Teaching History

Public History: Skills and Opportunities

December 8, 2011

By Jo McCutcheon Thinking about my work as a public historian and some of the recent and on-going discussions about training in history generally and doctoral training specifically have made me think about the skills and opportunities I try to provide to both students and professional consulting researchers.[1] Mixing academic teaching with entrepreneurialism has given [...]

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Announcement: Approaching the Past Workshop

November 27, 2011

Approaching the Past Workshop being held Nov. 29th at the Zion Schoolhouse in Toronto.

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Connecting Past, Present and Future: A Website Review of Stacey Zembrycki’s “Sharing Authority With Baba”

October 31, 2011

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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Tangible History: Artifacts as Gateways to the Past

October 26, 2011

When someone talks about undertaking serious historical research what comes to mind? Perhaps you conjure up an image of a dusty archives room and leaning towers of paper. Census data, photographs, journals, correspondence, business records, and many other traditional archival materials may come to mind as potential sources. Did the phrase historical research make you [...]

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Teacher-Students and Student-Historians: Discovering Constance Margaret Austin and the Value of Experiential Learning with Spadina Museum

October 18, 2011

Discovering Constance Margaret Austin and the Value of Experiential Learning with Spadina Museum

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New Paper: “Engagement and Struggle: A Response to Stuart Henderson”

September 13, 2011

By Fred Burrill, Concordia University “The monster they’ve engendered in me will return to torment its maker, from the grave, the pit, the profoundest pit. Hurl me into the next existence, the descent into hell won’t turn me. I’ll crawl back to dog his trail forever.” (George Jackson—Soledad Brother, Black Panther, movement martyr) The importance [...]

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Education for Sale: The Culture Industry and the Crisis in University Education

July 12, 2011

Britain’s investment in post-secondary education was, not unlike Canada’s, a post-war phenomenon that saw university education entrenched firmly within the public sector as part of the new welfare state. Since then, we’ve seen Britain move from largely free university education after World War II to the imposition of moderate tuition fees in 1998 and then to the current tripling of that figure to 9,000£.

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Avoiding Chaos: Conference and Workshop Planning

June 29, 2011

Acting as the host institution for a conference or workshops can be both a blessing and a curse. Host organizations often experience increased interaction with participants and gain publicity in their local community. Hosting a conference or workshop takes considerable effort and planning and can place strain on regular staff and use up time and [...]

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The Rise and Fall of Ideas: Having fun with Google N-Grams

May 23, 2011

We need to make sense of large quantities of information in order to do ‘big history’ and provide a context into which we can write our smaller studies. In this post, I’ll tell you what an ngram is, show some cool pictures, and hopefully drive you to have some fun with this.

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Fun Camp for Adult Researchers: Reading Artifacts at the Canada Science and Technology Museum

May 17, 2011

By Ioana Teodorescu You may have heard of it. Or not. Its official title is Reading Artifacts Summer Institute at Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa and this is the third year when it happens. Jaipreet Virdi gave it a serious review in June last year on this very blog and I totally agree with [...]

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