Popular culture serves as an easy way to capitalize on students’ everyday experience. Music can teach about the past in at least seven overlapping ways.
What can the past teach us about First Nations’ education?
As an historian of the eighteenth century studying Aboriginal engagement with European forms of higher education, modern-day statistics on First Nations education are startling.
Museum Closures, Heritage and Cultivating a Sense of Place in Toronto
If places have the power to shape our self-perception and how we situate ourselves in the world, as Basso and others have suggested, how has the uneven distribution of historical places influenced the culture and politics of Canada’s largest city?
The Return of the History Wars
Despite being declared over by many historians, the debates of the History Wars – where social and cultural history was pitted against political and economic history – have returned to public discourse in Canada.
Stepping into the Past: Everyday Places that Awaken the Historical Imagination
As summer days begin to wane, we explore some of the everyday places that challenge us to think more deeply about the past. Got a place to add? Send us a message and we will add it to this post!
Renaming Schools: A sign of a society in dialogue with its past
The Halifax Regional School Board’s decision to rename Cornwallis Junior High fits into a long Nova Scotian tradition of changing names with evolving social and political conditions in Nova Scotia.
Building Digital Literacy and the University Curriculum
Where does digital literacy fit in the university curriculum and how should it be taught?
Strengthening Community through Digitized Local History
The Black Creek Living History project is a great example of how community history can be told over the internet.
Remembering Francis: Sharing life and sharing the past
Over the past five years I have spent many Friday afternoons with Francis and the Club at L’Arche Daybreak in Richmond Hill. Daybreak is a community that focuses on sharing life with people with different gifts and abilities; at its heart are men and women with intellectual disabilities. On Friday afternoons at the Club, a program for retirees, we often gather around the television screen to look at old community photographs. The members of the Club tell me stories about their past experiences, and I annotate the images in a digital database with the names of the people in the picture and the stories associated with them.
Hands-on History: Are the archaeologists leading the way to a new mode of public engagement?
Are the archaeologists leading the way to a new mode of public engagement? A discussion and comparison of public archaeology and history.
