Mark McLaughlin, PhD

On the blog, Jay Lalonde, Tegan Rowlings, and Zachary A. Tingley cast a critical eye on the Nova Scotia Government's decision to cut funding to the history and heritage industries: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/wor…

The UNB-UMaine History Graduate Student Conference is fast approaching. For more details on the conference and the program, click though. acadiensis.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/unb…

Given recent concerning events, @TruthInTheSoil and I have decided to speak out about the harm and harassment of residential school denialism, arguing in this new piece for The Conversation that confronting it is an ethical and shared responsibility: news.umanitoba.ca/the-conversati…

Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties. For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/the…

We're Baaa-aack!! On the blog ... Michael Boudreau welcomes us to the 2025-2026 academic year with "'one of the wickedest crimes ever committed in this part of the country': The Execution of John Oliver, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1942": acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/one…

CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference at Crandall University, 24-25 October. Please Note: Proposals are due by 25 August. acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/cfp…

Back issues of the Telegraph Journal, Evening Times Globe, Daily Gleaner and Times Transcript are available now at newspapers.com (owned by Ancestry). 7 day free trial available.

Acadiensis is looking for submissions to the journal, and we have a newly updated website. Check out the announcement's in: English: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/aca… Français: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/app…

On the blog ... a CFP for the Ecologies, Knowledge, and Power in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Region, c. 1500-present - acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/cfp…

On the blog, Nicole Gilhuis revisits two 1726 piracy trials: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/col…

On the blog, an excerpt from Anthony Dickinson and Chesley Sanger's piece about whaling, mink farming, and rural economic development in Newfoundland: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/rur…

Come join us for NEAR-EH 2025 at Mount Allison University! Deadline to apply is May 2nd.

On the blog today, Daniel Englehutt and Peter L. Twohig present a microhistory of workers, safety, and the Public Service Commission of Halifax: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/wor…

NL still needs historians. Read the response of Jeff Webb and Sean Cadigan to Premier Furey's comments on Newfoundland history. ctvnews.ca/canada/newfoun…

On the blog ... Andrew Nurse reviews the exhibition Hidden Blackness: Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1828-1901, which runs until April 6 at the Owens Arts Gallery: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/rec…

On this day in 1991, The Tragically Hip released their second studio album Road Apples. It became their first #1 album in Canada, produced several hit songs and is remembered as one of the best albums of the 1990s to this day. Let's learn more about it! 🧵1/12

On the blog ... an excerpt from Claudine Bonner's essay "Bridging Religion and Black Nationalism: The Founding of St Philips African Orthodox Church and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Hall in Whitney Pier, 1900-1930." acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/bri… 1/2

We are excited to announce the release of the latest edition of Acadiensis, Vol. 53, No. 1! For more details, click the link: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/aca…

On the blog ... Joshua MacFadyen, Bailey Clark, and Nolan Kressin introduce us to the GeoPEI Map Collections: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/wha…