John McCannon recently published "Passageways to Wisdom: Nicholas Roerich, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Symbols of Spiritual Enlightenment," in the summer 2004 issue of Russian Review. He also took a walk on the academically wild side, with "Shamanic Motifs in Fin-de-Siècle Russian Art," which appeared in the spring 2004 issue of the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic. John will be popping to England for a conference this weekend, presumably by aircraft.

Congratulations to Warren Johnston, whose article "The Anglican Apocalypse in Restoration England" has just appeared in the latest edition of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Readers inside the U of S loop can see the article by clicking here.

Congratulations to Peter Bietenholz and Tom Deutscher, whose magisterial three-volume Contemporaries of Erasmus (1985-1987) has just been reprinted by the University of Toronto Press in a single volume - without any editorial changes. Between the covers you will find biographical information about more than 1,900 people mentioned in the correspondence and other writings of Erasmus. It amounts to a biographical dictionary of the Renaissance and Reformation, and now that you can get all three volumes in one softcover tome for less than the price of a single volume in hardcover, you really have no excuses for not buying it.

History T.A.s might wish to check out a new feature of the Department website. From the pulldown menu for Graduates, click on "Resources For Grad Students" (or click here) and note that we have added a new section on Resources for History T.A.s. The links on offer provide guidance on marking essays, managing discussions, budgeting your time, and other matters that will seem more pressing next month.

Congratulations to Jim (a.k.a. "J.R.") Miller, who has just published Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations: Selected Essays (University of Toronto Press, 2004), a collection of some of his finest essays on Native people in Canada. Early reviews confirm that these essays "embody both careful attention to sources as well as great historical imagination." Some have been widely cited by scholars for years, others will find the wider audience they deserve for the first time. (You will be invited to click here for more details should the University of Toroto Press website ever work. In the meantime, feel free to proceed to your nearest bookstore and purchase the book.)

The Oxford Companion to Canadian History has just been published to considerable fanfare. It is a massive undertaking, though not as massive as the Globe reviewer implied when he described it as "bigger than a breadbox", when in fact it is the size of a large book. Our own Bill Waiser served on the Editorial Advisory Board, and the 527 contributors include Ken Coates (now of Sea to Sky University), Steve Hewitt (now of the University of Birmingham, England), Valerie Korinek, Maureen Lux, Jim Miller, Dale Miquelon, Ted Regehr (Emeritus), and Bill Waiser himself. Click here to learn more, but be aware of discounts on offer at online bookstores.

Jim Handy has just published “Chicken Thieves, Witches, and Judges: Vigilante Justice and Customary Law in Guatemala”, Journal of Latin American Studies, 36:3 (2004) 533-56. If you are in the U of S library loop, click here to read it.

For those interested in Scottish History (and who among us is not?) there are several new or upgraded web sites of interest. At http://edina.ac.uk/statacc/ you can find the entire text of the 1791-1799 and 1845 editions of the Scottish Statistical Account, a comprehensive and often quirky contemporary account of Scottish life on a parish-by-parish basis. The indispensible Dictionary of the Scots Language is available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl. At http://data.scottishscreen.com/home/ the Scottish Screen Archive offers clips from archival film footage, while the Virtual NLS at http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html offers a wonderful array of online exhibitions from the collection of the National Library of Scotland -- including not just a fine rendition of Parson James Gordon's 1660 map of Aberdeen (always a big draw), but a fascinating three-way look at the lives of a general, a nurse, and a regular soldier in World War I.

Alumna sighting: Signa Daum Shanks, who completed the first of her four degrees in our department and is currently pursuing a doctorate in law at the University of Toronto, is one of six winners of a new competition on law reform research aimed at graduate students. The competition is sponsored by the Law Commission of Canada and the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Signa's paper, which is to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, is titled "Who's the Best Indian?", and focusses on a claim by the Dene of northern Saskatchewan, whose caribou hunts historically carried into the Northwest Territories, until their right to hunt was superceded at the creation of Nunavut. Read more about Signa in the August-September issue of University Affairs.

Grad Students please note: the annual History T.A. Workshop will be held on Friday, September 10th, from roughly 11:am to 3:30pm. Stay tuned for further details.

Valerie Korinek was interviewed by CTV News yesterday regarding the telephone-clogging phenomenon of Canadian Idol. Valerie will be teaching an honours seminar on the history of Canadian popular culture this coming year.

Canadians, we are frequently told, love the British (sorry, Canadian) monarchy. For a firm reminder, be sure to catch the last few days of Happy and Glorious: The Royal Presence in Canada at the Diefenbaker Centre on campus. The exhibition ends on August 29th. Click here for further details.

On August 5th, while What's Up wasn't looking, Erin Millions crossed the finish line in glorious fashion, successfully defending her MA thesis, "Ties Undone: A Gendered and Racial Analysis of the Impact of the 1885 Northwest Rebellion on the Saskatchewan Territory". Congratulations, Erin.

