The Colonial Bookshelf: A Project Funded by the Nova Scotia Museum

In The Colonial Bookshelf, collaborator Daniel Samson and I will begin building a web-based research guide to what was on the … More

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 … More

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 … More

Review: Sympathetic Puritans

Review of Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England, by Abram Van Engen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More