Im 1991, these country legends were asked what they would want the United States to fix. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson answered:

I’m gonna do it, not even packing pants.

muse.jhu.edu/issue/49488 Free for Two Weeks ! Our Latest Issue « Mixed Signals » all things information but no AI authorship ! @zeithistoriker @iheid_history @kenlipartito

On the pacifist Christians whom Tolstoy loved and funded to move to Canada-and their situation today nytimes.com/2023/06/04/wor…

In honor of Eric Hobsbawm's 106th birthday today, we have a new piece on the Verso Books Blog: Hobsbawm's 1978 essay on the Communist Party Historians' Group. versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

Man how are they not getting sued into insolvency? washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

never change, comrades

My favourite Secret Canada story of the series. Last fall, Tom Cardoso and I put out a call: if you have stories about Canada's broken freedom of information regime, we want to hear from you. The loudest, largest group to reply: FURIOUS HISTORIANS theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Read Mack Penner 's (from McMaster University) CHR 104.3 article that explores how neoliberal ideas facilitated Tom Flanagan's defense of settler colonialism in Canadian political science: bit.ly/chr1043b #neoliberalism #settlercolonialism #TomFlanagan #intellectualhistory

Learn about the "paradox of #polycrisis" in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and its historiographical implications in this newly published JH 58.2/3 research by Mack Penner (Mack Penner McMaster University) bit.ly/JH5823b #capitalism

"Smith is concerned that federal research funding is biased toward certain kinds of scholarship and opinion because she has been talking to “some of our academics.” This raises the question of with whom, exactly, Smith has been conversing." activehistory.ca/blog/2024/05/0…

Thanks to ActiveHistory.ca for having me to write up some notes on the thinking behind Bill 18, which I think is a “move on the part of an emboldened right-wing in Alberta to put a thumb on its own side of the academic scale.” activehistory.ca/blog/2024/05/0…

The Department of History & Religion is hiring a term instructor with a background in Canadian & European history! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/7510

"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind." Mack Penner's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…