Active History – History Matters
Podcast: Play in new window | Download This week I’m joined by Crystal Gail Fraser, author of By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories.We discuss the lesser known story of northern residential schools, conducting oral history with survivors, and the Gwich’in …
About - Active History
ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive; history that will make a tangible difference in people’s ...
Monuments & National Belonging – What’s Old is News
1 day ago · Podcast: Play in new window | Download By Sean Graham. This week, I’m joined by Tonya Davidson, author of Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging.We discuss Tonya’s approach to monuments as a primary source, how publics respond to monuments, and how national monuments fit into local communities.
Publications - Active History
Ebooks. The Active History ebook series brings together some of the best writing published on ActiveHistory.ca in an accessible, open-access format. Its thematic collections focus on connecting historians to the public and the past to current events.
Features - Active History
Book Reviews (Listed Alphabetically by Author) B. Dale Barbour, Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900–1967, reviewed by Ruthann LaBlance. Ian McKay and Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia, reviewed by Paul Bennett R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada, reviewed by ...
No One Killed Canadian History. It is time to move on
Jan 2, 2024 · By Thomas Peace. As we welcome 2024, it is time for Canadian historians to turn over a new leaf. The end of 2023 brought echoes of 2003. As the year wound to a close, some of our colleagues – mostly working outside of the university – began to pile on as they celebrated 25 years since Jack Granatstein published Who Killed Canadian History, a divisive book that shaped the so-called History ...
What We Learned – Active History
Oct 7, 2024 · 2 thoughts on “ What We Learned ” Liz Tobin October 7, 2024 at 10:46 am. I have been a fan of Active History for many years . I took some part time courses at Glendon back in the late 1960’s soon after migrating to Turtle Island from the UK.
Active History on the Grand: the War of 1812 and the Six Nations
Nov 7, 2011 · In Canada the debate over the commemoration of the War of 1812 largely ignores the role that the First Nations played as allies of Britain. For the Six Nations of the Grand River the war was a pivo…
The Last Ten Years: Active History & the Teaching of Canadian …
Jan 10, 2020 · Editor’s Note: In 2019, Active History celebrated its 10th anniversary by posting some of our most popular pieces from each of the previous ten years. To reflect on ten years of Active Histor…
Why am I teaching about this? Historical significance in Canadian ...
Apr 30, 2020 · Selecting 100 significant events in Canadian history to feature in the two sets of cards was a complicated task. We began by compiling a long chronological list of 350+ events in Canadian history after reviewing history books, websites, and …