Regional History

ActiveHistory.ca is a website intended to help connect historians with the public, policy makers and the media. We publish short papers by historians on a wide range of topics and blog posts on historians that engage with the internet and the public sphere.
Please support this website by joining our database and submitting a paper.

ActiveHistory.ca est un nouveau site Internet cherchant à rapprocher les historiens du public, des décideurs politiques et des médias. Nous publions de courts essais sur une variété des sujets et des blogues sur l’engagement des historiens dans l'internet et dans la sphère publique.

Un site partenaire francophone a vu le jour et devrait se bonifier avec le temps:

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)

ActiveHistory.ca is supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian History, and York University.
ActiveHistory.ca is an effort to facilitate and disseminate the ideas developed at the conference "Active History: History for the Future" at Glendon College in September 2008.