Nathan Smith, PhD

Historian - On Twitter to learn, share, and connect

[Indigenous History & Heritage Gathering @IHHGathering]

We're keeping the momentum going at the #IHHG2023 🎉🌿 with the session: Conditions of Access: Navigating Restrictions of LAC Collections, presented by Library and Archives Canada. 📚🔒

#IndigenousGathering #ShawCenterOttawa #KnowHistory #IHHG

[Indigenous History & Heritage Gathering @IHHGathering]

The Indigenous History and Heritage Gathering has officially begun at the @CentreShawCenter! 🌺

We are starting things off with a pre-conference workshop: Design to Delivery by @KnowHistory and their CEO @RyanShackleton. 🔍
#IndigenousGathering #KnowHistory #IHHG #IHHG2023

[ArtReview_ @ArtReview_]

Let’s keep Colston falling https://t.co/wKj2k2Zaxy

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

https://t.co/sgoVZtl5fE

[Jeff Ostler @Jeff__Ostler]

In 1960, the great Dakota artist Oscar Howe painted "Wounded Knee Massacre," which I am posting today on the 132nd anniversary of the massacre, along with Howe's own little-known commentary on the painting.

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Livraria Lello is a bookstore with Art Nouveau elements built in 1881 in Porto, Portugal.

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

Renaming places: how Canada is reexamining the map https://t.co/Z02AFPjPW0

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

'We are ecstatic': Scugog Island First Nation lifts 13-year drinking water advisory https://t.co/iKmlXXYP4u via @@newsdurham

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

Feds pledge up to $40B for First Nations kids, child welfare reform: https://t.co/RR4wcfHRc0

[Janice Forsyth @janice_ubc]

Here's a good example of a dominant source producing a false history. The Star didn't "commission" this study. I started it last year to investigate Marsh's journalistic legacy. Then I invited The Star to be involved - and they are not contributing $$. https://t.co/euDmz31Hyt

[DailyRadical History @radicaldaily]

Dec 14 2008 - Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at President Bush in protest at US occupation of Iraq. He shouted "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog" & "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq" with the second shoe.

[Working Class History @wrkclasshistory]

#OtD 14 Dec 2008 journalist @muntazer_zaidi threw his shoes at pres George W Bush in protest at the US occupation of Iraq, shouting “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq.” He resumed his activism after 6 months jail.

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

Good question #cdnhist #canlab #onlab #cdnpoli

[Jonathan Singer @ONcollegeprof]

So an interesting question: In Ontario history, has ANY employer ever unilaterally imposed Terms & Conditions of employment on unionized employees, in *two* separate rounds of bargaining?

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

⚡️ Breaking: I've just been shown a memo from Ontario Cabinet Secretary saying ontario public service workers are being asked to work from home till Feb 7.

What does this mean for other public sector workers? #onpoli #onted

Anyone? Anyone?

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Secessionist desk with a 'disappearing' chair from 1903 by Koloman Moser (1868-1918), Vienna, Austria.

[LCSC @studyofcanada]

LCMSDS is expanding to become the Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada (LCSC). The reimagined research centre will facilitate and support original research on the expansive, evolving and contested interpretations of Canada.

Learn more here: https://t.co/82t5lT63q6

[Northumberland News @north_news]

FROM OUR NETWORK: Ontario’s new law on employees’ right to disconnect is vague and offers little protection, experts say.
https://t.co/1enZCMj6jI

[Nathan Smith, PhD @nsmith241]

@NPayneEditor Lots of them in "Old Ontario". There's an Allward one at Queen's Park.

[ActiveHistory.ca @ActiveHist]

In his new book "Standoff: Why Reconciliation Fails Indigenous People and How to Fix It", Bruce McIvor explores the failures of Reconciliation and how to resolve these issues. Hear from @BruceMcIvor on the new episode of History Slam!
https://t.co/3Xv0didPId