PhD student in History at Queen’s University. Great Lakes, the War of 1812, Indigenous & environmental history.
Jake Breadman
“Shoped the Fate of North America”
Congrats to all our 2025-26 MA #PublicHistory students now hard at work at their internships!
Do you know about our thematic galleries? These special projects bring together many biographies within the context of a theme such as sports, the Acadians, the Fenians, Confederation, and many more. Today's highlighted theme is responsible government.
www.biographi.ca/en/theme_gov...
Bio of the Day: Hortense Globensky (Prévost) (1804–73).
For holding off a group of Patriotes who intended to attack her house, Hortense Globensky-Prévost was called Chevalière des Deux-Montagnes and Héroïne du Nord by newspapers at the time. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/globe...
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Haul from the local used book store, Berry & Peterson
Does anyone out there have a digital copy of The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Robert G. Angevine?
Benjamin Rush is a super interesting fellow. I learned recently that Stockton Rush, the Titan submersible guy, was a descendant of Dr. Rush. If I had to guess, this portrait of Rush by Thomas Sully was probably part of Stockton's estate, and sold soon after his death in 2023.
AI psychosis? Try having delusions like a real man, such as when I convinced myself through the power of OCD that I caused the 2008 cyclone in Myanmar
