June 2010

“When People Eat Chocolate, They Are Eating My Flesh”: Slavery and the Dark Side of Chocolate

June 30, 2010

Whether it’s a Mars, Cadbury, Hershey, Nestle or Snickers chocolate bar, most of us relish biting into one of life’s most tasty, cheap indulgences: chocolate.

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Tuning into Canadian History

June 28, 2010

This Canada Day, before the beers, the barbeque and the fireworks, make a little time to turn on the radio (or your computer) and learn something that you may not have known about Canadian history. Beginning 1 July 2010, CJSW 90.9 FM Radio in Calgary will begin airing its year long series “Today in Canadian [...]

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Active History Announcements: June 27 – July 3

June 26, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers:

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International Museum Day at the Canadian Museum of Civilization – May 18th, 2010

June 24, 2010

Since 1977, International Museum Day has taken place across the world on, or around, the 18th of May. This day is meant raise public awareness towards some of the daily challenges that museums face and allows members of the public a glimpse into the way a museum operates. Each year the International Council of Museums (ICOM) [...]

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Giving voice to history

June 22, 2010

by Laura Madokoro Last week, the first event by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools was held in Winnipeg. In the same week, British Prime Minister David Cameron issued an apology on behalf of the British government for the “unjustified and unjustifiable” killings of thirteen people in Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1972 – [...]

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Learning about Teaching Canadian Rural History at Black Creek Pioneer Village

June 21, 2010

This post re-caps the inaugural event in the Approaching the Past workshop series, which is co-sponsored by ActiveHistory.ca. It discusses what we did at the workshop, and hopefully helps people learn some teaching tips.

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Active History Announcements: June 20-26

June 19, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers (click on ‘continue reading’ below for full descriptions):

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Scientific Instruments as “a History with, of, and Through Things”*

June 17, 2010

The “Reading Artifacts: Summer Institute in Material Culture Research” at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is another symptom of the growing trend in history and philosophy of science studies to include scientific artifacts as a resource for historical investigation and argumentation. In Leviathan and the Air Pump, Shapin and Schaffer argued scientific instruments are [...]

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Colborne Street Breakdown II: Demolition and Community History

June 15, 2010

Colborne Street is the historic downtown of Brantford and by many accounts this stretch of buildings represents the longest stretch of pre-Confederation buildings remaining Canada, but Tuesday June 8th was a dark day for history, heritage and the city of Brantford.

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The possibilities of digital media and print publication

June 13, 2010

The use of new digital media in conjunction with conventional print publication is one of the many important contributions that Joy Parr’s recent Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (2010, UBC Press) makes to our understanding of the past.  The book examines how Canadians living in environments affected by megaprojects built after the [...]

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