On 27 March 2025, United States president Donald Trump signed the executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” a broadside attack on rigorous historical interpretation at the Smithsonian museums and other federally managed historical sites. It takes particular aim at histories that consider racism, gender, or hierarchy as important categories of analysis and […]

The Fédération Histoire Québec is pleased to announce its symposium, “Femmes d’histoire & Histoire des femmes,” which will take place in Montreal on November 7 and 8, 2025. Organized in collaboration with the Mémoire des femmes committee, the symposium will focus on women’s history in Quebec. Deadline for submissions: June 6, 2025. For further information,

The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association invites you to a roundtable discussion of Rowan Dorin’s Ferguson-Prize-winning book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023). No Return is the most recent winner of the Canadian Historical Association’s Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, which recognizes

Do you have ideas about how to improve Canadiana? If so, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) would like to hear from you! CRKN invites you to participate in a virtual group interview to help it understand how you use Canadiana and other digital collections websites, and how to better serve your needs as it plans

The Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, offered by The Vimy Foundation, gives young people aged 15 to 17 from Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of those who shaped history. When: August 1-11, 2025 Deadline: March 12, 2025 To apply or learn more, visit https://vimyfoundation.ca/programs/beaverbrook-vimy-prize.

The Graduate History Students’ Association in the Department of History at Queen’s University is pleased to invite submissions for its 22nd Annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference, which will be held on March 29th and 30th at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is Histories Unbound: Pathways of the Past. For more information, see the

The Dalhousie Graduate History Society is accepting proposals from undergraduate and graduate students in all academic disciplines for its 2025 student conference, to be held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, May 3. Further details on the location and timing of the event will be announced to accepted applicants. This conference will

The Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law offers support for a research project on private enterprise, law and history through the CBHA/ACHA. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively in developing proposals that will result in a scholarly article that takes an historical perspective on a Canadian family controlled or other private

The Governor General’s History Awards are Canada’s top honours in the field of history and heritage. The awards are administered by Canada’s National History Society, with the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage, and Power Corporation of Canada. For a list of available awards for 2025, please consult Canada’s National

Date and Time: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m. (EST) Description: Free online presentation/discussion by QUESCREN Lunch & Learn Sir Guy Carleton, an Irish Protestant who served as Governor of Quebec, has been celebrated for enacting the Quebec Act in 1774, the first Canadian constitution to enshrine values underlying pluralism, tolerance, and multiculturalism. In this

The Tom and Christine Symons Archival Fellowship at Trent University assists both graduate students and established researchers who need to travel to and establish temporary residence in Peterborough. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and full details may be accessed here.

Do you use digitized photos, manuscripts, or audio/visual archives in your research? If so, you are eligible to fill out the survey described below. Researchers of all types who use library-digitized collections may answer this short anonymous survey about how they find and use collections of library materials that have been digitized and put online. Results

Title: Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies  Location and date: Université du Québec à Montréal, 14-15 November 2025 In 1976 the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) launched its journal Labour/Le Travail, hoping to “foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an

The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the Vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and academia shape these views. This online survey invites anyone, anywhere, over 18, to share their thoughts

The Professional Division of the American Historical Association is seeking to collect and collate information about the working conditions of historians employed as contingent/sessional faculty. It has developed two surveys, one for non-tenure-track faculty and one for department chairs. Faculty and chairs at Canadian institutions are encouraged to respond. More information about the survey and its goals can