Call for papers: Historians of medicine, in particular, may wish to note that the department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh, will host a conference in April 2005 on the theme of Diaspora and Disease. The conference will explore issues relating to the transnational circuits of people and associated medical discourses. The movement of people has long been associated with the spread of disease and infections, and the conference will stress historical context by way of understanding current practices. Themes to be developed include: Plague, contamination and international migration; Homeland and healthcare; Infection and the source of disease; Movement of medical staff; and Assimilation and accessing health resources. It is intended that a selection of papers will form the basis of a special edition of a journal focused on diaspora studies, and an edited volume. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Paru Raman (pr1@soas.ac.uk) by September 30th 2004. (The full text of the call for papers is posted in the Department Mail Room.)

Doctoral candidate Brendan Edwards is just back from a month in Europe. In late July he presented a paper on Charles A. Cooke at the 12th annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) in Lyon, France. For the remainder of the month he taught English in Modra, Slovakia. Upon returning he has taken over as Interim Special Collections Librarian at the U of S Library, a temporary half-time position while Janet Catterall (our regular Special Collections Librarian) is on maternity leave. Brendan invites all History faculty and graduate students who are not already aware of the treasures in Special Collections to visit the third floor of the Main Library soon!

The department has issued an updated timetable for undergraduate classes in 2004/05, including a complete list of instructors and room assignments. The page will be updated as any changes occur. It can be accessed under the "Undergraduates" tab at the top of any page on the department web site, or you can go straight there by clicking here.

Alumnus John Friesen (BA.Hons, MA) recently completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of Leeds, and has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He will be settling into Baltimore this September. Congratulations, John, on these outstanding achievements.

Congratulations to Julie Gibbings, who today successfully defended her M.A. thesis,"Becoming Green Citizens and Other Subjects: Community Forests in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala." We wish Julie all the best as she moves on to doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Genealogists, family historians, and historians generally can find an ever growing body of documentation on the web. Two new for-profit sites may be of interest to those tracing British families. Now in its 107th edition, the venerable Burke's Peerage and Gentry, founded on the principle (familiar to many dog and horse lovers) that breeding counts, can be accessed at http://www.burkes-libraries.com/. Meanwhile, 1837online.com "is part of an independently-owned business that is dedicated to providing high quality genealogical services to professional and non-professional researchers. On this site you will find the entire copy of the indexes of Birth, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales from 1837 to 2002".

As part of Research Services Day 2004 (September 2nd, in fact), Jim Miller will present a "Session on Grant Writing" for new faculty, current researchers, and graduate students planning to apply to SSHRC in the near future. Jim's presentation runs from 11:am to 12:20. The event runs all day. To pre-register, call 966-8578 or email kathy.wulf@usask.ca, or turn up on the day at the Physics Foyer.

Alumnus Sighting: John Sookocheff (BA 2002) sent in the following bulletin. "I'm currently a second year participant on the JET Programme. I work for the Susaki City Board of Education in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. I teach English to elementary and junior high school students and engage in "internationalization" throughout the prefecture, attend English-language exchanges, cultural events, et cetera. I enjoyed the first year so much, I signed up for a second. I'm looking forward to the challenge and surprises that rural Japan has to offer. My girlfriend and I do a blog so that our families can keep track of us. The address is www.onegaishimasu.blogspot.com."

The M.A. oral examination for Julie Gibbings will be held tomorrow, Wednesday August 18th, at 2:pm in Arts 710. Julie will defend her thesis, "Becoming Green Citizens and Other Subjects: Community Forests in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala." Everyone welcome.

Alumna sighting: Bronwen Thompson (BA '99) recently completed a Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Regina and has moved to Edmonton to work as a Budget and Business Planning Analyst with Alberta Finance.

The Digital Library of Historical Directories produced by the University of Leicester in England is a digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories (phone books before there were phones) from England and Wales. Directories of counties and towns are important sources for local and genealogical studies. They include lists of names, addresses and occupations, and successive editions reflect changes over time. Check it out at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/.

Hidden Lives Revealed focuses on the period 1881-1918, and includes unique archive material about poor and disadvantaged children from across England and Wales cared for by The Waifs and Strays' Society. See it at http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/.

Anthropologists are dear people, generally, who often write things that historians might find useful. Internet Anthropologist is a free "teach-yourself" Web tutorial, designed to develop skills in using the Internet for anthropological research. The idea is to help anthropology lecturers to pass these skills on to their students, but historians and their students may also find it helpful. The tutorial is free to all, at http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/anthropologist.

July 1 marks, among other things, the start of Brett Fairbairn's five-year term as Head of the History Department. Brett is a graduate of our department (BA hons), and went on to complete his doctorate at Oxford University. From 1986 until roughly yesterday he held a joint appointment in the History Department and the Centre for the Study of Co-Operatives. He was director of the Centre from 2000 until roughly yesterday. A specialist in German and Western Canadian social movements, author of three books and many other publications, holder of numerous awards and fellowships, past editor of the Canadian Journal of History -- Brett brings a wealth of academic and administrative experience to the headship.

