

Here is the new interactive version: jimclifford.ca/col_matching...

Saddened today by the passing of Carlo Ginzburg, whose contributions to micro-history resonated so strongly with generations of historians, myself included.

Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Just back from Honolulu where I spent a fantastic 2 weeks at the state archive researching the Chinese community’s thoughts on US annexation for the next book project.

Welcome to Charlottetown! Bienvenue à Charlottetown! #CHASHC2026

Colin Coates@ccoates.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Charlottetown welcomes the CHA for its annual conference | Charlottetown souhaite la bienvenue à la Société historique du Canada. #chapei2026 @cndhistassoc.bsky.social

This is essentially the bare minimum concession from an administration that has redacted Trans people within the historical narrative. Would be nice to see the NPS grow a spine and honour the past rather than contribute to its erasure.

Trump administration agrees to keep flying Pride flag at Stonewall monument

US government reverses course on removing LGBTQ+ Pride flag from New York monument after efforts from advocates

theguardian.com

Thrilled to see this fine article on the Girl Guide movement in late colonial HK by Tracy Leung, @hongkonghistory.bsky.social PhD researcher, published by the Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From ‘To Serve Hong Kong’ to ‘To be True to My Country’: The Girl Guide Movement in Late Colonial Hong Kong, 1950s–1997

Using unexamined Girl Guide publications, government papers and oral history testimonies, this article examines how the role of the Girl Guide movement changed throughout late colonial Hong Kong. I...

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A ceasefire changes nothing. It’s up to Americans to take whatever action necessary to teach their president that genocide is not a bargaining chip.

If you're at all interested in spatial history, you're missing out if you haven't checked out my colleague @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social's work with the GeoREACH lab.

Acadiensis@acadiensis.bsky.social · 4mo ago

On the blog ... Joshua MacFadyen, Abigail Fenton, and Fabian Wegner's "Motor Lodges, Mourners, and Upward Mobility: An Introduction to the Paul Sharpe Aerial Photograph Collection, 1947-1952" provides an intro to the Paul Sharpe aerial photo collection: acadiensis.wordpress...

AAS bound this morning and off to a rocky start, as our plane was struck by lightning. Hopefully this is auspicious?

Darius Wainwright providing historical context for the U.S.'s new confrontational policy towards Iran.

History at Bristol@uobrishistory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hot off the press: New article by our Darius Wainwright on Trump’s actions in Iran: theconversation.com/trumps-appro...

Hey America, how’s that Board of Peace working out?

Isn't the major thesis of the John Adams HBO special that snowball fights are a gateway drug to open rebellion against a monarch?

a man in a wig and gown is in a courtroom with a caption that says tvresidence

ALT: a man in a wig and gown is in a courtroom with a caption that says tvresidence

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We're hosting the CHA this year at UPEI in June. It's going to be a blast. It overlaps with the ACSC and the CCHA. Our wee campus is about the become the historical profession's version of a clown car. I canvased hard locally to have this postcard from a family trip c.2001 on the programme cover.

Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada@cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The CHA's annual meeting program is now online! We are so excited, and hope to see you in Charlottetown in June. Stay tuned - registration opens next week. #cdnhist

Please circulate! The UPEI history department will be hiring for a TT position in Canadian and Atlantic history. See the attached post for more information. Come work with us in Charlottetown! The closing date is 13 March 2026. Queries and applications should be directed to Dr. Richard Raiswell.

'We understand Hong Kong as a subject providing a wide range of opportunities, as a city and a territory with a distinctive past that has never been more alive.' Excellent write up on the @hongkonghistory.bsky.social in the latest @iias.bsky.social newsletter For more pp.38-40 👉 brnw.ch/21wZEyV

Hoping we remain consistent in our plans and don’t capitulate. At its base, such a threat vindicates Carney’s Davos speech.

Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on Canada over China deal

Donald Trump's threat comes after Canada reached deal with China last week on trade of agriproducts, electric vehicles.

aljazeera.com

Trying to get my students to read as many different news sources about current events as possible, but I have to admit that the @theguardian.com has struck just the most satisfying chord of sassy.

I don't think I've ever heard anything more moronic and dangerous - and I used to have a day calendar of Bush-isms. Are the Americans that voted for this still proud of what they've done?

‘I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace,’ says Trump amid Greenland threats | First Thing

Donald Trump links Greenland seizure threats to Nobel snub in letter to Norway’s prime minister. Plus, unseen home video of Martin Luther King Jr

theguardian.com

For Trump to presume that this will be remembered as anything other than deeply pathetic within the historical record is a masterclass in delusion.

Alan Lester@alanlester.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What kind of man do you have to be to beam with pleasure and pride at taking someone else’s award? And what kind of woman do you have to be to sacrifice your award for the sake of your country? www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."

Some Mapping Historical Hong Kong updates: we've been continuing to share data with the HK Spatial History team at HKBU. Good level of fidelity between the two databases, which bodes well for future data sharing. Their extensive roadmap is also going to greatly speed up our work on earlier decades.

One of my favourite outputs so far from the Hong Kong Spatial History Project. The product of a partnership between Kwong Chi Man's team at HK Baptist University and the archivists at the Hong Kong Public Records Office.

Having been reading quite a bit on the topic for an article I'm writing on amateurs in the U.S. consular and diplomatic branches... No. It's not a good thing.

Not sure which is more inconceivable: that Salem's city seal is what it is even today or that the historian defending it (or the article in fact) fails to mention the word "opium" even once, even as the family who traded it (Peabodys) commissioned the seal! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/27/m...

Cultural tribute or Asian stereotype? Salem roiled by dispute over city seal. - The Boston Globe

To one side, the seal contains an anachronistic, racial caricature of a 19th-century Asian merchant. To the other, it honors a progressive, cross-cultural commerce that benefited peoples a world apart...

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The articles for "Who Belongs in the Empire" have now been published together as a special issue in Itinerario alongside the highly relevant special issue "Hidden Economies of Slavery." Check out both open-access collections now!

The studentship I did with the then HKHP was one of the most generous and supportive pathways through a PhD I could have imagined. Can't recommend this opportunity enough.

Hong Kong History Centre@hongkonghistory.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hong Kong History Centre Studentship 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Dept of Hist, University of Bristol 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: UK and International (including EU) 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: Tuition Fees and stipend 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: Sep 26 – Sep 30 (full-time) Details: www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/17/h...

Legally speaking, if the US signs a treaty with another country, and then, during a conflict in which they aren’t belligerents, steals said treaty from said country. Is said country still required to honour the terms of it?