How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with AgentNDN and Elysse Deveaux about decolonization, memes, and semiotics. What are the tools can use to interrupt colonialism and colonial structures?
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How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with Georgina Riel/Waabishki Mukwa Kwe, an Ojibway educational consultant and artist, about how can get caught in language and to reaffirm colonial ideas of history, the…
In this Source Saturday conversation I speak with Amber Lloydlangston (Curator of Regional History), Olivia Musico (community collector), and Ghaida Hamdun (co-founder of Black Lives Matter London) about Museum London’s Black Lives Matter exhibit. The…
In this video, Dr. Glassford talks about a letter sent home from London in 1943 to demonstrate how prominent emotional labour and creating networks of home was for many women in the Red Cross. We talk about gender, and gendered expectations of care…
In this video, Jennifer talks about how she used oral histories to refute the dominant historiographical notion that Jews did not participate in homefront war activities. In fact, Jewish women’s participation in home front activities carried a much…
Dr. Amy Shaw discusses her co-edited collection on women and girls in Canada and Newfoundland during WW2. *Dr. Shaw underscores that by listening to the women themselves – the archival sources and oral histories that are available – we can complicate…
In this video I speak with Dr. Matt Luckett about the digitization project of his grandparents’ letters during World War Two. Dr. Luckett’s grandfather, Elmer Kurtz Luckett, was a steam engineer in the United States Navy who lived though the bombing…
The Canadian Letters and Images Project is a digitized collection of letters from military conflicts that involved Canadians. In this video, I speak to Dr. Stephen Davies the director of the Project about two letters from this collection.
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What is happening behind the scenes in the news media during the contentious US election? How can historians help us understand this moment? In this video, I speak to journalism historian Professor Emeritus Michael Palmer from Sorbonne Nouvelle…
Interested in incorporating some spooky history into your Canadian history teaching? Dr. Kyle Falcon introduces us to audio recording of séances from the 1930s. In our conversation, we talk about the intersection between technology and gender, and the…