Scottish historians, in particular, may wish to note that the Special Libraries & Archives facilities at the University of Aberdeen will be closed for renovations from the end of June until the end of August, 2004.

Keith Carlson's PhD dissertation "The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: A Study of Aboriginal Identity and History" received honourable mention in the competition for the John Bullen Prize for outstanding historical dissertation written by a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant living in Canada and attending a Canadian university. Keith's dissertation examines the history of collective identity among the Aboriginal people of the lower Fraser River watershed in British Columbia. He received his award at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg on June 5, 2004. Congratulations, Keith!

Laurence Kitzan retires from the department on July 1. He joined the Department in 1962, and over the years taught everything from Canadian history to European surveys. Generations of undergrads will remember him best for his classes on British and Imperial history. He supervised many graduate students and ran our grad program for many years. He published Victorian Writers and the Image of Empire: The Rose-Colored Vision in 2001, and is now working on missionaries and governors in India in the 1920s and on 18th & 19th century travellers. Laurence's kettle may have steamed the place up, but the man himself has always been a model of good grace and easy humour. We wish him well, and now that he is Emeritus we hope that he will be a regular visitor to the 6th and 7th floors.

Bill Waiser has received the University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher Award for 2004. Bill is one of Canada's leading historians, with thirteen articles and eight books to his name. His ninth book will be the much-anticipated official history of the province. Best known to a wider public for his Looking Back series on the CBC news, Bill's skills as communicator and teacher on campus brought him a College of Arts and Science Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. Bill is horribly young to be winning these life-time achievement awards, but fortunately for us it is quite likely that the best is yet to come. Click here to read more about Bill and this latest honour.

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Michael Swan (known to his publishers as Peter Michael Swan) for his recently published monograph, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55-56 (9 B.C.-A.D. 14) (Oxford University Press: 2004). Writing in the third century A.D., historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor Augustus. Michael's book offers the first new commentary on this segment of Dio's work to appear since the eighteenth century. As one would expect of Michael, the book is addressed to both students and scholars. Click here for further details.

Paul Jenkins has successfully defended his MA thesis, "Witchcraft on Trial? Sir George Mackenzie, Rebellion, and the Politics of Witch-hunting in Late Seventeenth Century Scotland". Paul has also recently been awarded an Overseas Research Students (ORS) award, administered by Universities UK and the British government's Department of Education and Skills, to assist him in pursuing his doctoral studies in Scottish history at the University of Glasgow, starting this fall. Congratulations, Paul!

Brendan Edwards, just back from delivering a paper at the recent Congress on the topic of book culture in Canada, reports the founding of a new scholarly society, the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture / Association Canadienne pour l’étude de l’histoire du livre, dedicated to bringing together those residents of Canada who are interested in the study of written communication in its various forms and processes, and to encouraging the interdisciplinary study and teaching of these subjects. For further details, contact the founding president of the CASBC/ACEHL, Professor Leslie Howsam of the Dept. of History, University of Windsor.

The U of S History Department had a strong presence at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, held in Winnipeg June 3-5 in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Keith Carlson gave a paper entitled "Coyote Goes to London: Literacy and Promises in Aboriginal Oral Traditions and Native-Newcomer Relations", and participated in a roundtable discussion of Cole Harris' Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press), winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best non-fiction work of Canadian history. Whitney Lackenbauer gave a paper on "The Methodological Challenge of “Non-Events”: A Reflection Using Comparative Case Studies on Military-Aboriginal Relations over Land Use in Twentieth-Century Canada". Myra Rutherdale presented a paper on "An Arctic Fashion Show: Northern Women and Southern Clothing, 1930-1970", and chaired a session on mission and residential schools. Jason Zorbas gave a paper on "The Politics of Personalities: Canada and the Organization of American States, 1957-1963". Brendan Edwards delivered a paper at the Symposium on Book and Print Culture. And Jim Miller was the commentator for a session on the "Confluences of Popular Culture, Orality, Racial Stereotypes, and History".

Tonya Lambert (MA 2002), has been awarded a SSHRC doctoral fellowship for her work at the University of Alberta on "Conceiving Rape: Sexual Violence and Reproduction in England, 1250-1750". Her thesis is being supervised by Profs. Andrew Gow and Lesley Cormack. In other news, Tonya participated in the Canadian Society of Medievalists conference at the recent Congress of the Humanities and Social Science, presenting a short paper entitled "Rape and Reproduction in Late Medieval England: Con/De-ception and the Body". Congratulations, Tonya.

John Porter’s article, “Never Give an Adulescens an Even Break (Naevius Com. 36-38 Ribbeck),” has just appeared in The Classical Journal vol. 99 for 2004, pp. 395-403. Professor Porter proposes the emendation of a fragment of the Roman comic playwright Naevius, with reflections on the portrayal of pimps, procuresses, and prostitutes in Roman New Comedy, and on their relationship to their young male customers.

