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2 months ago | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore |Christopher Moore
I once wrote a column that started, " The American inclination to sign trade agreements and then resist being bound by them is longstanding."I was writing about a fishing agreement signed in 1871. But the point holds.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
Bloomberg News is not one of my regular reads, and current news is mostly paywalled there, but its recent story "The Business of History" is now generally available. It's about the popularity and profitability of history podcasts. It also makes note of the rising sales of books about history. Bloomberg speculates it may all be related to the decline of history studies in universities.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
The TVOntario blog TVO Today, which carries historical essays from time to time, has a recent post by broadcaster Steve Paikin on a Toronto event of the newish culture-wars organization CIHE.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
From Ottawa, Frank Rockland shares some thoughts on whether Optical Character Recognition can or will help with transcribing -- or simply understanding -- handwritten historical documents. I went looking for a tool that could help convert handwriting into text for note taking.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
This week, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography's weekly online publication of a new biography has been supplemented by the release of a revised biography: that of John A Macdonald, previously issued in 1990 and now extensively reworked. It deserves attention from students of historiography as well as of history. The basic Macdonald biography remains largely the work as published in 1990 and credited to Peter Waite and J.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
Recently, the world had a little giggle over the oddity that is the "Canadian" monarchy from this story. (It seemed to get rather less coverage in Canada, judging by search links.) This is The Guardian's lead on the story:The council of a town in Canada’s Yukon territory has been locked for weeks in bureaucratic standstill after its members refused to swear a mandatory oath of allegiance to King Charles ....
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
I've been reading in Gary Bass's Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize 2024. There was a Canadian on the panel of judges at the Tokyo trial of Japan's accused war criminals, and I naturally wanted to find out a bit about him. He was E. Stuart McDougall (1886-1957, a judge of the Quebec court of appeal and very briefly a Quebec cabinet minister in the 1930s.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
I continue to dabble in Bluesky to see what comes up. Notably, two remarkable essays. First, there's a link to the London Review of Books essay "A Man of Parts and Learning" It's about a man called Francis Williams, slavery, black culture, art history, global intellectual currents of the mid-eighteenth century, and Halley's Comet, among other things -- and it's a beautiful composition to boot.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
As I started building up a Bluesky social media account last week, some of the people I followed on X could not yet be found there. After this weekend, most of them have joined.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore
a long profile of Robert Paxton, 92 year-old American historian of fascism, whose 1972 book “Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944, transformed historical understanding of France and its politics under German occupation 1940-44 and who has remained a leading authority on fascism and its variants ever since.
