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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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Two independent courses that would use education to redefine traditionally "colonial archives" shekonneechie.ca/2024/10/11/two…

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"Brandt’s ā€œa day after Hitler came to powerā€ resonates down to the present as a warning against allowing ā€œgangstersā€ a single day of national dictatorship or a single hour of organized violence." E.A. Heaman's essay is live. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/10/1…

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Our website got a long overdue makeover. The new layout is easier to navigate and, if we may say, looks much nicer. 😊 pchp-phlc.ca

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Thrilled to announce the CFP for our newest NiCHE series! Historicizing Adaptation Proposal deadline: 29 November 2024 Editor: S Stunden Bower "Prospective authors are encouraged to consider what adaptation has meant in the past ..." niche-canada.org/2024/10/16/cal… #envhist

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Augustana Indigenous Speaker Series is back! Join Dr. Kim TallBear for her presentation: Self-Indigenization, Whiteness and Genocide. In this presentation, Dr. Tallbear will explore the reasons why settler-state citizens self-identify as Indigenous without Indigenous nation

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The Movimento PerpĆ©tuo exhibition is at Scott Library York University Libraries Everyone is welcomed any day of the week, 8am to 11pm, until November 10. The exhibition features a sample of the PCHP’s historical records in our collections at YorkU Archives & Special Collections pchp-phlc.ca/2024/10/16/the…

The Movimento PerpƩtuo exhibition is at Scott Library
<a href="/yorkulibraries/">York University Libraries</a> Everyone is welcomed any day of the week, 8am to 11pm, until November 10. The exhibition features a sample of the PCHP’s historical records in our collections at <a href="/yorkuASC/">YorkU Archives & Special Collections</a> 
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The 2nd Edition of Jennifer Bonnell's Reclaiming the Don is coming out with University of Toronto Press! Revisit the process that brought this project from dissertation to book in Episode 54 of Nature’s Past Podcast with Sean Kheraj. niche-canada.org/2016/09/28/nat… #envhist #cdnhist #writing

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Congratulations to Jennifer Bonnell 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: activehistory.ca/blog/2010/10/2…

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"My collections would, perhaps, better be termed a ā€œpackā€ and a ā€œherdā€; the ā€œcollectionsā€ that both inform and provide respite from my research are my four dogs and my small flock of sheep." RenĆ©e Worringer's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/10/2…

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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." activehistory.ca/blog/2024/10/3…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

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We have a new episode today over ActiveHistory.ca as Sean Graham talks with Molly Miowak Guise, author of Alaska Native Resilience, about the book and local communities' response to the Aleutian campaigns during the Second World War #podcast activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/0…

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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." Sean Carleton's post is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…

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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. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/11/1…