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Alan MacEachern

@alanmaceachern.bsky.social
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Researcher, writer, & teacher of stuff Canadian, historical, & environmental. www.mqup.ca/content/search?type%5B%…

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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For the anniversary of Silent Spring, published on this day in 1962. This Peanuts cartoon is from February 1963. #envhist @carsoncenter.bsky.social
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To mark the start of Truth and Reconciliation Week, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social, Gord Hill, and I are excited to share some big news: In January 2027, we will be releasing "A Knock On the Door: A Comic Book History of Residential Schools": uofmpress.ca/books/a-knoc...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
According to this moment's version of me. A few perfect. A few imperfect but somehow more perfect for it. Breaking Bad, oddly grudgingly. And had to give a kdrama & an offbeat Aussie comedy some love.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many moving parts & last-minute scrambling to get this post up in time for Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Ark's opening. Just like the Ark's opening itself! #princeedwardisland #pei #envhist #cdnhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many moving parts & last-minute scrambling to get this post up in time for Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Ark's opening. Just like the Ark's opening itself! #princeedwardisland #pei #envhist #cdnhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the things we do in this post is annotate & embed the transcript of a 1976 talk by Amory Lovins. Super simple to do - & pretty useful, I think. Lots of potential applications.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is so sad. My heart goes out to Susan, Jordi, & everyone who loved Karen. She was such a warm & wise mentor to so many, including me. www.queensu.ca/devs/news/re...
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Remembering Dr. Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita | Department of Global Development Studies
Dear DEVS commmunity,It is with great sadness that we share the following obituary of our colleague Professor Emerita Dr. Karen Dubinsky. Karen was a dynamic researcher and pedagogical innovator. Her ...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey! Congratulations to @adeleperry.bsky.social on receiving the JB Tyrrell Historical Medal for outstanding work in the history of Canada.🍁 rsc-src.ca/en/about/pub... #cdnhist
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The Royal Society of Canada Announces its 2026 Award Winners | The Royal Society of Canada
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Last day to get your nominations in to @alanmaceachern.bsky.social for a series on Commemorating Canadian Environmental History Describe your topic and discuss its impacts, environmental and otherwise, and how it meets the HSMBC criteria niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
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A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is fun: @joshmacfadyen.bsky.social & I have assembled a 3-parter for @nichecanada.bsky.social about the environmental turn on #PEI in 1976. Today, pt. 1 launched: niche-canada.org/2026/09/14/p... Wed, pt.2 on Energy Days. Fri, pt.3 on the opening of the Ark, 50 yrs ago this weekend.
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PEI & The Spirit of ‘76 - pt.1
Spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, PEI Premier Alex Campbell pivoted the province toward renewable energy and resource self-sufficiency.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As beautiful a first teaching day as my very first teaching day at Western U, 25 years ago.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Realizing that I'm working simultaneously on 4 small, completely distinct writing projects at the moment. Is that efficient? No. Will any of them lead to a book? No. But are they fun? Yes. Weird? A couple.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this post, I put out a call for #envhist people, places, or events that Canada should be commemorating. Submit yours: there's a $200 prize at stake. Deadline 14 Sept. Details in post.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yesterday, I had a 10-minute touch-up laser surgery 5 years after cataract surgery & I wish I could show you just how amazingly good my vision is. I’m going to spend all day today just looking at things.
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Good-faith dialogue with people who are critically engaging with these systems is now the best way for those who refuse them to stay informed about what the technology can actually do.” My new post for @activehist.bsky.social activehistory.ca/blog/2026/09...
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How Do We Talk about LLMs?
It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all dealing with the rep…
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#PEI has been there. Or rather, not been there.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trapped in bed this morning. Oh well.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A NiCE piece for historians talking to the media. niche-canada.org/2026/09/05/p...
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Pitching, Pitfalls, Soundbites and Historians: Lessons from the Lake Ontario Naming Dispute
After a controversial presidential proposal regarding Lake Ontario, historian Dan Macfarlane gained sudden media attention, sharing advice on handling press.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In this post, I put out a call for #envhist people, places, or events that Canada should be commemorating. Submit yours: there's a $200 prize at stake. Deadline 14 Sept. Details in post.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Thunder Bay today & revisited my home for 2 PhD years: the CCGS Alexander Henry icebreaker.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2035-36: the first year Canadian universities employ more tenured/TT professors over the age of 80 than under the age of 35.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#His2189 @westernuhistory.bsky.social
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 2019, the Historic Sites & Monuments Bd of Canada identified 4 strategic priorities for designation. How many of each have been designated since then? 🔵diversity: 33 🔵Indigenous peoples: 14 🔵Can & the world: 9 🔵environmental history: 1 Ouch. niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
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A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just an American chemical rep, in the wake of Silent Spring, explaining to a Canadian Parliamentary cttee in 1963 why we couldn't give up on pesticides like DDT: we needed to feed the impending population explosion ...that would, uh, result in Doomsday on 13 Nov 2026. Good times. #cdnhist #envhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 2019, the Historic Sites & Monuments Bd of Canada identified 4 strategic priorities for designation. How many of each have been designated since then? 🔵diversity: 33 🔵Indigenous peoples: 14 🔵Can & the world: 9 🔵environmental history: 1 Ouch. niche-canada.org/2026/08/18/a... #envhist #cdnhist
niche-canada.org
A Failure to Commemorate - a call for submissions
Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Help settle an argument: Bad Grandpa or Bad Grade Point Average?
