@activehistory

activehistory has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in October 2023. The social media accounts linked to from activehistory are: • Facebook • Instagram • Bluesky Besides social media accounts, activehistory has populated their site with: • The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI – Active History • In Defence of Busywork – Active History • Teaching in Interesting Times: America @ 250 in the Canadian Classroom – Active History • Save Our Signs: Preserving Censored Histories in America’s Largest Outdoor Classroom – Active History • Happy Independence Day 2026 – Mexico & Canada – Active History • Health care workers and the ‘third wave’ of occupational health – Active History • “We are in danger of becoming a stage without actors:” Contextualizing Contemporary Overtourism in Venice, Italy – Active History • The Great Acceleration of the Laurentian Dairy Transition – Active History • Fighting Fires: Quebec Separatism in Canada – Chile Relations, 1968 – Active History • Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History • When did the Great Acceleration start? Saskatchewan might hold the answer – Active History • A Source of Perspective: The Great Acceleration and The Canada Land Survey System – Active History • “An Unwarranted Restraint:” Shining Light on Section 141 of the Indian Act (1927-1951) – Active History • Supporting Collective Bargaining, Unless it Works: The Past and Present of Federal Labour Rights Suppression in Canada – Active History • Knowledge and Science in Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History • Concrete Afterlives: Carceral Landscapes in Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History • Confirmation Bias and the Indian Act: How Common Knowledge Can Fuel Anti-Indigenous Racism – Active History • Reservoir Modernity: Lake Diefenbaker and the Great Acceleration on the Prairies – Active History • Canada Post and Labour Activism: An Interview with Evert Hoogers – Active History • Hydro Power, Energy Transitions, and the Onset of Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History • Child of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration and a Reconnaissance of Canadian Environmental History – Active History • “No random historical exercise:” The Implications of Coupal v. Leroux – Active History • The Legacy of Unwritten Histories – Active History • Rounding Up: Reflections on 10 years of Unwritten Histories – Active History • Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice – Active History • Imagining a Better Future: An Introduction to Teaching and Learning about Settler Colonialism in Canada – Active History • The Halloween Special – Witchcraft in Canada – Active History • Tenants’ Collective Responses to Housing Crises across Canada from 1900 until Present – Active History • Building a Radical Space: Inclusion, Fracture, and the Limits of Utopia – Active History • Looking Beyond the Indian Act – Active History • The power of oral history in piecing together archival fragments documenting 2SLGBTQ+ community histories – Active History • Indian Act 150: An Introduction – Active History • Crossing the Line: Women’s Opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike • “to take a normal place in the business and social world”: The Work of Women’s Voluntary and Service Associations in Residential Schools and Indian Hospitals – Active History • Respecting Data Sovereignty Starts With the Stories We Tell About the Past – Active History • Untangling the Web: Church and Public Accountability in National Reconciliation – Active History • Who decides our place names? Power, Policy, and Memory in Edmonton – Active History • Holding Ourselves Accountable: Reconciliation and Truth Telling in a Post Truth World – Active History • Duty in Drag: The Life of First World War Drag Star Ross Hamilton • Queering Mi’kma’ki: Sharing the Story of the Puoinaq – Active History • Kainai News: Social Media before Social Media – Active History • Queering Histories of Divorce and the Family in Nova Scotia • An Historian Beyond the University • Relevance and Resistance: Steering a Critical Course on AI • Flattened History • Is the gay steel mill closed? Reflections on queer histories of deindustrializing Cape Breton • Professors or Propagandists? McGill’s Socialist Professors and their Students in the 1930s • Series: Queering Atlantic Canada • Ten Resources to Learn About Queer and Trans History in Canada • Gender Dysphoria Across Borders: The Archival Pasts and Potentials of Erica Rutherford • The right to remember the past: Opening Chinese immigration records in Canada’s national archives • Remember / Resist / Redraw #10: Remembering the 75th Anniversary of Japanese Canadian Internment • Snapshots of Canada-Timor solidarity • In Racial Solidarity: Historicizing