Active History – History Matters
Alan MacEachern. Last year, an email informed me of a death. Two, actually. Top Hat would no longer publish Origins: Canadian History to Confederation or Destinies: Canadian History since Confederation as either print or e-books. These twin textbooks, once as much staples of Canadian history survey courses as, well, the staples thesis, were being discontinued due to …
Understanding the Tools We Have and Rethinking the Tools We …
1 day ago · This essay is part two of a series. Read the first installment here. MPP Sam Oosterhoff, The Brown Homestead Executive Director Andrew Humeniuk and Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism Michael Ford in front of The John Brown House. December 2023. In Fall 2022, the Ontario government ...
Ontario’s Bill 23 and Upheaval in the Heritage Industry
Jan 30, 2025 · Perhaps you read Nathan Ince’s 2024 Active History article about John Norton. You may be interested to know that his cabin is preserved at The Brown Homestead in Niagara, alongside the family home of John Brown. The Brown Homestead stands on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introducing Active History on Display
Apr 30, 2024 · Active History is delighted to launch our digital history initiative, Active History on Display (en français: Expositions d’Active History).The project features two exhibits. The first, More Than a Face, engages with nine storytellers to challenge dominant narratives of what it means to be Asian Canadian – and indeed to challenge the very idea that such a capacious category can have a ...
Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future – Active History
Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded Partnership Grant focused on K-12 history education in Canada. Led by Dr. Carla Peck at the University of Alberta, Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future aims to nurture a community of interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral inquiry …
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.