Practicing Active History

Toronto: A Proud Union City

September 6, 2010

This post discusses Labour Day walking tours.

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Integrating History and Fashion: an interview with Dorothy Grant

August 11, 2010

Brittany Luby interviews fashion designer Dorothy Grant on the intersections of history, fashion, art and culture.

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Learning about Teaching Canadian Rural History at Black Creek Pioneer Village

June 21, 2010

This post re-caps the inaugural event in the Approaching the Past workshop series, which is co-sponsored by ActiveHistory.ca. It discusses what we did at the workshop, and hopefully helps people learn some teaching tips.

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Active History Announcements: June 13-19

June 12, 2010

The following upcoming events may be of interest to our readers (click on ‘continue reading’ below for full descriptions):

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Conversation, Contradiction and Conflict in ‘The Historical Present’

May 17, 2010

The practice of history, however, is not a zero sum game in which historians can isolate themselves from outside influences. The research, writing and teaching of academic, policy-oriented, and popular history are deeply political, social and ideological pursuits. Whether historical research is intended to ‘add value’ or ‘make an impact’ is only one component of many that shape historical perspective.

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Want to Write With Us? We’re Looking for More Bloggers!

May 16, 2010

ActiveHistory.Ca puts out a Call for Bloggers, as we seek to expand our circle of regular contributors.

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A Class Project for the People

May 11, 2010

As an undergraduate history student, I wrote a lot of essays and exams meant only for my professor’s eyes. Despite the tremendous effort that went into crafting these works, they now exist only as PDFs on my personal computer where I secretly hope some future historian will find them and be fascinated by my analysis [...]

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One year of ActiveHistory.ca

April 18, 2010

April marks the one-year anniversary of this website. The steering committee of ActiveHistory.ca recently discussed the challenges and successes we have faced in our attempt over the past year to bridge the work of historians with a wider audience at Activism and the Academy: Struggles Against Hegemony, a two-day conference organized by the Graduate Women’s [...]

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Street History

April 5, 2010

Often the public face of history is seen in museums or government issued historical plaques; but important historical narratives also exist outside of these structures, and they often tell stories that otherwise remain obscure or hidden by more official ways of historical story telling. I call this way of sharing the past street history.

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Book Review Section Launched

March 29, 2010

Our new book review section launches today with the publication of our first review. John Horn, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Gumboot, a community blog out of Vancouver, has reviewed Craig Heron’s Booze: A Distilled History. Please check out his fun review. Our book reviews will have community members and involved citizens reviewing academic works. We [...]

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