April 2011

History in Turbulent Times

April 27, 2011

Can we heal Canada’s colonial history?

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New Papers: So What Is the Story? Exploring Fragmentation and Synthesis in Current Canadian Historiography

April 26, 2011

The editors of ActiveHistory.ca are proud to present a round table on the current state of Canadian History writing and teaching by Ruth Sandwell, Lyle Dick, Peter Baskerville and Adele Perry. The round table includes an introduction by Sandwell and Dick and four short papers from the authors. Prologue The idea for this forum arose [...]

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Catastrophic Flooding: Manitoba’s Perennial Challenge

April 25, 2011

This originally appeared on the Network in Canadian History and Environment [NiCHE] group blog, Nature’s Chroniclers. Shannon Stunden Bower’s given us permission to repost it here. Southern Manitoba has flooded. Again. Given the large number of notable floods that have occurred in the past few years, this must be a surprise to precisely no one, [...]

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Eating Animals: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

April 20, 2011

Is it okay to eat some animals?

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New Paper: Geoffrey Reaume on Psychiatric Patient Built Wall Tours at Toronto’s CAMH

April 19, 2011

Professor Geoffrey Reaume of York University’s piece on the successful wall tours he has been running at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) appears on ActiveHistory.ca today. Professor Reaume’s piece previously appeared in the Active History theme issue of Left History and we are very happy to cross-publish it here.

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Canadian Political Leaders, the Campaign Trail, and the “Ordinary Joe”

April 18, 2011

As another federal election enters high gear, television screens and newspaper pages are filled with images of party leaders trying to show that they are ordinary Canadians. When did Canadian politicians begin to depict themselves as ordinary Canadians, not elite members of society?

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Modern slavery, environmental stress, and lingering international imperialism – unwinding the connections between intimately linked problems

April 15, 2011

There are critical connections between modern slavery, environment and imperialism.

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The Toronto Star’s Lackluster Coverage of the American Civil War Anniversary

April 14, 2011

By Matthew Furrow Let me tell you about a newspaper article I just read and what it taught me about history. Apparently, this week marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. (The war started because southern forces fired the first shot, although it’s not clear why). This is a “Big [...]

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Stories of Exile: Movie Review of “The Queen and I”

April 13, 2011

The Queen and I (2008), directed and produced by Swedish-Iranian filmmaker Nahid Persson Sarvestani, follows the former Empress of Iran, Farah Pahlavi and Sarvestani as they discuss their lives following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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New Paper: Matthew Hayday on “The History of the Recent”

April 12, 2011

Professor Matthew Hayday of the University of Guelph has written an evocative piece on some of the joys and potential pitfalls of engaging living activists in historical research. His piece, “The History of the Recent: Reflections on Social Movement History, Research Methods and the Rapid Passage of Time,” is a useful read for anybody interested in the connections between oral history, professional historians, social movements, and activists.

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