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just realized that Doomsday is 100 days away! If the prediction turns out not to be accurate, I'll write about it after. (Because if I publish something in advance & it's accurate, what's the point?) #envhist #envhum
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Roadside raspberries, brought to you by #PEI & summer.
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Rebecca Beausaert (she/her) @rebeccabeau.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The UN recognized 2026 as the Year of the Woman Farmer and I'm so proud to announce the installation of a new exhibition at McLaughlin Library @uofguelph.bsky.social that honours women's contributions to Canadian agriculture. Will be on display until Spring 2027. #womeninag #cdnag #ruralhist
Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of the Ontario Agricultural College. Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of women's involvement in fall fairs. Photograph of a display case containing items related to the history of the Macdonald Institute. Photograph of the intro panel for the exhibit titled Breaking Ground: Women and Canada's Agricultural Past.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Another round of: “Spot the Cruise Ship”
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
PEI Tourism may start re-promoting its “cool, health-giving air” of a century ago. “Salubrious” will make a comeback.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Back on PEI. Some research, some meetings, 2 talks - but also this.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Just starting “John of John” & already stopped dead.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Good, long photo-essay about the Statue of Liberty — with some unfortunate ad placement. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
References in a podcast to “of Island” constantly transcribes to “of Violent.” That’s going to help give me a 2nd title in my #PEI noir series, after “Harlot Town.”
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Mary Baxter @maryeb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just found out that I won the James Pritchard Student Article Prize from the Canadian Nautical Research Society for my article about sand suckers at Point Pelee that published earlier this year in The Northern Mariner! What a delightful surprise! Here is the article: doi.org/10.25071/256...
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Point Pelee’s Disappearing Act: Sand Suckers, Erosion, and Conflict Along the Shores of a Canadian National Park | The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Louis Riel says hi: Was just gifted this copy of Chester Brown's book, signed by the man himself.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Daughter: I have a question. Me: What is it? Daughter: An interrogative statement, used to test knowledge. But that’s not important right now. So proud.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@nytimes.com has published a #GraphicHistory of sorts about the American Revolution. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Seven Everyday Founders (Gift Article)
For the 250th anniversary, the Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the drama have been often overlooked.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
1 page into this. Sorlin opens with the Snow Angel of History. I’m hooked.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'm sorry to be missing #LMMI conference on PEI this week. Attendees: if you ever want a gratis guest speaker for your class or book club (*real* book club), I love talking about Myrtle Webb's story. greengablesdiary.ca www.mqup.ca/Books/B/Beco...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Highly recommend this thoughtful essay on class by @katebeaton.bsky.social. Having grown up on a small PEI farm ... & then had Ian McKay as a PhD supervisor ... I found it really resonated. ualbertapress.ca/978177212800...
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In the past 24 hours, received *3* Master's theses to read & review. There goes my morning.🙂
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Graduating @westernu.ca today? Impossible!
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Fun fact*: Jack Bouchard is both the 1st American winner of the @nichecanada.bsky.social prize AND the 1st (& only!) winner of an @aseh.bsky.social (non-student) prize for work that involves Canada. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/06/03/b... *I think; tell me if I'm wrong.
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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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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Listened to maybe 20 Champlain Society podcasts on my drives to & from PEI this week & really, really recommend them. So many smart folks speaking with so much knowledge & passion about #cdnhist history & their work in it. champlainsociety.utppublishing.com/witness-to-y...
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Witness to Yesterday podcast - Champlain Society
Discover who we are and the important work we do in scholarly publishing. Get detailed information about our mission, values, and how we're making an impact.
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Your periodic reminder that the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social / @nichecanada.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment series exists, that it's print/open-access, & that I'm always on the lookout for the next potential volume. Talk to me. press.ucalgary.ca/series/canad... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It’s perfectly possible I’m biased, but UPEI has been a great site for #CHASHC2026. This is a 15-second walk off-campus:
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Alan MacEachern @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you, @ubcpress.bsky.social for donating two $250 book prizes to grad students attending @nichecanada.bsky.social 🇨🇦 History & Environment Summer School at #CHASHC2026. Congratulations, Justin Fisher & Alex Stokes!
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