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The Banff Photographic Exchange: Albums, Youth, Skiing, and Memory Making in the 1920s
“We Want Pictures so Kodak as You Go”: Promoting Winter Recreation in Banff in the 1920s
Category Archives: Opinion
5 Stages of Recovering from Academia
Hi. My name is Lauren and I am a Recovering Academic. It has been 2 years and 6 months since I was in graduate studies and I have a good full-time job in my field. Yet, there are times, usually … Continue reading
Posted in Grad School, Opinion
Tagged academia, Activism, Graduate Students, Opinion, Reflection, University
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Good-Bye STEP
Today the Alberta Budget dropped and the news is not good for local heritage and history institutions or the students who keeps them going in the summer months. The Student Temporary Employment Program, or STEP, was suspended. This is not … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Public History
Tagged budget cuts, Opinion, public history, Reflection, STEP
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Titanic EnvHist?
For the past week news sources have promoted the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. The commemoration focused on the people and the events of the night; the tales of survival and the grief of the loss of life. There … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged commemoration, envhist, Environment, Historiography, public history, Reflection, Titanic
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RIP Eastman/Kodak
Kodak is dead. Today, after weeks of speculation, the media announced the fabled camera company had filed for bankruptcy. It is a great loss that in the age of planned obsolescence and a public that seems to constantly drool over … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion, Public History, Visual history
Tagged Banff, kodak, photography, Reflection, skiing, visuality
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Stop the Great Canmore Rabbit Invasion
Canmore need to take drastic action about the bunnies. Action that should have been taken twenty years ago when the rabbits were only in South Canmore Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion
Tagged bunnies, Canmore, Ecology, Environmentalism, invasive species, mountains, Opinion, rabbits, wilderness
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Reflection on Sustainability: Cronon’s 2011 ASEH Plenary Address
Sustainability is the buzz word of the early twenty-first century. The Green Party of Canada runs their entire campaign based on the tenant of living and governing in a more environmentally sustainable way – but since they were barred from … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion
Tagged ASEH, Cronon, Environment, plenary address, Reflection, sustainability
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Suzuki, The Nature of Things, and Public Science
Today is a double birthday in Canadian public science; Dr. David Suzuki turns 75 and the CBC program “The Nature of Things” turns 50. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Research
Tagged David Suzuki, dissertation, Environment, Reflection, science, The Nature of Things
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“The End is Nigh!”
This blog began as a place to reflect on the plethora of books and articles history doctoral students must read for comprehensive examinations. Somewhere in the middle of comps this blog became more about dissertation research and ideas that don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Tagged comps, dissertation, Graduate Students, Opinion, Reading, Reflection
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We are here.
Thirty-eight years ago today the crew of Apollo 17 took a photograph from space that would become known as “The Blue Marble.” Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Opinion, Research
Tagged dissertation, earth, Environment, Opinion, photography, Reflection, sublime, World
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The Canmore-Provincial Parks Conundrum
The province of Alberta is looking to changing how provincial parks are regulated. Nowhere will these changes have a greater affect than Canmore. CPAWS, the Sierra Club, and other conservation interest groups have taken up lamenting how these changes will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canmore, conservation, Environment, Mines, mountains, parks, public history, Reflection, wilderness
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