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Alan MacEachern, A Polyphony of Synthesizers: Why Every Historian of Canada Should Write a History of Canada [History in Practice] (January, 2012)
Fred Burrill, Engagement and Struggle: A Response to Stuart Henderson [History in Practice, Education] (September, 2011)
Christine Grandy, Education for Sale: The Culture Industry and the Crisis in University Education [History in Practice, Education] (July, 2011)
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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