Active History – History Matters
Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham. This week, I’m joined by Tonya Davidson, author of Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging.We discuss Tonya’s approach to monuments as a primary source, how publics respond to monuments, and how national monuments fit into local communities.
No One Killed Canadian History. It is time to move on
Jan 2, 2024 · By Thomas Peace. As we welcome 2024, it is time for Canadian historians to turn over a new leaf. The end of 2023 brought echoes of 2003. As the year wound to a close, some of our colleagues – mostly working outside of the university – began to pile on as they celebrated 25 years since Jack Granatstein published Who Killed Canadian History, a divisive book that shaped the so-called History ...
The Last Ten Years: Active History & the Teaching of Canadian …
Jan 10, 2020 · Editor’s Note: In 2019, Active History celebrated its 10th anniversary by posting some of our most popular pieces from each of the previous ten years. To reflect on ten years of Active Histor…
The Active History of Canada’s First World War: A Thematic Guide
Dec 6, 2019 · By Sarah Glassford and Nathan Smith. The “Canada’s First World War” series launched on ActiveHistory.ca with a Call for Blog Posts, published on 4 August 2014. It concluded in the Fall of 2019, with a total of 78 posts, including this post.
About - Active History
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s ...
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Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Author) B. Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967, reviewed by Ruthann LaBlance. Ian McKay and Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia, reviewed by Paul Bennett R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada, reviewed by ...
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca
Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, life on the home front, and commemoration today.
Canada’s First World War – Active History
By Eric Story, Brittany Dunn and Alexander Maavara Anniversaries invite reflection. Regardless of historians’ tendency to hastily dismiss commemorations or celebrations of the past as pesky purveyors of myth, these events nonetheless generate discussion––sometimes informed, other times less so––about history.
Looking at 1867 from 1967 and 2017 – Active History
Jul 11, 2016 · 6 thoughts on “ Looking at 1867 from 1967 and 2017 ” Sean Kheraj July 11, 2016 at 8:33 am. Christopher: It’s not yet 2017, but we are off to a fulsome start to thinking about Confederation and its long-term implications 150 years later.
Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future – Active History
Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Grant focused on K-12 history education in Canada. Led by Dr. Carla Peck at the University of Alberta, Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future aims to nurture a community of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral inquiry …