An article published in Science in 1960 predicted that, thanks to ever-increasing growth, in the year 2026 the human population would approach infinity.

Join CHA Annual Meeting 2027 | Réunion annuelle 2027 de la SHC, June 14-16, 2027. Learn more on Fourwaves.

Join CHA Annual Meeting 2027 | Réunion annuelle 2027 de la SHC, June 14-16, 2027. Learn more on Fourwaves.

Un événement intitulé « Sentiments et ressentiments canadien : atelier sur l'histoire des émotions au Canada » se tiendra les 16 et 17 juin 2027 à l'Université de Winnipeg. La date limite d’envoi des ...

Un colloque international intitulé « Travail et empires (XIXe-XXe siècles) » se tiendra les 28 et 29 octobre 2027 à l'Université de Sherbrooke. La date limite d’envoi des propositions est le 1er novem...

An international conference entitled “Labour and Empires (19th–20th Centuries)” will take place October 28-29, 2027 at the Université de Sherbrooke. The deadline to submit a proposal is November 1, 20...

An event entitled "Feeling/Not Feeling Canadian: A Workshop Exploring Histories of Emotion in Canada" will take place from June 16-17, 2027 at the University of Winnipeg. The deadline to submit a prop...

The processes designed to “soften” Upper Canada’s disease landscape—such as agriculture and settlement—were also tools of settler colonialism.

The workshop organizers invite proposals for panels and papers that highlight research about the history of emotions in Canada.

Karen Dubinsky, Professor Emerita of History and Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, brilliant scholar and generous friend to so many, passed away on 4 September 2026 after a br…

Distinguished service and scholarship in urban history.

York University in Toronto will host the 2030 Fifth World Congress of Environmental History, marking its North American debut.

Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.

Colby Gaudet, a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, is studying how some families navigated the legal and religious practices associated with grief and death. What he found is a community ad...

Applications from people around the world seeking Canadian citizenship certificates have been rising rapidly, fuelled by thousands from the United States, CBC News has learned. So many people have app...

Timber colonialism emphasizes the specific nature of timber as a natural resource and commodity. Timber is a renewable resource, but trees grow slower than annual crops, and forests are complex ecosystems. Moreover, forests are a lot more than a natural resource. They are essential for biodiversity and help stabilize the climate. Forests are culturally significant for local populations, and in many cases, they provide humans with sustainable resources, including food, medicines and timber. Timber colonialism analytically encompasses two separate but often interrelated phenomena: settler colonialism and colonial extractivism. It pivots around four factors: colonial relationships, global markets and consumption, environmental change, and local social circumstances.

'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information…

American visionaries, money and ideas have shaped Canada over centuries, whether we like it or not

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

Patients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease

The Laurentian dairy transition intensified agriculture, consolidated land, and industrialized the countryside, foreshadowing the global environmental impacts of the Anthropocene.

Jim Clifford When did the Great Acceleration start? Saskatchewan might hold the answer. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, the settler population exploded, and these newcomers broke 20 million acres …