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What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
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"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind.". Mack Penner's essay is live today.
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To the extent that we as historians accept as settled the first order questions about AI and instead opt to talk about nuanced details of implementation, I think we risk a very serious mistake. Her…
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"Humans, privileging the works of social historians, challenges many long-accepted conclusions about various historical eras that traditional global histories have kept alive.". Alvin Finkel provides a peek at his new book in today's post.
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Alvin Finkel Since the 1970s the proliferation of social histories has challenged once-dominant historical paradigms focused narrowly on elites and ignoring or diminishing women, colonized peoples,…
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Laura Madokoro's class on History in the News has been particularly challenging this year. Read on for Laura's reflections.
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Newspapers from publishers ready for mailing. Credit: Post Office / Library and Archives Canada / PA-059949. Laura Madokoro For the past two years, I have had the great pleasure of teaching a cours…
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"Since the release of the TRC’s Final Report, denialists feel that they have lost control of the narrative and [. ] seek to distort, downplay, and discredit established historical truths to try and regain control.".@SeanCarleton's post is live today.
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One problem is that those engaging in Indian Residential School denialism understand the important role that truth-telling about the past has on social change. If establishing the truth is, as the …
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If you want to read more of Kathryn's work, check our this Active History post!
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Kathryn Hughes In 1989, the popular Canadian women’s health magazine Healthsharing published an article entitled “Shots in the Dark: The Risk of Infant Vaccination”. Echoing the anti-vaccine moveme…
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"The contradiction at the centre of the American experiment is the contradiction between the promise of freedom and equality and the reality of racism and nativism.".Donald Wright's essay is live.
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Donald Wright Nov 8, 1962; Nashville, TN, USA; Picketers, calling for an end to segregation in places of public accommodation, demonstrated during Nashville City Council meeting Nov. 8, 1962. One o…
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RT @WhatsOldIsNews: We have a new episode today over @ActiveHist as @theseangraham talks with Molly Miowak Guise, author of Alaska Native R….
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By Sean Graham This week, I talk with Holly Miowak Guise, author of Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II. We talk about the lived memory of the Second World War in Alaska, the America…
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"After recording the first of many oral histories with Joey Hollingworth in February 2022 [. ] I felt an urgency to preserve his story. He spoke with humor and details as smooth and precise as his tap.".Zahra McDoom's essay is live today.
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Photos are from Joey Hollingsworth’s personal collection. Photo with drum by Roy Kumano. Photo with sunglasses by Zahra McDoom. Joey Hollingsworth (b. 1936) is a tap dancer, creative force and one …
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"Styled as a male mouthpiece for the Liberal Party, and aimed primarily at the heterosexual male reader, [The Spokesman] presented the worlds of work (outside the home) and politics as male.". Daniel R. Meister's essay is live.
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Draft of The Spokesman, Charles McElman fonds (MC2988), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. On 21 October 2024, New Brunswickers elected Susan Holt as their premier, the first female to hold that…
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"The wolf is everywhere in human societies’ consciousness. In fact, humans have such a deep connection to wolves that they have never been able to live without the wolf in some form, whether positive or negative, imaginary or real.".
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The wiping out of wolves had a spiritual mission to resist evil, as well as political, economic, and national intentions.
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"My collections would, perhaps, better be termed a “pack” and a “herd”; the “collections” that both inform and provide respite from my research are my four dogs and my small flock of sheep.".Renée Worringer's essay is live today.
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Herding dog behaviors originated from the hunting instincts of a wolf pack to chase, surround, and kill their prey. The human shepherd was able to redirect and utilize these instincts for their own…
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Congratulations to @JennBonnell on the 2nd edition of Reclaiming the Don! If you want to hear one of Dr. Bonnell's talks about the Don River Valley you can listen here:
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Historian Jennifer Bonnell recently gave a talk called “Isolating Undesirables: Prisons, Pollution and Homelessness in Toronto’s Don River Valley, 1860-1932” at the Berndale branc…
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RT @NiCHE_Canada: The 2nd Edition of @JennBonnell's Reclaiming the Don is coming out with @utpress! . Revisit the process that brought this….
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In this episode Dr. Bonnell spoke with me about her journey from dissertation to book.
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RT @PCHP_PHLC: The Movimento Perpétuo exhibition is at Scott Library.@yorkulibraries Everyone is welcomed any day of the week, 8am to 11pm,….
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RT @UANativeStudies: Augustana Indigenous Speaker Series is back! . Join Dr. Kim TallBear for her presentation: Self-Indigenization, Whiten….
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RT @PCHP_PHLC: Our website got a long overdue makeover. The new layout is easier to navigate and, if we may say, looks much nicer. 😊.https:….
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Preserving, exploring, and sharing Portuguese Canadian history
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RT @NiCHE_Canada: Thrilled to announce the CFP for our newest NiCHE series!. Historicizing Adaptation.Proposal deadline: 29 November 2024.E….
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Authors are particularly invited to consider how adaptation has functioned alongside resistance, potentially serving as a technique of refusal, rebellion, or resurgence.
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"Brandt’s “a day after Hitler came to power” resonates down to the present as a warning against allowing “gangsters” a single day of national dictatorship or a single hour of organized violence." E.A. Heaman's essay is live.
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By E.A. Heaman It’s American election time again and, once again, everyone has an opinion on whether this is just another election or whether rule of law is seriously under threat. Donald Trump has…
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RT @ShekonNeechie: Two independent courses that would use education to redefine traditionally "colonial archives".
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Mary Jane Logan McCallum (University of Winnipeg) and Cody Groat (Western University) Amy Lonetree writes in her book Decolonizing Museums (2012), “Museums can be very painful sites for Native peop…
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