With the D-Day 60th Anniversary coming up this Sunday, the City College of New York Libraries have created the website Government Views of D-Day 1944. The site concentrates on online primary government documents/information from the United States, as well as Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Canada. There are 38 subject headings ranging from Air Operations to Underwater Archaeology and Weather. See it at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/DDay.html

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides (posters, early newssheets) lets you see for yourself what The Word On The Street was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, ballads, royalty, superstitions - all these and more are here. Each broadside comes with a detailed commentary and most also have a full transcription of the text, plus a downloadable PDF facsimile. You can search by keyword, browse by title or browse by subject. Here at What's Up, things Scottish have always struck us as more interesting than other things. See what we mean at http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/.

Those of you wedded to Historical Abstracts might also like to check out the new Academic Search Premier, a very large full text multidisciplinary database compiled by the giant journal clearing-house, EBSCO. It indexes over 8,000 journals (70% of them peer-reviewed scholarly titles), including more than 4,600 in full text -- with direct links. For more information see http://library.usask.ca/dbs/asp.html, or go there directly at http://library.usask.ca/scripts/access?ASP

Indian Affairs Annual Reports is a digitized searchable collection of the annual reports created by the various Government of Canada departments responsible for the portfolio of Indian Affairs from 1864 to 1990. The collection was compiled by the National Library of Canada and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
For further information see: http://library.usask.ca/dbs/iaar.html

Women Working from 1870 to 1930 is a fascinating new on-line resource representing the first fruits of a Harvard University Library initiative intended to demonstrate the feasibility of bringing together books, manuscripts, and images from across the Harvard Libraries and Museums and integrating them into a digital collection using the Web as a primary access tool. See it at http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/

The university catalogue now allows users of the Early English Newspapers microfilm collection to search for all 1,293 newspaper titles by individual title. Simply search for the overall title "Early English Newspapers", and from there click on "See an alphabetical (and searchable) listing of the titles included in this microfilm collection".

Through June 17 the Library is offering trial access to The Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection, which enhances our Core Collection of over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works with an expanding range of key titles, including the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means an additional 70,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies". How can you resist? Check it out at http://library.usask.ca/eresources/trials/trials.htm#orop

For a full-motion view of the recent-ish past, see British MovieTone News, a Website of one-minute potraits of famous people and stereotyped scenes of British life dating back to 1929. Shot in black-and-white but candy-coloured all the way, these old newsreel clips are as interesting for the way the stories are told as for the stories themselves. See for yourself at: http://www.movietone-portraits.com/

Métis Scrip Records is a searchable database of over 15,000 images of selected parts of original scrip records held in the National Archives of Canada. The federal government created a number of records in its day-to-day administration of the scrip that it issued to Métis residents of Manitoba and the former North-West Territories. The records generally consist of affidavits and applications, land and money scrip notes, scrip certificates, receipts, and a number of textual files consisting of letters and memoranda outlining government policies, rulings, and procedures. This database provides access to the affidavits and applications only.
Full Information Page: http://library.usask.ca/dbs/metis.html
Direct Link:http://library.usask.ca/scripts/access?metis.html

Library users can now access the UBCIC RG 10 File & Item Database compiled by the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. It consists of the information contained in fifty-two electronic finding aids obtained from the National Archives, and represents all the electronic finding aids for Department of Indian Affairs Record Group 10 as of April 1997. Included on the database are finding aids to the following series:
Black Series: Western Canada 1872-1959
Red Series: Eastern Canada and Headquarters Administration 1872-1964
Central Registry Files: General Headquarters files 1833-1989
School Files: School administration files 1879-1953
Full Information Page: http://library.usask.ca/dbs/ubcic.html
Direct Link: http://library.usask.ca/scripts/access?UBCIC

Our friends in the Library inform us that the National Union Catalog of pre-1956 imprints is again available in the Main Library. Its new permanent location (the catalogue exists in three dimensions, as books, so you need to travel to the library to see it) is on the third floor, near the end of the "C" classed material. This is a fundamental resource offering the entire Library of Congress cumulative list of authors up to 1956.

Graduate students in the History Department have done exceedingly well in the latest SSHRC competitions. Congratulations to Brendan Edwards and Julie Gibbings, each of whom has been awarded a prestigious Canada Graduate Scholarships Program (CGS) Doctoral Scholarship. Congratulations, too, to Brad Coates, Karen Sander, Elizabeth Scott, and Jillian Staniec, each of whom won CGS Master's Scholarships.

Warren Johnston and Jeff Wigelsworth each have an article in a special edition of the Canadian Journal of History 38 (2003), which is just out. The essays originated at a conference last May in Halifax to honour the retirement of Professor Paul Christianson of Queen's University. Warren's article is "The Patience of the Saints, the Apocalypse and Moderate Nonconformity in Restoration England", while Jeff's is "Lockean Essences, Political Posturing, and John Toland's Reading of Isaac Newton's Principia." Other essays are by John Morrill, Sears McGee, and Ian Gentles, so be sure not to this edition of the journal. Click here for further details.

