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SERIES: The Great Acceleration

Reservoir Modernity: Lake Diefenbaker and the Great Acceleration on the Prairies – 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

SERIES: Canada Post

Canada Post and Labour Activism: An Interview with Evert Hoogers – Active History

Canada Post, Commemorative Stamps, and the Klondike. – Active History

A Modern History of Monsters – Active History

SERIES: The Time of Monsters

Global Fascism: Lessons from India – Active History

Fascism and the Crises of Capitalism: A Tale of Two Crises – Active History

“The Time of Monsters”: History in Challenging Times – Active History

Interregnums, Morbid Symptoms, and Climate Denial – 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

SERIES: Indian Act 150

“No random historical exercise:” The Implications of Coupal v. Leroux – Active History

The Indian Act as Wendigo – Active History

Looking Beyond the Indian Act – Active History

Indian Act 150: An Introduction – Active History

The Complex Legacy of John Carr Munro – Active History

Poilievre’s comments on folklore aren’t quaint—they’re dangerous – Active History

SERIES: Unwritten Histories

Rounding Up: Reflections on 10 years of Unwritten Histories – Active History

The Legacy 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

An Ode: A History of Lilacs in Canada – Active History

SERIES: History of the Pussy Palace

Remembering Through the Body: Why We Turned to Research-Creation – Active History

Care Under Raid: Policing, Privacy, and Queer Resistance – Active History

Building a Radical Space: Inclusion, Fracture, and the Limits of Utopia – Active History

How Do You Remember a Sex Party? Telling the History of the Pussy Palace – Active History

“Entre Amis in an Era of Polarization” – Active History

SERIES: Tenant Collective Responses

Tenant Resistance to the Myth of “Supply and Demand” – Active History

Tenants’ Collective Responses to Housing Crises across Canada from 1900 until Present – 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

Rural Museums Matter: The Ross-Thomson House & Store – 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

SERIES: Queering Atlantic Canada

The power of oral history in piecing together archival fragments documenting 2SLGBTQ+ community histories – 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

Queering Histories of Divorce and the Family in Nova Scotia

Gender Diversity, Organizational Obliviousness, and Queering the Archive in Newfoundland and Labrador

Gender Dysphoria Across Borders: The Archival Pasts and Potentials of Erica Rutherford

A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse

A Queer Road Trip through Atlantic Canada

Queering Atlantic Canada: Stories, Histories, Archives

“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

SERIES: Women and the Winnipeg General Strike

Crossing the Line: Women’s Opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike

“We’ll Fight To The End:” Working Women and the Winnipeg General Strike

13th Annual (?) Year in Review (100 Years Later)

Between Two Worlds

SERIES: Truth and Reconciliation

“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

“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

Chinese Canadian Archives

Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada – Active History

The right to remember the past: Opening Chinese immigration records in Canada’s national archives

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

Media and History in Canada

History Will Be Livestreamed – Active History

When Protest Becomes News: The 1970 Abortion Caravan and the Politics of Media Coverage – Active History

Kainai News: Social Media before Social Media – Active History

From Static to Streaming: Canada’s 100-Year Fight for Cultural Sovereignty – Active History

Reading Old Newspapers – 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)

SERIES: Online History

An Historian Beyond the University

Blogging from the ground up: Active history and working against ‘post-truth’ discourses

Online History Projects: Change and Sustainability

Online History Projects: Challenges and Impact

SERIES: Generative AI in Education

Relevance and Resistance: Steering a Critical Course on AI

Steering a Middle Course on AI in the History Classroom

On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up

Flattened History

How Do We Reflect on Our Past Without Knowing It?: YWCA Canada, Residential Schools, and Indian Hospitals

SHOWCASE: Pride Month

Is the gay steel mill closed? Reflections on queer histories of deindustrializing Cape Breton

“We as parliamentarians can feel the gaze of history upon us”: Historical Consciousness and Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act (2005)

Series: Queering Atlantic Canada

Ten Resources to Learn About Queer and Trans History in Canada

SERIES: 1930s Socialism at McGill

Professors or Propagandists? McGill’s Socialist Professors and their Students in the 1930s

The Chancellor and His Principals: Administrative Reponses to Socialist Professors at McGill, c. 1930-1941

“Time to Wake Up!”: Principal Currie and the McGill Labour Club’s Alarm Clock

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

SHOWCASE: Asian Heritage Month

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

Saving Chinatown, 1971 to 2021

In Racial Solidarity: Historicizing Anti-Asian Racism, Violence, and White Supremacy in Canada

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

Truth and Sanity Roundtable

REGISTRATION LINK for Truth and Sanity Roundtable.

Battles over Truth and Sanity: Canadian Historians Respond | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada

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

SERIES: Tariffs

The Politics of Tariffs

The Legacy of Tariffs in US history: Renewing the McKinley-Hawaii Strategy?

The Economic Consequences of Tariffs

Trump needs a history lesson. Maybe we all do

SHOWCASE: Women's History Month

“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

The “role of women” in Ontario school history narratives

‘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 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

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!

Flattened History

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

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

Playfulness and History: Sackville’s GFG Stanley Statue

LAC: The Scandal of the Archives

Who Killed the History of Canadian Multiculturalism?

Uncovering the Rutherford Maid: Gender, Class, and Representation in Living History

“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

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

Black Women’s Softball, the Dawn of Tomorrow, & the Canadian League for the Advancement of Colored People

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

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