Internet sources can present challenges in the university classroom, but they also offer many new, exciting, creative learning opportunities. Rather than barring internet sources altogether, we should be teaching our students to engage critically with a range of sources, including the many great digital projects available online. One such example is Stacey Zembrycki’s website, “Sharing [...]
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P. Baskerville, L. Dick, A. Perry and R. Sandwell, ROUND TABLE: So What Is the Story? Exploring Fragmentation and Synthesis in Current Canadian Historiography [History in Practice] (April, 2011)
Geoffrey Reaume, Psychiatric Patient Built Wall Tours at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, 2000 – 2010 [History in Practice], [Medicine, Health Care, and Public Health] (April, 2011)
Matthew Hayday, The History of the Recent: Reflections on Social Movement History, Research Methods and the Rapid Passage of Time [History in Practice, Language, ethnicity and identity, Gender and sexuality] (April, 2011)
Stuart Henderson, Disappointment, Nihilism, and Engagement: Some Thoughts on Active History [History in Practice, Education] (March, 2011)
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