Series @ ActiveHistory.ca: 2014-2015

As part of our summer hiatus, ActiveHistory.ca is featuring summaries of the papers and series we’ve run over the past year. Today, we provide a list of the series we’ve published since September 2014:

The Home Archivist (by Jess Dunkin) – Ongoing

• Introduction (September)
• The Grand Seduction (October)
• Getting my Hands Dirty (November)
• Dust, Mold and Adhesives – Part I (February)
• Dust, Mold and Adhesives – Part II (February)
• Making Arrangements (April)

Anishinaabeg in the War of 1812 (by Alan Corbiere)

• More than Tecumseh and his Indians (September)
• Mookomaanish: The Damn Knife (Odaawaa Chief and Warrior) (October)
• Jean Baptiste Assiginack: The Starling aka Blackbird
• Spoils of the War of 1812: Part I: The Importance of Michilimackinac (January)
• Spoils of the War of 1812: Part II: British Honour (February)
• Spoils of the War of 1812: Part III: Anishinaabe Aspirations (March)

200 Years of the Old Chieftain – January 2015

• Old Chieftain or Old Charlatan? Assessing Sir John’s Complex Legacy through Political Cartoons (Thomas Peace)
• John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion (Timothy Stanley)
• Birthing a Dominion (Christa Zellar Thomas)
• Old Tomorrow’s Bicentennial: Don’t Think Motivation, Think Law (James Daschuk)
• Epilogue: Critical Indigenous Reflections on Sir John A. Macdonald

Infectious Disease, Contagion and the History of Vaccines – March/April 2015

• Introduction (Jim Clifford, Erika Dyck, Ian Mosby)
• “Be Wise – Immunize!”: Vaccine Promotion in Canada During the 20th Century (Catherine Carstairs)
• Victory with Vaccines? A  Modified Account for the Twenty-first Century (Anne Hardy)
• Funding, failures, and faux pas: Vaccines and the complicated task of sharing responsibility for global health (Casey Hurrell)
• Bacille de Calmette-Guérin, or BCG Vaccine for Tuberculosis (Maureen Lux)
• Quarantined but Not Forgotten: Combatting Vaccination Resistance with Historical Education (Sara Wilmshurst)
• The Vaccination Experience: Historical Insights from Children and Families (Mona Gleason)
• Personifying Pestilence: How Political Cartoons Shape Our Views of Disease (Jacob Steere-Williams)
• An Epidemic in Madness? (Mat Sevilli and Erika Dyck)
• Animal Matter: The Making of ‘Pure’ Bovine Vaccine at the Connaught Laboratories and Farm at the Turn of the Century (Joanna Dean)
• A Brief History of Vaccines in Colonial Africa (Jessica Pearson-Patel)
• Vaccines and the Environmental History of Medicine (Lisa Piper)

Commemorating 35 years of the Marathon of Hope (Jenny Ellison) – April 2015

• Terry Fox was an Activist
• Terry Fox: A Unifying Influence in Canada?
• Terry Fox was a Rock Star
• Terry Fox Mania

Thirty Five Years after the Abortion Caravan – May 2015

• The Women Are Coming; The Abortion Caravan of 1970 (Christabelle Sethna and Shannon Stettner)
• The Abortion Caravan and Anti-Vietnam War Activism (Shannon Stettner)
• The Abortion Caravan and RCMP Surveillance (Christabelle Sethna)
• The New Abortion Caravan (Karissa Patton)
• Reassessing the Abortion Caravan (Christabelle Sethna and Shannon Stettner)