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Image of Countway v. Countway decision as it appears in Can LII database, CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute. Erin ...
The Squamish Nation’s Yúusnewas project demonstrates the importance of data sovereignty, big data analysis, and the need for collaborative, community-engaged residential school research as part of the ...
Ultimately, The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History makes a vital contribution to Métis historiography and to the growing body of scholarship that centers Indigenous voices in historical ...
Maegan Ellis Peter Fortna’s The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History presents a compelling and community-centered account of one of northern Alberta’s long-standing yet often overlooked Métis ...
This post is part of our series of Essays on the Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online. I didn’t expect to get into public history. I’ve been lucky enough to find an ...
In this context, it’s easy to imagine that individual professors had the ability to influence or shape their students’ political philosophies. It’s also quite hard to imagine that when socialism ...
As the 1930s unfolded, the soaring unemployment and general miseries of the Great Depression breathed new life into the Canadian left. Socialism began to take root in federal politics, a process ...
This week I talk with Mary Frances Phillips, author of Black Panther Woman: The Political and Spiritual Life of Ericka Huggins. We talk about the process of writing a historical biography of a living ...
In the last few months, there has been a growing debate about how historians should respond to AI. And that’s a good thing. I’ve argued that we need to engage with the technology or risk becoming ...
Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. I reject both approaches.[1] Not because I don’t ...
Photograph of Erica Rutherford’s Diary 1938-1941. Taken October 2021. Diary. Series 3; subseries 1, folio 1, inside cover. Public Archives and Records Office Prince Edward Island. Erica Rutherford ...
In The Fourth World, Manuel makes it clear that his problem with developmentalism is the ideology’s skirting of the central demand of bodies such as the NIB––that the “custodian-child” relationship ...