By Annabelle Penney I did not expect to cry on the way home from the Calgary airport. It had been over a year since my last ...

Each of these datasets was built to answer a narrower question, by people who never expected their work to end up joined to ...

In my MA thesis, I built one example of how GraphRAG can work for historians. From 20,000 early modern documents, I ...

Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. I reject both approaches.[1] Not because I don’t ...

While a small but vocal minority of historians have embraced the use of generative artificial intelligence in their research and teaching,[1] many of us find ourselves trying to hold the pedagogical ...

This post is part of a series on AI and Collaboration. Archive boxes by Pexels. Free for use under the Pixabay content license. Transcribing archival documents is an important part of historical ...

Residential school denialism is on the rise in Canada and meaningful reconciliation is at risk. 1 After the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report in 2015, and especially ...

This is the first post in a series exploring the potential of the Great Acceleration as a framework and reconnaissance of Canadian environmental history. The posts in this series are cross-posted with ...

This post is part of a series on AI and Collaboration. “Old Books” by jarmoluk via Pixabay. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License. For many people who use archives, the accessibility of ...

This week, I talk with Cody Groat, author of Always Part of the Land: The Federal Commemoration of Indigenous Histories. We discuss the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada‘s approach to ...

“A View From the Roof of the Residence.” Twenty One Years at Mansfield House, 1890-1911. Plaistow: W. S. Caines, 1911. 1. “From the roof of the Settlement one looks over a vast, monotonous, dingy sea ...

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 ...