Brendan Cook (BA hons, MA), currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto (a well-regarded institution in central Canada), has just been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship . Brendan also reports that he passed his Ph.D. Latin exam at the Centre for Medieval Studies, along with his Latin Paleography class. Congratulations, Brendan!

Empire Online is a new document collection available through the U of S Library, a searchable database containing full text images of original manuscripts and printed material, 1492-1969, taken from libraries and archives around the world. It covers Africa, the Americas, Australasia, Oceania and South Asia. It also includes a strong core of document images from the British Library and from the Oriental and India Office Collections at the British Library. Two of the five sections are available thus far:

Section I: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 (March 2003)
Section II: Empire Writing and the Literature of Empire (March 2004)
Section III: The Visible Empire (Winter 2004/5)
Section IV: Religion and Empire (Winter 2005/6)
Section V: Race, Class and Colonialism, c1783-1969 (Winter 2006/7)

Check it out at http://library.usask.ca/scripts/access?EMPIRE

Note to instructors: course packs and electronic reserves permitted for a "reasonable portion."

The U of S Library has just added links to a batch of new history-related electronic journals. Click on the titles to see:

Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography

Delaware Review of Latin American Studies

E-Journal of Portuguese History

Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies

Electronic journal of oriental studies

Eras

Fundus: Forum fr Geschichte und ihre Quellen

Gottinger Forum fr Altertumswissenschaft

Historia

History of Intellectual Culture

International Journal of Naval History

Intersections: gender, history & culture in the Asian context

Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies

The 2004 Grad Student Book Pub was a huge success, raising a world-record total of $754.50! Since the amount of money surpassed the wildest dreams, the HGSC has decided to donate a portion of the profits to the Dave De Brou Memorial Scholarship Fund.

MA candidate Paul Jenkins has just published "'Fire Sparkles Ordinarily From the Collision of Two Bodies': Sir George MacKenzie and the Decline of the Scottish Witch-Hunts in Context", in S.K. Kehoe and Iain H. MacPhail, eds. A Panorama of Scottish History: Contemporary Considerations (University of Glasgow, 2004). Congratulations, Paul.

Two new journals pertaining to American history have been added to the U of S Library EJournal database: click on the titles to see the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Oregon Historical Quarterly.

On Saturday May 2 CRC post-doctoral fellow Myra Rutherdale will present a paper "Autobiographical Approaches To Nursing History: Methodological Pitfalls and Promises" in a session called "Approaches To Remoteness or Was There A "Normal" In Canadian Nursing History," at an international conference in Banff, Alberta on Qualitative Health Research. From there she will fly to Yellowknife, NWT for a week of research at the territorial archives. Click here for the conference program.

A major collection of rare books, manuscripts, historic documents, maps and art of the Americas has been donated to the Library of Congress by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation of Miami Lakes, Fla. The collection contains some of the earliest records of indigenous peoples in North America and superb objects from the discovery, contact and colonial periods, especially for Florida, the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Click here for details.

Whitney Lackenbauer, current CRC Postdoctoral Fellow and soon to be a member of the History Department of St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, has been busy. He delivered the lecture on Vimy Ridge to the Command and Staff Course at Canadian Forces College in Toronto on 9 February. In late February and early March, he undertook a research trip to the Northwest Territories and Yukon, where he participated as an "augmentee" on a Canadian Rangers field exercise in the central Yukon. Whitney learned a tremendous amount about northern cultures, and the Ross River Ranger patrol made him an honourary Ranger. The valuable research he collected will provide the basis for an article in The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin on Ranger instructors due out this summer, as well as the monograph he is writing on the history of the Canadian Rangers.

Another New Book: Congratulations to Brett Fairbairn, who has just published Living the Dream: Membership and Marketing in the Co-operative Retailing System (Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, 2003). Aimed at both academic and civilian readers, the book serves as a primer on the co-operative system, offering a fascinating glimpse into a successful community-based business model that has adapted in surprising ways to the challenges of globalization. Brett's earlier book, Building a Dream: The Co-operative Retailing System in Western Canada, 1928–1988, has just been reprinted by the Centre. Click here for details.

New Book: Congratulations to Jim Miller, who has just published Lethal Legacy: Current Native Controversies in Canada (McLelland and Stewart, 2004). The book explores the deep historical roots that underpin and bedevil Native-newcomer relations in general and recent controversies in particular. In five sections this book covers topics such as Native identity, self-government, treaties, attitudes to land and ownership, and assimilation. Jim acknowledges the fact that there are no easy solutions, but argues that greater understanding is the foundation for building successful relations between Natives and non-Natives in Canada. There is no need for to wait for the library to acquire a copy, because it is available in fine bookstores everywhere. Click here to read more about it.

