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05 March 2024 – Leena Hussein and Alanna Brown
Editor’s Note: This is piece is written from two perspectives to reflect on a collaborative public history placement at York University in Toronto, Canada. The authors, Alanna Brown and Leena Hussein, are profiled at the end of the piece.
Introduction:
Credible sources are essential to improving both the reliability and credibility of Wikipedia as an academic resource. Read More
17 December 2020 – Jeremy Diamond
international, Canada, Indigenous People, covid-19, education, digital media, community history, collaboration
As a public historian for twenty years, I often look back on my time in the classroom and the daily debates on the definition of the term “public history.” Recently, I find myself reflecting more often on these classroom conversations from decades ago. Read More
15 October 2019 – Katrina Cohen-Palacios
media, archives, Canada, diversity, libraries, 2019 archives month series, video, film, digitization, everyday life
Editors’ Note: This is one in a series of posts about the intersection of archives and public history that will be published throughout October, or Archives Month in the United States. This series is edited by National Council on Public History (NCPH) board member Krista McCracken, History@Work affiliate editor Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, and NCPH The Public Historian co-editor/Digital Media Editor Nicole Belolan. Read More
20 January 2015 – Matthew Barlow 5
The field of public history has a long history of its own in Canada. The first programme was founded at the University of Waterloo in Ontario in 1983 (though it has since been disbanded), and the University of Western Ontario followed suit in 1986. Read More
29 April 2013 – Matthew Barlow 5
digital media, public engagement, government, international, politics, War of 1812, Canada, Stephen Harper
2012 was a big year for Canadians. We celebrated two important anniversaries: the thirtieth of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which made revolutionary changes in the way Canadian law works, and the two hundredth of the War of 1812. Read More