Anti-Asian Racism, Violence, and White Supremacy in Canada • A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse • “Men Want to Hog Everything”: Women in Canadian Legislative Politics after Suffrage Victories • “Where are all the (non-white, non-elite) women?” Examining issues of diversity and intersectionality in the creation of women’s history lesson plans for Ontario educators • ‘Not a Matter of Statistics:’ The HPV Vaccine Controversy, Promiscuity, and the History of Women, Children and Youth • Before Mifegymiso: A History of Rural Women’s Access to Abortion • The Politics of Tariffs • THE FREDERICTON GREYLINGS: Fredericton’s First Women’s Organized Hockey Team, 1903-1904 • Black Women’s Softball, the Dawn of Tomorrow, & the Canadian League for the Advancement of Colored People • Bodies of Water, Not Bodies of Women: Canadian Media Images of the Idle No More Movement • Feeling Weird in the Archives – Active History • Global Fascism: Lessons from India – Active History • An Ode: A History of Lilacs in Canada – Active History • Remembering Through the Body: Why We Turned to Research-Creation – Active History • Tenant Resistance to the Myth of “Supply and Demand” – Active History • Fascism and the Crises of Capitalism: A Tale of Two Crises – Active History • Care Under Raid: Policing, Privacy, and Queer Resistance – Active History • The Indian Act as Wendigo – Active History • Canada Post, Commemorative Stamps, and the Klondike. – Active History • Interregnums, Morbid Symptoms, and Climate Denial – Active History • History Will Be Livestreamed – Active History • When Protest Becomes News: The 1970 Abortion Caravan and the Politics of Media Coverage – Active History • Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada – Active History • “We as parliamentarians can feel the gaze of history upon us”: Historical Consciousness and Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act (2005) • The Chancellor and His Principals: Administrative Reponses to Socialist Professors at McGill, c. 1930-1941 • Saving Chinatown, 1971 to 2021 • Battles over Truth and Sanity: Canadian Historians Respond | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada • REGISTRATION LINK for Truth and Sanity Roundtable. • The “role of women” in Ontario school history narratives • The Legacy of Tariffs in US history: Renewing the McKinley-Hawaii Strategy? • Canada’s Christine Jorgenson? – Active History • “We’ll Fight To The End:” Working Women and the Winnipeg General Strike • “Time to Wake Up!”: Principal Currie and the McGill Labour Club’s Alarm Clock • Gender Diversity, Organizational Obliviousness, and Queering the Archive in Newfoundland and Labrador • The Economic Consequences of Tariffs • How Do You Remember a Sex Party? Telling the History of the Pussy Palace – Active History • From Static to Streaming: Canada’s 100-Year Fight for Cultural Sovereignty – Active History • On Tariffs • Nova Scotia’s Rural Museums Remain at Risk! – Active History • “The Time of Monsters”: History in Challenging Times – Active History • Reading Old Newspapers – Active History • Blogging from the ground up: Active history and working against ‘post-truth’ discourses • Rural Museums Matter: The Ross-Thomson House & Store – Active History • Steering a Middle Course on AI in the History Classroom • Finding Private Amat: A Research Method for Recovering Overlooked Soldiers of the CEF – Active History • On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up • Online History Projects: Challenges and Impact • A Queer Road Trip through Atlantic Canada • Rediscovering Private Hasan Amat: Canada’s First Muslim Soldier Killed in the First World War – Active History • Online History Projects: Change and Sustainability • Queering Atlantic Canada: Stories, Histories, Archives • Canada’s Competing Definitions of Bilingualism – Active History • A Modern History of Monsters – Active History • Repost: More than “Prisoners”: Discovering Welfare History in Holy Trinity Cemetery, Thornhill – Active History • Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives – Active History • Piecing Together Fragments: Historians and True Crime – Active History • The Complex Legacy of John Carr Munro – Active History • Poilievre’s comments on folklore aren’t quaint—they’re dangerous – Active History • “Entre Amis in an Era of Polarization” – Active History • The Extraordinary Meaning of Everyday Life: Joy Parr’s Pioneering Vision in the History of Technology – Active History • Listening to Youth: Historicising & Challenging Parental Rights Discourse – Active History • Judging a Book by its Cover: Making Sense of Sources and Silences in the History of Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs in Rural Nova Scotia – Active History • Weaponizing Sound and Space: Spatial and Sonic Patriarchy as Forms of Anti-abortion Violence – Active History • Godin chez les grecs – Active History • Celebrating Black History and the Works That Shape It – Active History • Food Insecurity in the Russo-Ukrainian War and World War II: Reading the Present Through History – Active History • Letters in Wartime: Teaching the life of Harry G. Dickson, Jr. RCAF – Active History • Soundbite Histories – Part II (the Mea Culpa) • Soundbite Histories • Call for Contributors: Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History • “The Testing Place of our Canadian Citizenship is Going to be Our Cities”: J.S. Woodsworth and the Settlement Movement in Britain and Canada.” – Active History • Spying and Lying: The Abortion Scandal that Helped Sink the Socreds – Active History • Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism (book review) – Active History • 13th Annual (?) Year in Review (100 Years Later) • Between Two Worlds • “An Historic Day”: Concern and Celebration of the Vatican’s Repatriation of Indigenous Culture – Active History • The Day Manitoba Fell to Nazi Germany – Active History • Jim’s Vision: Some Reflections on J.R. Miller – Active History • The 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference – Active History • Restricted Records: How Hong Kong Communities Lose Out When Archives Stay Closed – Active History • Jell-O Comes to Canada: “America’s most famous dessert” and the Politics of Place – Active History • Métis Kinship in Northwestern Ontario: A Tale of Two Families – Active History • How the History of the Anti-mask and Anti-vaccination Movements Hang Together • Bridging the Gap: The Legacy of the Soviet “Revisionist Turn” • Call For Contributors: Join the Active History Project This Fall! – Active History • The Continuing Relevance of Museums in Canada – Active History • On the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation – Active History • Jean de Brebeuf: Colonial Tensions and Spiritual Healing c. 1649-1660 • Triceps, Traps, and… Tiaras?: Gender Performance and Subversion in Women’s Bodybuilding through Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985) – Active History • On Wave Relationships and Struggle at the Margins: Transfeminine Histories and Echoes in Newfoundland – Active History • Kiyo Tanaka-Goto: An Open Educational Resource on a Life of Defiance and Relation-Making in the Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – Active History • Elizabeth MacCallum and the Global South Confront Partition • In the Shadow of Genocide: Elizabeth MacCallum Challenges Anti-Jewish Racism and Zionism • Taking Care of the Truth: A Call for Collaborative, Community-Engaged Residential School Research – Active History • Two Lefts, Two Paths: Quebec Left Politics and the Immigration Question through Bill 84 • 2SLGBTQ+ Youth, Parental Rights, and Alberta Standards for School Libraries • A Review of Peter Fortna’s The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History • We’re Hiring! (A site manager) • How Do We Reflect on Our Past Without Knowing It?: YWCA Canada, Residential Schools, and Indian Hospitals • The Warmth of The Sun – Brian Wilson – an appreciation • Against Lament: Developmentalism and Fourth-World Perspectives • An Unsung Chinese Canadian: Yick Wong • RSVP: Active History Gathering • Saying Yes to the (Royal) Dress • Diseased Neoliberalism • Lessons from the Past: How Mark Carney and the Liberals Can Tackle Housing Challenges in First Nations with a Renewed Focus on Building Homes and Reconciliation • The Open History of Crisis • Not Really a Field of Dreams: A Baseball Reading List • Twisted Truth: Understanding Robert Carney’s Legacy and Confronting the Dangers of Denialism • Canadian History in Entirely Precedented Times • Trump needs a history lesson. Maybe we all do • Rethinking Publishers • Shocked, but not Surprised: The End of USAID in Historical Perspective • Genealogy and Technology with Dr. Blaine Bettinger • Understanding the Tools We Have and Rethinking the Tools We Need in Ontario’s Heritage Industry • Confessions of a Textbook Author • Ontario’s Bill 23 and Upheaval in the Heritage Industry • “Encouraging the Behaviour We Want to Encourage”: Faded Promises of Security in Toronto Public Housing • Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies • A Perception of Learned Helplessness: The Jane-Finch Neighborhood Versus Pessimism and Conflict at Toronto Public Housing • A Complete Unknown • The Great State of Canada? Time for a Rethink • 12th Annual(?) Year in Review (100 Years Later) • Exposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational Network • How I Survived: Sharing Stories about Recreation at Northern Residential and Day Schools • Canada’s Sex Work Legislation Must Change • The Global Pandemic in Saskatchewan: a history to remember • Spotting the Difference: Comparing Canadian Sex Work Legislation from 1985 