Active History – History Matters
Donald Wright. Nov 8, 1962; Nashville, TN, USA; Picketers, calling for an end to segregation in places of public accommodation, demonstrated during Nashville City Council meeting Nov. 8, 1962. One of the leaders of the group is John Lewis, second from left in the picket line. Mandatory Credit: Harold Lowe Jr./.
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 ...
About - Active History
About. 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 ...
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 · Why this study matters. Historical thinking focuses on teaching students to “interpret and assess historical evidence in order to understand, evaluate, and construct narrative accounts about the past.”. [ii] Over the last three decades the structure and form of historical thinking has been conceptualized by scholars using the notion of ...
Features - Active History
Features. This section is dedicated to supporting Active History projects both online and in the material world. These projects can include web series (such as ‘The Home Archivist’) or theme weeks (such as ‘Indigenous Histories’) as well as broader partnerships and support. ActiveHistory.ca is flexible project and platform shaped by our ...
Publications - Active History
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. Beyond the Lecture: Innovations in Teaching Canadian History. Click on the cover image to read and ...
Canada’s First World War – Active History
The Active History of Canada’s First World War: A Thematic Guide. By Sarah Glassford and Nathan Smith The “Canada’s First World War” series launched on ActiveHistory.ca with a Call for Blog Posts, published on 4 August 2014. It concluded in the Fall of 2019, with a total of 78 posts, including this post. The series editors during this ...
Reading Canadian History in Isolation – Active History
Apr 15, 2020 · Donald Wright. Billing them as tonics to our unnerving times, newspapers around the world are keeping pandemic reading lists. When the Globe and Mail invited Margaret Atwood to weigh in, she recommended In the Lateness of the World, a new poetry collection by Carolyn Forché.But, she quickly added, Forché’s poetry can be “pretty dire.”
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca
Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, life on the home front, and commemoration today. It is edited by Mary Chaktsiris, Sarah Glassford, Nathan Smith, and Jonathan ...