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January 2023 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Blogroll
- Active History
- Adam Crymble, Thoughts on Public and Digital History
- Adam Mandelman, Porous Places
- Colin Tyner, the Labour of Nature, and Island Life
- Crystal Fraser, Canadian and Aboriginal History
- Daniel Macfarlane, Environmental/Transnational Historian
- Highline Online
- Historiography (Mostly) Matters – John Walsh
- Jeff Slack, Mountain Nerd
- Jim Clifford, West Ham and the Lower Lea River
- Jim Opp, Lug The Camera
- Mark Wilson, Environmental Activism (UK)
- Merle Massie A Place in History
- Michael Egan, History for a Sustainable Future
- NiCHE
- Pacific Dreams, New York Life
- Peeling Back the Bark, Forest History
- Place/Placelessness Un-Workshop
- Podcast from WCSC 2008
- Ryan O'Connor, Great Green North
- Rylan Kafara, The Past is Unwritten?
- Sean Atkins, Canadian Historical Geography
- Sean Kheraj, Canadian History & Environment
- Sound and Noise, Online Music Magazine from the UofA
- Stillwaters Historians, Katherine O"Flarherty and Rob Gee
- Sustainability History Project
- Will Knight | History, Nature, Fish
Tag Archives: Debate
Environment vs. Economy: The Perpetual Alberta Conundrum
The Gateway Pipelines public hearings have landed in Edmonton and the proceedings will probably get less press than the hearings with Aboriginal communities in British Columbia. Most communities along the proposed pipeline routes (Gateway and Keystone) have the opportunity to … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Environmentalism, Research
Tagged Canada, Debate, dissertation, economy, Environment, Environmentalism, Natural Resources, tar sands
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Is it really all about the Great Men?
Question of the Month: Does it truly come down to great men/women when getting the public – or an undergraduate class – interested in history? Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canada, Debate, Historiography, Nationalism, Opinion, Politics, Prime Ministers, public history, Quebec, Reflection
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Re-Naming; or Being Politically Correct
It seems in Canada there is always a debate going on over using the most politically correct name for places. Currently this is popping up in Vancouver around Stanley Park. The gist of the debate is the Squamish First Nation … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Environment, Opinion, Public History
Tagged Canada, Canmore, Debate, Environment, mountains, place, Politics, public history, Rant, Stanley Park, Vancouver
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Earth Hour
Earth Hour is a great idea. It uses a simple action – turning off the lights – to bring attention to climate change and global warming. But there is one glaring flaw in targeting lights and electricity as the symbol … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Environmentalism
Tagged climate change, Debate, earth hour, Energy, Environment, Opinion
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Welcome to Canadian Historiography Part II – The Liberal Order Framework.
The Liberal-Order Framework is Ian McKay’s answer to fragmentation of Canadian history and an attempt to re-invigorate political, economic, and political-intellectual history. The framework is built around the idea that from the 1840s to the 1940s liberalism, as seen in … Continue reading