and 2014 • Canada’s Sex Work Legislation Hasn’t Changed • Drawn to History! Why I Teach Graphic History & Why You Should Too! • CHALLENGING ELITIST OVERVIEWS OF GLOBAL HISTORY • History in the News • Role and Responsibility of Historians in Fighting Denialism • Great has more than one meaning in American history • Black Canadian Tap Dancer Joey Hollingsworth: Sounds of Memory • The Spokesman: Gender and the Liberal Party in 1960s New Brunswick • Wolves in the Human Imagination, Wolves in Human Histories • Herding with My “Enlightened Wolves” • A Day after Hitler Came to Power • “Porter Talk”: Podcasting and the Power of Oral History • What We Learned • Consultant Woes, Community Relations Worker Doubts, and Bureaucratic Stasis at Toronto Public Housing in the late 1980s • Historia Ex Machina: An Interview with Gilberto Fernandes • A Troubled Memory? The Transnational Trauma of Chile’s 1973 Coup • Hugh Scott: Casualty of the Red River Troubles of 1869-70 • Helter Skelter: Dreams and Disappointments in Social Service Programming at Toronto Public Housing in the late 1980s • A Window on the Past: Introducing “The Moving Past” Streaming Website • Reading John Norton: The Past, Present, and Future of a Troublesome Archive • Theft, Death, and Disappearance: The Alberta Penitentiary 1906-1920 • Are historians valuable in 2024? Perspectives of an interdisciplinary researcher • Deindustrialization Studies MA Fellowships at Concordia University • Repost: Trauma-Informed Teaching: Creating Classrooms that support learning • Active History Survey • Ecological Amnesia: Reflections on Historical Change and the Northern Cod Moratorium • Fortress McGill • The Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online • Watching the Watchmen: A Historical Look at the Legacy of the Thunder Bay Police • Shahid Bedis: Revisiting Revolutionary Moments through Public History • Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Italian Historical Consciousness • Fieldhouse of Dreams: Allen Ginsberg in Thunder Bay • The Late 1980s Crisis in Toronto Public Housing Part I – Disability and Danger • Reproductive Justice, Teen Mothers, and Integration into Education • Uncovering the History of the Atlantic Region: What’s the Acadiensis School’s Legacy? • A Plea for Depth Over Dismissal • Opting for “Sexual Wellbeing for All”: Community & Sex Education in Alberta, 1970s and 2024 • Whose communities? Provincial funding support for community museums in Ontario • Mobilizing Resistance: The “Action Patriotique” Movement within Montreal’s Haitian Diaspora, 1971-1986 • On Bill 18: Danielle Smith, the Calgary School, and the Politics of Academic Freedom • We Are What We Eat: A Review of “The Human Cost of Food” Digital Exhibition • Introducing Active History on Display • Contextualizing a Scandal: A Brief History of Library and Archives Canada • Sadness, and sacrifice: A reflection on PhD training, comprehensive exams, and the discipline of history • Call for Contributors to Active History: Indigenous Voices • A Signature Pedagogy for History Instruction? • LAC’s Vision: What Future for the Past • Playfulness and History: Sackville’s GFG Stanley Statue • Feminism and its Malcontents in Canadian Universities • LAC: The Scandal of the Archives • Who Killed the History of Canadian Multiculturalism? • Uncovering the Rutherford Maid: Gender, Class, and Representation in Living History • The Anthropocene, Atmospheric Chemists, Geologists and Historians • It Starts Here: Black Histories Research Guide at the Archives of Ontario • When Class Content Gives the Professor Nightmares, It Might be Time for a Warning • Trauma-Informed Teaching: Creating Classrooms that support Learning • Call for Contributors • Thinking Historically About a Generation of Canadian Offshore Schools • When the Press Had Bite: Thunder Bay’s The Black Fly • What is Good Citizenship? Perspectives from Former Air Cadets of Diverse Identities • No One Killed Canadian History. It is time to move on • 11th Annual(?) Year in Review (100 Years Later) • Thinking Historically about Sexuality, Gender, and the Implications of “Safety” • Digitizing the Dawn of Tomorrow • The Dawn of Tomorrow was a “First” Almost Forgotten By History • Exploiting a legacy: John Peters Humphrey and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights • 75 Years of Human Rights: How to Mark This Year? • A Century of Petroleum Extraction at Norman Wells • Thinking Historically About Disability at the Ontario School for the Blind, 1903-1917 • Voices from the Rental Crisis • Entering The Jagged Landscape of History: Can We Teach Our Students to Apply Historical Thinking Skills? • Quebec Tuition Fees: A Personal Reflection • Open Access Week and Publishing in the Open • Whose History is Migrant Community History? An Essential Question for Heritage Preservation • Active History