Research Excellence: Members of the History Department have once again done well in the annual competition for research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Congratulations to Ken Coates, Angela Kalinowski, John McCannon, Jim Miller, and Myra Rutherdale, all of whom won standard research fellowships, and to Whitney Lockenbauer who won a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship.

Fond Farewells: Speaking of Myra Rutherdale and Whitney Lockenbauer, our two postdoctoral fellows in Native-Newcomer history, they have each been successful in their hunt for a tenure track position. Myra has accepted a postion at York University in Toronto (taking her research grant with her), while Whitney (who will have to turn down his postdoc award) has accepted a position at St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo. Congratulations and best wishes to both of them.

Ph.D. candidate Brendan Edwards will be presenting two papers this summer on the literary efforts of Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere), a Mohawk employee of the Department of Indian Affairs, 1893-1926. One at a Symposium on History & Print Culture in June at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Winnipeg; and the other in July at the twelfth annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) in Lyon, France.
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Lisa Smith is just back from a lightning raid on England, where she presented a paper entitled "The Duties of a Man: Making Medical Decisions in Early Modern England and France" at an interdisciplinary conference, Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power, at the University of Southampton. The programme (or program, if you would rather) for the conference can be found at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pes1/masculinity/programme.html.

Mark Meyers has been named a Fellow of the Ninth Annual Summer Institute for the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, which will take place at Northwestern University from June 20 to July 2nd of this year.

London's Past Online, produced by the Centre for Metropolitan History in association with the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, is a free online bibliography of published material relating to the history of the Greater London area. In it, you will be able to find everything relating to the history of the capital, from counting house to music hall; from the Fire to the Blitz; from Whittington to Livingstone. It should represent a starting point for all enquiries concerning London's development over the centuries or any conceivable aspect of London life, whether from the academic historian, the amateur or the general enquirer. See it here at http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol/.

British History Online is the digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. The site contains a treasure trove of primary documents, including 17th century records of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, a 1695 list of the inhabitants of London, and a growing number of county histories. See it at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/.

The Manitoba Historical Society is about half way through a major digitization project which will eventually see all of the society's 125 years worth of publications up on the web. So far the important Transactions series, dating from 1881 to 1980 have all been digitized. This is an important resource on the web for students, both k-12 and university, researchers and the general reader. Almost any topic in Manitoba history has been covered in the Transactions. Many famous Manitobans from John Christian Schultz to Francis Beynon and W.L. Morton published work in the Transactions. See it at http://www.mhs.mb.ca/info/pubs/transactions.shtml

The History Grad Students' Book Pub is now scheduled for Friday April 23 at Louis. As before, the doors will open at 7:00 pm and the auction will start at 7:30. We've had so many donations of books this year that we can't possibly auction them all so besides having the regular auction we will also be selling the books that are not in the auction for 50 cents for paperbacks and $1.00 for hardcovers. So people may want to come at 7:00 to buy some of the books that are for sale and check out the auction lots before we start the auction.

Attention History Honours Students. Did you know that the the Kathleen R. McKenzie Scholarship of roughly $1700 is awarded annually to the student with the highest cumulative percentage average in all courses who is entering the fourth year of an Honours program in History? Oh, yeah. You betcha. Selection is made by the Department of History. But you must apply to be considered for this award. So, if your grades are there or thereabouts be sure to fill out the simple, short application form: you never know who won't! The deadline is April 30th. Application forms are available in the bin attached to the wall by the door to the mail room, or print your own right here at: http://www.usask.ca/history/undergrad_awards_mckenzie.shtml.

A reminder that the library trial for the online resource Empire Online: Cultural Contacts, 1492-1969 ends April 15, 2004 . The site enables faculty, graduate, and undergradute students to examine "cultural contacts throughout five centuries of Empire, from Columbus to decolonisation, [drawing] upon manuscript sources such as the diaries and eyewitness accounts of European travellers, correspondence and periodical literature." See it here at http://library.usask.ca/eresources/trials/trials.htm#eicc.

The University of Regina and University of Saskatchewan HISTORY GRADUATE STUDENTS' CONFERENCE will be held on Friday, 30 April, 4.00 pm - Saturday, 1 May, 4.00 pm at the Park Town Hotel in Saskatoon. This event will feature presentations by Masters and Doctoral Candidates in History from the U of R and the U of S on a wide range of historical subjects. Professor Bill Waiser will deliver the keynote address on Friday, 30 April entitled, "Looking back at Looking Back: doing Saskatchewan history on television." All are welcome to attend and are encouraged to register for this event before 16 April, 2004. Registration is $40, though there are cheaper options depending on your dining preferences. The registration form is available in the History Department mail room, or direct from Jennifer Hamel at jenniferxhamel@yahoo.ca. Forms and cheques made out to "Department of History, University of Saskatchewan" should be placed in Jennifer's mailbox on the 7th floor.

