In The Colonial Bookshelf, collaborator Daniel Samson and I will begin building a web-based research guide to what was on the…
Enthusiasm and Loyalty: Emotions, Religion, and Society in British North America (PhD Dissertation, UNB, 2017)
The Enlightenment Atlantic was awash in deep feelings. People expressed the ardour of patriots, the homesickness of migrants, the fear…
Canadian History Blogging: Reflections at the Intersection of Digital Storytelling, Academic Research, and Public Outreach
Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 27.2 (2016): 1-39. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/jcha/2016-v27-n2-jcha03136/1040560ar/ This article surveys the impacts of blogging on Canadian historical…
Review: Sympathetic Puritans
Review of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England, by Abram Van Engen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015),…
Lapidus-Omohundro Early American Print Culture Fellowship 2015-2016
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture awards up to four fellowships to support advanced graduate student research…
Review: Imprinting Britain
Michael Eamon, Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). “Were I…
Introducing Borealia: A Guest Post at ActiveHistory.ca
It was a packed house in Ottawa this summer for a Canadian Historical Association session entitled, “Who Killed Pre-Confederation Canadian…
Interview: A Junto Q & A Introducing Borealia
We’re pleased to kick off this week with an interview featuring Keith Grant and Denis McKim, the scholars behind the latest addition to…
Review: Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick
David G. Bell, Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick: A Defining Conflict for Canada’s Political Culture (Halifax: Formac, 2013). In March 1786,…
Review: Patriotism and Piety
Patriotism & Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation, by Jonathan J. Den Hartog. Charlottesville: University…