Remembering and Commemorating a Complicated Past
In this post, I look at controversies surrounding a statue of Nellie McClung, due to her early-20th century support of eugenics.
Category Archives: Teaching History
Street History
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.
“Local Effort Brings Our Past to Life”: Halifax Chronicle-Herald
This post discusses a recent effort to bring the local history of an area into the history classroom and asks broader questions about the role of local history generally.