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Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton On July 10, the Alberta government introduced new standards for school libraries “to ensure school library materials are age-appropriate.” The ministerial order ...
Nancy Janovicek and Karissa Patton This button is from Nancy’s political button “archive.” She first wore it in the 1990s when groups attempted to ban books from libraries, including Lesléa ...
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 ...
This week I talk with Peter Fortna, author of The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. We talk about the origins of the Nation, which is located in northeastern Alberta, the community ...
This week, I talk with Barbara Messamore, author of Times of Transformation: The 1921 Canadian General Election about one of Canada’s turning point elections. We discuss the post-war economy’s, ...
Imagine being suddenly told that you cannot research online when writing history. No electronic journals, no ebooks, no Internet Archive, no Wikipedia, no search engines. You will instead be forced to ...
Active History is hiring a part-time site manager. Come work with us! Editorial meeting for “les pages féminines,” La Presse newsroom, 4 March 1969. Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Site ...
Workmen shank aluminum blooms at the Aluminum Company of Canada plantCredit: Ronny Jaques / National Film Board of Canada, Library and Archives, Canada, WRM2814. Everything seems to be about tariffs ...
By Sean Graham Sean Graham talks with Caitlin Keliiaa, author of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women’s Labour and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program. They discuss the residentia… ...
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 ...
David Webster– Tariffs on you!– No, bigger tariffs on you!– No, I have the biggest, most beautiful tariffs, and I am slapping them on you! Anyone could be excused for thinking it … ...
This week I talk with Cristina Vatulescu, author of Reading the Archival Revolution: Declassified Stories and Their Challenges. We talk about the Soviet archives that have been declassified over the ...
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