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 ...

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 ...

Figure 1. America’s most famous president sells America’s most famous dessert. Source: University of Guelph Archives & Special Collections [UGASC], Jell-O: America’s Most Famous Dessert (LeRoy, NY; ...

More than a century before the global outbreak of Covid-19, another deadly disease struck Honolulu, one that ignited the tragic unfolding of many stories about public health, urban fires and social ...

Understanding the far-right is key to making sense of our political moment. We are witnessing a resurgence of explicitly fascistic organizations, like the “active clubs” springing up in several ...

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 ...

This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning point elections. We discuss the post-war economy’s, ...

Access to sources determines what can and cannot be researched. Outside of academia, access also affects the public’s capacity to maintain a tangible link to the past. Collections are especially ...

In July 2023, former adherents of a religious movement went public with concerns that Christian conservatives in New Brunswick were “more radical than they seem.” The specific context was a political ...

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 ...

In 1979, lesbians in Fredericton, New Brunswick, found community not in a dedicated gay bar or a visible neighbourhood, but on the dance floor of the Cosmopolitan Club. On Thursday nights, women ...