What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
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"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind."
Mack Penner's essay is live today.
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13 Nov 2024
"Humans, privileging the works of social historians, challenges many long-accepted conclusions about various historical eras that traditional global histories have kept alive."
Alvin Finkel provides a peek at his new book in today's post.
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12 Nov 2024
Laura Madokoro's class on History in the News has been particularly challenging this year. Read on for Laura's reflections.
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11 Nov 2024
"Since the release of the TRC’s Final Report, denialists feel that they have lost control of the narrative and [...] seek to distort, downplay, and discredit established historical truths to try and regain control."
@SeanCarleton's post is live today.
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8 Nov 2024
If you want to read more of Kathryn's work, check our this Active History post! activehistory.ca/blog/2023/0…
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"The contradiction at the centre of the American experiment is the contradiction between the promise of freedom and equality and the reality of racism and nativism."
Donald Wright's essay is live.
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7 Nov 2024
We have a new episode today over @ActiveHist as @theseangraham talks with Molly Miowak Guise, author of Alaska Native Resilience, about the book and local communities' response to the Aleutian campaigns during the Second World War #podcast
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4 Nov 2024
"After recording the first of many oral histories with Joey Hollingworth in February 2022 [...] I felt an urgency to preserve his story. He spoke with humor and details as smooth and precise as his tap."
Zahra McDoom's essay is live today.
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2 Nov 2024
"Styled as a male mouthpiece for the Liberal Party, and aimed primarily at the heterosexual male reader, [The Spokesman] presented the worlds of work (outside the home) and politics as male."
Daniel R. Meister's essay is live.
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31 Oct 2024
"The wolf is everywhere in human societies’ consciousness. In fact, humans have such a deep connection to wolves that they have never been able to live without the wolf in some form, whether positive or negative, imaginary or real."
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24 Oct 2024
"My collections would, perhaps, better be termed a “pack” and a “herd”; the “collections” that both inform and provide respite from my research are my four dogs and my small flock of sheep."
Renée Worringer's essay is live today.
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19 Oct 2024
Congratulations to @JennBonnell on the 2nd edition of Reclaiming the Don! If you want to hear one of Dr. Bonnell's talks about the Don River Valley you can listen here: activehistory.ca/blog/2010/1…
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19 Oct 2024
The 2nd Edition of @JennBonnell's Reclaiming the Don is coming out with @utpress!
Revisit the process that brought this project from dissertation to book in Episode 54 of @naturespast with @seankheraj.
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17 Oct 2024
The Movimento Perpétuo exhibition is at Scott Library
@yorkulibraries Everyone is welcomed any day of the week, 8am to 11pm, until November 10. The exhibition features a sample of the PCHP’s historical records in our collections at @yorkuASC
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16 Oct 2024
Augustana Indigenous Speaker Series is back!
Join Dr. Kim TallBear for her presentation: Self-Indigenization, Whiteness and Genocide. In this presentation, Dr. Tallbear will explore the reasons why settler-state citizens self-identify as Indigenous without Indigenous nation recognition of their claims.
Oct. 17, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mayer Family Community Hall, Lougheed Performing Arts Centre, Camrose & Online
Click the link to find out more and register!
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16 Oct 2024
Our website got a long overdue makeover. The new layout is easier to navigate and, if we may say, looks much nicer. 😊
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16 Oct 2024
Thrilled to announce the CFP for our newest NiCHE series!
Historicizing Adaptation
Proposal deadline: 29 November 2024
Editor: @StundenBower
"Prospective authors are encouraged to consider what adaptation has meant in the past ..."
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15 Oct 2024
"Brandt’s “a day after Hitler came to power” resonates down to the present as a warning against allowing “gangsters” a single day of national dictatorship or a single hour of organized violence." E.A. Heaman's essay is live.
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12 Oct 2024
Two independent courses that would use education to redefine traditionally "colonial archives"
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