Active History – History Matters
WEB“The upholstery department is the only place where women are employed in the Durant automobile factory.” Your Future Car (film), 1922, Library and Archives Canada, ISN 185644.. By David Sobel. For three consecutive nights in November 1921, Her Own Fault, “a realistic drama in which the heroine is a factory girl” was shown at the Madison Theatre (at the corner of Bloor and Bathurst) and ...
About - Active History
WEBAbout. 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 ...
Podcasts - Active History
WEBThe former ActiveHistory.ca podcast, History Slam (2012-2022) was also hosted and produced by Sean Graham. You can find all the History Slam podcasts below, or by visiting on the Activehistory.ca YouTube channel. Prince Rupert – What’s Old is News. History Slam 10th Anniversary Special: Life as Historians.
Publications - Active History
WEBThe 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 ...
Features - Active History
WEBFeatures. 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 ...
The Last Ten Years: Active History & the Teaching of Canadian …
WEBJan 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…
History – Active History
WEBKirk Niergarth Author’s Note: Alberta’s new draft K-6 curriculum, released in the spring of 2021, has unleashed a flurry of criticism. The Jason Kenney-led United Conservative government has followed through on their 2019 election promise to scrap an ambitious curriculum re-development project initiated by a Progressive Conservative government in 2008 and continued by the NDP government ...
Hugh Scott: Casualty of the Red River Troubles of 1869-70
WEB8 hours ago · The execution of the Anglo-Canadian expansionist Thomas Scott by Louis Riel’s Red River provisional government on March 4, 1870 is one of the most calamitous acts in Canadian history. In his 1912 Reminiscences, the one-time Liberal finance minister Richard Cartwright estimated that, from a monetary point of view alone, “ the volley that ...
Home – Active History
WEBActiveHistory.ca is a new website to help connect historians with the public, policy makers and the media. This is an effort to facilitate and disseminate the ideas developed at the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. Please check back soon as we continue to post more papers. We are looking at the British History & Policy Website as a ...
Introducing Active History on Display
WEBApr 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 ...