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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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The Return of the History Wars

October 11, 2011

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.

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Podcast: Ian McKay on the Right-Wing Reconceptualization of Canada

March 15, 2011

Ian McKay, professor of history at Queen’s University, recently delivered an engaging and provocative talk titled “The Empire Strikes Back: Militarism, Imperial Nostalgia, and the Right-Wing Reconceptualization of Canada”.  McKay’s talk was the keynote address of the 15th annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference at York University. The talk is available here for audio download. [...]

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Discover Canada: Historians respond to Canada’s new citizenship guide

November 17, 2009

The recent release of the primer for the Canadian citizenship test, Discover Canada: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship, has been met with much praise. Many historians, however, are not so laudatory.

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