Just two historians who take their sources very seriously.

#Historians #Podcasters

L’IA pour l’histoire : succès, promesses, écueils

Numériser les archives, déchiffrer les manuscrits, constituer des bases de données… Les récents développements de l’intelligence artificielle et d’autres outils technologiques accompagnent la recherche scientifique historique. En quoi questionnent-ils aussi les principes mêmes de la recherche ?

France Culture
Heritage experts say this Water Street eyesore is the ideal site for an interpretation centre
Two historians want the provincial government to turn an unsightly piece of property next to the National War Memorial into an interpretation centre.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/war-memorial-interpretation-centre-9.7215504?cmp=rss
From conventional to avant-garde: 170 years of fine arts at Mount Allison
Art curators and historians have collaborated to document the illustrious history of fine arts education in small-town southeast New Brunswick.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mount-allison-fine-arts-book-9.7193076?cmp=rss
Are We Losing Our Minds to AI?

As AI becomes an active participant in our cognitive lives, the line between thought partner and substitute is becoming harder to maintain.

Time

"#Ladino is a historical #language of the #Sephardic #Jews, an amalgam of 15th-century #Spanish and other Romance languages. Traditionally written in #Hebrew characters, it is also influenced by Hebrew in vocabulary and structure. It was spoken by the Jews of #Spain, who took it with them when they were expelled from the country.

Once spoken across a thriving #diaspora that stretched across Southern #Europe, the #Balkans, #NorthAfrica, #Turkey and the #MiddleEast, Ladino is now considered endangered. Most native speakers are older than 60 and live primarily in #Israel. Estimates suggest only a few tens of thousands remain. One estimate pegged the number of speakers at 60,000 in 1994, and the number has trended downward since then. Many Ladino speakers were killed in the #Holocaust, and survivors were uprooted and adopted other languages.

#NesiAltaras, a #Turkish #Jewish #researcher at #Stanford, is one of a coterie of #historians..."

https://jweekly.com/2026/04/24/stanford-ladino-scholar-keeps-grip-on-fading-ottoman-jewish-world/

#Historians research, analyse, and catalogue past follies of humanity. Since the collective behaviour of humans is cyclic, the insight of the historians is a reliable predictor of humanity’s #future.

And when people do not heed the warnings of the historians, past mistakes recur, as can be observed throughout the whole world, at present.

Who was Sir Isaac Brock, and why does Carney have his statuette in the Prime Minister's Office?
Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned some Canadian historians over the weekend when he released a pointed video message about the U.S. featuring a War of 1812 general who led the charge against the American invaders of that era.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sir-isaac-brock-mark-carney-9.7170975?cmp=rss