MIT's OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. Instuctors developing courses may find these materials especially interesting. There is an OCW unit for History, with a wide range of courses on offer. See http://ocw.mit.edu/.

The Library of Congress has announced the release of the online collection A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers, available on the Library's American Memory Web site, at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/.

MALVINE is an online search service for post-medieval manuscripts hosted by the Berlin State Library and maintained by a European consortium of libraries, archives, and museums. MALVINE provides details on the nature and location of manuscripts held by a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. See it at http://www.malvine.org/.

If you wish to offer condolences to Denise De Brou and to Norma, Bruce, Audrey, and grandson Tyson, you can write to park@arbormemorial.com.

If you were a student or colleague or friend of Dave's and would like to share your memories of him, please e-mail desbrisay@usask.ca and we will post them on the department web site, on the Memories of Dave page.

Astonishing as it is to have to report this, the arrangements for the funeral of our dear friend Dave De Brou are as follows:

Funeral:
10 a.m. Monday April 5th
St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church
1902 Munroe Ave. (Taylor and Munroe)
Reception to follow in the school gym.

Any of Dave's students who care to attend will be especially welcome.

Interment later in the afternoon at Woodlawn Cemetary
(1502 - 2nd Ave. N.)

Dear Friends,
It is with great regret that I inform you that our colleague and friend, Dr. Dave De Brou, a Professor of History, passed away this morning. He collapsed while out exercising and could not be revived. Dave has been a wonderful colleague and a great citizen of this university for many years. In his work as teacher, scholar, committee member and Department Head, he devoted an enormous amount of time and energy to the University of Saskatchewan. For those of us who worked most closely with him, we cherish his enthusiasm for our scholarship, his decency and his commitment to the ideals of university instruction and scholarship. He will be greatly missed. I will be in contact with you later with additional information.
Yours truly,
Dr. Ken Coates
Professor of History
Dean, College of Arts and Science
University of Saskatchewan

CANCELLED: The History Grad Student Book Pub scheduled for this Friday (April 2) has been cancelled in light of Dave De Brou's tragic death.

CMRS Colloquium: Frank Klaassen will speak on "Agrippa, Magic, and the Gifts of the Spirit(s)?" on Thursday, April 1, at STM Room 344B (a.k.a. the Chelsea Lounge). Agrippa was the most colourful and influential occultist of the 16th century, but did he or did he not pack in the occult for Pauline spirituality? Refreshments at 4, talk at 4:30. Everyone welcome. THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED.

The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the Scottish National Dictionary (SND). DOST contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries (Older Scots); and SND contains information about Scots words in use from the eighteenth century to the present day (modern Scots). These are the most comprehensive dictionaries available for, respectively, Older Scots and modern Scots, and are therefore essential research tools for anyone interested in the history of either Scots or English language, and for historical or literary scholars whose sources are written in Scots or may contain Scots usages. See it here.

The U of S library now offers ANNO (Austrian Newspapers Online), a portal to historical journals, periodicals and newspapers published in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria from 1808 to 1938. See it here.

The library now offers Early Encounters in North America on a permanent basis, a full text collection of (re-keyed) primary documents related to early encounters of North American Indian, European, American, and African peoples and cultures in North America, as well as descriptions of the natural features of North America at the time. The documents include letters, diaries, memoirs, accounts of early encounters, as well as images. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico. U of S users can see it here.

Gutenberg online. A website allowing scholars, historians and anyone interested in the history and significance of printing to explore in detail the British Library's rare copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the oldest surviving printed book produced in the Western World, has be launched. On the site you will find digital images of the entire text of the Library's two copies of Johann Gutenberg's Bible, the first book to be printed using the technique of printing which Gutenberg invented in the 1450s. See it here.

Hildafest is almost upon us! The two-day conference celebrating the work and world of Hilda Neatby will be held at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Friday and Saturday March 26-27, 2004. Click here for details.

The library's free trial of ProQuest Historical Newspapers has been extended until March 31st. The service offers full text and images of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times from the nineteenth century forward. For details click here.

USSU Teaching Awards. The History Department has garnered two of eleven University of Saskatchewan Student’s Union Teaching Excellence Awards for 2003-4, and had no less than seven instructors nominated. Sharon Wright (History 213.6, Medieval England, 1000-1460) and Gordon DesBrisay (History 340.3, Early Modern Towns in Britain and Europe, 1500-1750) will receive their awards at a March 30th banquet. Clay Burlingham, Jack Coggins, Maureen Lux, John McCannon (though ineligible to win on account of winning last year), and Mark Meyers were also nominated by their students.

As previously noted, Lisa Smith's article 'Reassessing the Role of the Family: Women's Medicine Care in Eighteenth-century England' has just appeared in The Social History of Medicine 16, 3 (2003): 327-342. U of S library users can now access the article directly from the publisher (Oxford University Press). See for yourself at http://www3.oup.co.uk/sochis/hdb/Volume_16/Issue_03/.

