February 2011

Quite the World, Isn’t It? Why Wisconsin Matters to All of Us

February 28, 2011

It’s one thing for a political leader to take a principled stance against the power of public employee unions in state and local politics. It’s another thing entirely when you threaten to unleash a military force against them. And in raising the specter of calling out the National Guard in a possible showdown with public employees in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker has touched one of the most painful scars in American labor history.

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March 10th Public Lecture: “A Brief History of Canadian Utopias: Is There a Canadian Utopian Tradition?”

February 27, 2011

A reminder to our readers that you are all invited to the inaugural lecture in the Mississauga Library System’s ‘History Minds’ series, co-hosted with ActiveHistory.ca. The first talk will be on Thursday, March 10th at 7:30PM in Classroom 3 at the Mississauga Central Library (see below the cut for directions).

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Want to Write With Us? We’re Looking for More Bloggers!

February 26, 2011

ActiveHistory.Ca puts out a Call for Bloggers, as we seek to expand our circle of regular contributors.

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Call for Papers – History on the Grand: People and Place, Local and Public History Symposium

February 24, 2011

The City of Cambridge Archives Board invites you to join them on Saturday October 22, 2011 for History on the Grand, a one day local history symposium being held at Cambridge’s City Hall in Downtown Cambridge Ontario.

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New Book Review: Gord Barnes on Ken Leyton-Brown’s The Practice of Execution in Canada

February 23, 2011

Today, our sixth book review by somebody from outside of academia of a book written by a professional historian. Amnesty International volunteer, activist and fieldworker Gord Barnes, from Regina, SK, reviews Ken Leyton-Brown’s The Practice of Execution in Canada.

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Step by Step: Zotero

February 22, 2011

In this post, I’ll explain to students how to install Zotero on their home computers. As a teaching assistant, I’ve found this to be the most useful technological skill that I’ve taught undergraduates – many have confirmed this by noting how they now use it.

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Canadian petition to save the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security

February 18, 2011

Please sign the petition to save the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security.

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The Revolution Will Be Rubbernecked

February 16, 2011

While the recent protest movements in the Middle East reveal much about the present state of civic community among the people of those nations — Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt (and a growing list of others) — our reaction to them reveals more about ourselves than we should perhaps find flattering.

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Buy Domestic, Buy Local, Buy Union? Historical Lessons for Today’s Consumer Activists

February 14, 2011

A look at some of the problems with current consumer activist campaigns and some lessons we can learn from the past.

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Call for Proposals: “Philanthropy and the Environment”

February 13, 2011

The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) invites proposals for a week-long workshop on “Philanthropy and the Environment” to be held in May 2011 at its location in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Proposals are invited from scholars from across a variety of disciplines and in various stages of their career, from post-comp grad students to junior or senior [...]

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