Book Review

Is our conception of history education “evolving” or is today’s focus simply a historical trend once again in vogue?

April 20, 2012

This is the first of four blog posts originally posted on THEN/HiER’s Teaching the Past blog reviewing the edited collection New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada (UBC Press) and responding to the question: “Is our conception of history education “evolving” or is today’s focus simply a historical trend once again in vogue?”

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The People’s Citizenship Guide

February 13, 2012

A short review of the People’s Citizenship Guide on the eve of its Winnipeg launch on February 13th 2012.

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New book review: Reynolds on Spooner’s Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64.

January 18, 2012

Today we are publishing ActiveHistory.ca’s tenth book review. This month Ken Reynolds, an historian with the Department of National Defence, reviews Kevin Spooner’s recent book about Canadian peacekeeping in the Congo: Notes prepared for Prime Minister John Diefenbaker’s attendance at a Commonwealth conference in March 1961 summed up Canada’s position on Africa, noting that Canada [...]

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New Book Review: Faulkner on Carroll’s Pearson’s Peacekeepers

October 20, 2011

New book review: Liam A. Faulkner reviews Michael K. Carroll’s Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67.

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