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Promises, Prospects and Pitfalls of Digital Memory

Technology has created an abundance of new mediums for storing historical documents. Challenges arise for the historian over issues of organization and accessibility. Historians and the interpretation of history are still crucial in a world ruled by digital memory.

Storytelling Matters: Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University

This is a blog post looking at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University, introducing readers to the resources available there.

Infrastructure History: Connecting us to the Past

Recent articles in Toronto newspapers on burst watermains suggest that we seek connections between infrastructure and the past when such infrastructures fail.