https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Michel-Hogue.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham It’s rare that a book is called the definitive book on the subject. But that’s exactly how one review summed up Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People. The book begins with the surveyors tracing the 49th parallel through the Prairies and tracks the Metis as… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Congress-Recap-2015.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham Every year the Canadian Historical Association holds its Annual Meeting as part of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. This year the event was held at the University of Ottawa which, as an Ottawa denizen, was quite nice. I didn’t spend any time looking at maps, figuring out where the… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/JFK-Museum.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Over the past fifty years, that assassination has resulted in investigations, speculation, and conspiracies about how and why Kennedy died. From the Warren Commission to the Oliver Stone movie, JFK and the circumstances of his death… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/AJ-Ortega.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham Between the ages of 5 and 12 I spent many Saturday mornings scanning the television channels looking for the wrestling shows. Whether WWF (now WWE) or WCW, I loved watching the matches and seeing how the storylines unfolded from week to week. As I slowly discovered that the outcomes were pre-determined I… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Curling.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham “It’s not just a rock. It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human being can hold. And it may have no practical purpose in and of itself but it is a repository of human possibility and if it’s handled just right it will exact… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Richard-Reid.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham The first time I learned about the American Civil War (1861-1865), it was kind of along the lines of this: Of course any war is more complicated than a single word, but that succinct answer nicely sums up how a lot of people think of the Civil War. And yet, since… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Isabel-Campbell.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham On December 4, 2014, the Canadian War Museum and UBC Press book launch as part of their joint Canadian Military Series. The series features a wide range of military historians and their examinations of this country’s military history. The books launched on this night discussed consumerism on the home front during… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Franca.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham For four days this past May the University of Toronto hosted the 2014 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. The ‘Big Berks,’ as it’s known, is considered by many to be the biggest women’s history conference in the world and this was the first time it had ever been held… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Celebrating-Canada-Intro.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham Last Wednesday we posted the first part of our first ever two part episode in which I talked with Matthew Hayday, Marc-André Gagnon, and Robert Talbot about the Celebrating Canada workshop. Then on Friday we posted a recording of the roundtable discussion that kicked off the workshop. In this episode of… Read more »
https://activehistory.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Celebrating-Canada-Roundtable.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadBy Sean Graham Full disclosure: I live in Ottawa and regularly walk past Parliament Hill and the National War Memorial on my way to Library and Archives Canada. For me, last Wednesday was a surreal day and in the week since the majority of the people with whom I have spoke have agreed with… Read more »