The library has arranged for a free trial of Palmer's Full Text Online, which contains the Index to The Times® of London from October 1790 to December 1905. At present the database includes full indexes for 1790-1905, and page images for 1800-1870.

In the fabulous news department, the University Library is now a subscriber to Early English Books Online [EEBO] and has become a participant in the EEBO Text Creation Partnership. EEBO is an accessible full-text collection of Early English works, including about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in the Pollard and Redgrave Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), also known as STCI, and the Wing Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), also known as STCII, and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. In addition to becoming subscribers to EEBO, the University of Saskatchewan Library has joined the EEBO Text Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP) co-ordinated by the Universities of Michigan and Oxford. This initiative will create searchable, ASCII full-text versions of 25,000 EEBO documents, and participants in the partnership can access the full text of completed documents through the EEBO interface. This is a Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries consortial license. EEBO is now listed on the History Databases page under "Major Databases", and is available to all U of S folk. Check it out at http://library.usask.ca/subjects/hist.html.

HUSA will sponsor a screening of "Lucie Aubrac", a film by Claude Berri, on Thursday, March 25 at 6:30pm in Arts 134. Carole Bouquet stars as a heroine of the French resistance during World War II. Her husband Raymond (Daniel Auteuil) is a resistance fighter who helps sabotage Nazi trains. He and some compatriots are arrested, but Lucie secures his release and enables them to fulfill their oath to spend every May 14 together, the anniversary of the first night they made love. The arrest of a resistance leader causes divisions; a meeting called to resolve them is raided, and Raymond is arrested again and sentenced to death. With steely determination, Lucie plots to rescue him. The film will be introduced by M.Meyers, admission is free, and everyone is welcome.

History honours student Jennifer Gilchrist has just been accepted into the MA program at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She will start the one year program in September. Congratulations, Jennifer!

Thanks to our hard-working friends at the Library's Technical Services and ITS Departments, the Library Catalogue now contains individual title records for each of the1292 titles contained within in the EARLY ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS microfilm collection. The Library holds the complete Early English Newspapers Collection on microfilm in 132 Units (approximately 50 reels per Unit). The collection contains 17th and 18th century English newspapers from the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Among the titles in this collection are: British Journal, Daily Courant, Daily Gazetteer, Daily Post, Evening Post, General Advertiser, Lloyd's Evening Post and British Chronicle, London Chronicle, London Evening Post, London Gazette, Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, St James' Chronicle or, British Evening Post, Whitehall Evening Post, and London Intelligencer. Our collection was completed over the twenty-year period from1983-2003, primarily with funding from the Murray Bequest left by our former colleague Jean Murray, and the Library Endowment Fund.

Congratulations to Kyle Jantzen (PhD, McGill; BA hons, MA, and former sessional instructor at the U of S), who is now Associate Professor of History and Program Head for the Bachelor of Arts in History at the new Alliance University College in Calgary (www.auc-nuc.ca). His most recent publication is “National Socialism as a Force for German Protestant Renewal?: Pastors and Parishioners Respond to Adolf Hitler’s ‘National Renewal’.” Pages 52-72 in Christian Responses to the Holocaust: Moral and Ethical Issues, edited by Donald Dietrich. (Syracuse University Press, 2003). Kyle sends greetings to all his former professors, colleagues and students in the history department, and can be reached at kjantzen@auc-nuc.ca.

Tracene Harvey (MA 2002), currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alberta, has just been awarded a place at the prestigious American Numismatic Society Seminar at New York City's American Numismatic Society Museum. The two-month appointment features an intensive round of lectures and seminars presented by leading specialists in the field. Only six grad students a year are admitted from across North America. Congratulations, Tracene!

The Departments of English, History & CMRS, and St. Thomas More College present: “Fighting and Flyting in Medieval Scotland”, a talk by Professor Elizabeth Ewan (University of Guelph) on Friday, March 12, from 2:30-3:20 in STM 344B (a.k.a. the Chelsea Lounge). Everyone Welcome, Reception to Follow.

Change of plan. The grad student Book Pub will now be held on Friday, April 2 at 7:00 in a private room at Louis'. Donations should still be made in the boxes set out by the window in the mail room.

John Porter's article, "Aristophanes, Acharnians 1118-21" has just appeared in volume 51 of the journal Greece and Rome. Professor Porter argues for the comic use of the actor's stage phallus in the scene and examines the difficulties entailed in reconstructing the stage action of ancient comic -- as opposed to tragic -- texts. U of S folk can read the article at http://80-www3.oup.co.uk.cyber.usask.ca/gromej/current/pdf/510021.pdf.

The Archives Hub provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. The hub can be searched according to place, subject, surname, etc., and can turn up collections on all manner of materials deposited in British university archives, from the papers of Sir Isaac Newton, to a 1791 journal belonging to a ship's surgeon on an Aberdeen whaling vessel, to the Winston Churchill Antarctic correspondence collection. Check out the hub at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/about.shtml.