Posts Tagged ‘Knowledge Mobilization’

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.
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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: HistoireEngagee.ca.

Larry A. Glassford, Citizenship Literacy and National Self-identity: The Historical Impact of Curriculum and Textbooks in Shaping the Character of Ontario, [Education] [Nationalism] (March 2010)

Yves Montenay, Why is Vietnam Recovering, while Cuba is Sinking?, [International] (January 2010)

David Webster, Narratives of Colonization, Decolonization and Recolonization in Papua [International, Nationalism] (January 2010)

Gérard-François Dumont, The Berlin Wall: Life, Death and the Spatial Heritage of Berlin [International, Urban history] (November 2009)

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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.