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Wampanoags are seen being struck down by an invisible killer, lying in pools of blood (19th Century Woodcut of a Smallpox Epidemic Colonial Massachusetts)

Rumors of Apocalypse: The Epidemics that Shaped (and Didn't Shape) British America, 1600s-1776

Jason Opal

McGill University

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How Travel, Trade, and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity

Jeffrey M. Pilcher

University of Toronto

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All Doors Are Closed to Us: Soviet Jewish Returnees from Israel in Cold War Europe

Dr. Amy Fedeski

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State Security, Civil Liberty and the Origins of the Canadian Secret Police

David A. Wilson

University of Toronto

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Front cover of City Limits, August 27-September 2, 1982. Photo: Paul Trevor; design: David King.

Young Soul Rebels: Then and Now

Daniel McNeil

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Permitting and Prohibiting Abortion in Mexico, 1871-1952

Nora E. Jaffary

Concordia University

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Ritchie, Leitch. Heath’s Picturesque Annual: Ireland Picturesque and Romantic. London: Longman, 1837

Irish Lumpers: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine

Padraic Scanlan

University of Toronto

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Academic tower on Indigenous lands. Image credit: Brunette-Debassige, C. & Pichette, H. (Urban Iskwew). (2022).

Revisiting University Histories: Why we need to critically engage with the specific colonial histories of our institutions

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Information Manipulation in the Past and Present

Heidi Tworek

University of British Columbia

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A man mining in a dark cave in Tunisia. 20 February 1960, Redeyef, Tunisia. Photo copyright Gilbert von Raepenbusch, reprinted courtesy of Fonds Beit el Bennani, Tunis, Tunisia

Water and Dust: Phosphate Mining, Environmental Degradation, and Global Capitalism in Tunisia (1880s-2010s)

Dr. Rebecca Gruskin

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Wood, Fire, Smoke, Paper, Cloud: An Environmental History of the Miramichi Fire

Alan MacEachern

University of Western Ontario

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How Edmund, an enslaved teenager, cracked the secret of vanilla's artificial pollination on Bourbon Island, 1841.

How Edmond, an enslaved teenager, cracked the secret of vanilla's artificial pollination on Bourbon Island, 1841.

Eric Jennings

University of Toronto

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"Crime and Payment: One Law for the Rich and One for the Poor?"

David Smith

Wilfrid Laurier University

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Pride of Place: The Politics of Queer Histories in the Prairies

Dr. Valerie Korinek

University of Saskatchewan

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A page from a book from the early modern British Empire

Language and Sovereignty in the Early Modern British Empire

Asheesh Siddique

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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The Audacity of his Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis nation that Canada Never Was

Max Hamon

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Erotic Archival Entanglements: Flea Markets, Collections, and Preservation in Mexico

Zeb Tortorici

New York University

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Shared Worlds: The Victorian Reception of the Rubaiyat of Monar Khayyam

Juan Cole

University of Michigan

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Haudenosaunee Brooklyn: Ironworking and the Futurity of Indigenous Nationhood

Alan Downey

McMaster University

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Across Oceans of Law

Renisa Mawani

University of British Columbia

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Re-imagining Democracy in Europe after the French Revolution: the Diversity of National Experience

Joanna Innes

Oxford University

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Of Mills and Metals: Migrant Knowledge in Modern History

Swen Steinberg

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The Threat of Jewish Invisibility—Medieval, Early Modern, Modern

Francesca Trivellato

School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

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Thinking the British Empire Whole to 1788

Steven Pincus

University of Chicago

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Anti-Colonialism and the Inter-Colonial Response: Violence and Power in East and Southeast Asia in the 1930s.

Heather Streets-Salter

Northeastern University

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Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and a Good Life in Postwar Canada

Tina Loo

University of British Columbia

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The British Province of Senegambia, 1758-17:84: Colonial Failure on the West African Coast

Chris Brown

Columbia University

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Quicklime: Roger Casement's Queer Infamy

Matthew Guterl

Brown University

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Natural Disaster, Sin, and Blame in Late Medieval Valencia

Abigail Agresta

Queen's University

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Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada

Cecelia Morgan

University of Toronto

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Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution(s): Work in Progress

John McNeill

Georgetown University

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Perils and Promises of Mobility and Mutation: The Government of Vagrants and the Irish, c. 1560-1620

Ted McCormick

Concordia University

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The Witness and the Other: Photography and the Origins of Humanitarianism

Jeremy Adelman

Princeton University

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Vaal Burning: Reinterpreting the Anti-Pass Campaign of 1960 in South Africa

Noor Nieftagodien

University of the Witwatersrand

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Crusade, Islam, and the Middle Ages' Greatest Prophet, Joachim of Fiore

Jay Rubenstein

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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The Global Fur-Trade: Indigenous People, Colonial Rule, and Imperial Connections in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century

Adele Perry

St. John's College, University of Manitoba

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Writing about Queen's: an Historian Ponders the Emergence of a Multiversity

Duncan McDowall

Queen's University

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Voltaire and the Radical Enlightenment

Nicholas Cronk

Oxford University

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The Final Voyage of the Santa Catharina: Notes towards a Global Microhistory of Trade and Politics in the Indian Ocean

Sebouh Aslanian

University of California, Los Angeles

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The Singapore Mutiny of 1915: The Local was Global

Heather Streets-Salter

Northeastern University

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