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activehistory has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in October 2023. The social media accounts linked to from activehistory are: Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky. Besides social media accounts, activehistory has populated their site with Happy Independence Day 2026 – Mexico & Canada – Active History, Health care workers and the ‘third wave’ of occupational health – Active History, “We are in danger of becoming a stage without actors:” Contextualizing Contemporary Overtourism in Venice, Italy – Active History, The Great Acceleration of the Laurentian Dairy Transition – Active History, Fighting Fires: Quebec Separatism in Canada – Chile Relations, 1968 – Active History, Mining Data and Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History, When did the Great Acceleration start? Saskatchewan might hold the answer – Active History, A Source of Perspective: The Great Acceleration and The Canada Land Survey System – Active History, “An Unwarranted Restraint:” Shining Light on Section 141 of the Indian Act (1927-1951) – Active History, Supporting Collective Bargaining, Unless it Works: The Past and Present of Federal Labour Rights Suppression in Canada – Active History, Knowledge and Science in Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History, Concrete Afterlives: Carceral Landscapes in Canada’s Great Acceleration – Active History, Confirmation Bias and the Indian Act: How Common Knowledge Can Fuel Anti-Indigenous Racism – Active History, Reservoir Modernity: Lake Diefenbaker and the Great Acceleration on the Prairies – Active History, Canada Post and Labour Activism: An Interview with Evert Hoogers – 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, “No random historical exercise:” The Implications of Coupal v. Leroux – Active History, The Legacy of Unwritten Histories – Active History, Rounding Up: Reflections on 10 years 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, Tenants’ Collective Responses to Housing Crises across Canada from 1900 until Present – Active History, Building a Radical Space: Inclusion, Fracture, and the Limits of Utopia – Active History, Looking Beyond the Indian Act – Active History, The power of oral history in piecing together archival fragments documenting 2SLGBTQ+ community histories – Active History, Indian Act 150: An Introduction – Active History, Crossing the Line: Women’s Opposition to the Winnipeg General Strike, “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, 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, Kainai News: Social Media before Social Media – Active History, Queering Histories of Divorce and the Family in Nova Scotia, An Historian Beyond the University, Relevance and Resistance: Steering a Critical Course on AI, Flattened History, Is the gay steel mill closed? Reflections on queer histories of deindustrializing Cape Breton, Professors or Propagandists? McGill’s Socialist Professors and their Students in the 1930s, Series: Queering Atlantic Canada, Ten Resources to Learn About Queer and Trans History in Canada, Gender Dysphoria Across Borders: The Archival Pasts and Potentials of Erica Rutherford, 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, In Racial Solidarity: Historicizing Anti-Asian Racism, Violence, and White Supremacy in Canada, A Beacon of Light: Hidden 2sLGBTQ+ Histories in Saint John’s The Lighthouse, “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, ‘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 Politics of Tariffs, 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, Feeling Weird in the Archives – Active History, Global Fascism: Lessons from India – Active History, An Ode: A History of Lilacs in Canada – Active History, Remembering Through the Body: Why We Turned to Research-Creation – Active History, Tenant Resistance to the Myth of “Supply and Demand” – Active History, Fascism and the Crises of Capitalism: A Tale of Two Crises – Active History, Care Under Raid: Policing, Privacy, and Queer Resistance – Active History, The Indian Act as Wendigo – Active History, Canada Post, Commemorative Stamps, and the Klondike. – Active History, Interregnums, Morbid Symptoms, and Climate Denial – Active History, History Will Be Livestreamed – Active History, When Protest Becomes News: The 1970 Abortion Caravan and the Politics of Media Coverage – Active History, Almost Destroyed: Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada – Active History, “We as parliamentarians can feel the gaze of history upon us”: Historical Consciousness and Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act (2005), The Chancellor and His Principals: Administrative Reponses to Socialist Professors at McGill, c. 1930-1941, Saving Chinatown, 1971 to 2021, Battles over Truth and Sanity: Canadian Historians Respond | Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada, REGISTRATION LINK for Truth and Sanity Roundtable., The right to remember the past: Opening Chinese immigration records in Canada’s national archives, The “role of women” in Ontario school history narratives, The Legacy of Tariffs in US history: Renewing the McKinley-Hawaii Strategy?, Canada’s Christine Jorgenson? – Active History, “We’ll Fight To The End:” Working Women and the Winnipeg General Strike, “Time to Wake Up!”: Principal Currie and the McGill Labour Club’s Alarm Clock, Gender Diversity, Organizational Obliviousness, and Queering the Archive in Newfoundland and Labrador, The Economic Consequences of Tariffs, How Do You Remember a Sex Party? Telling the History of the Pussy Palace – Active History, From Static to Streaming: Canada’s 100-Year Fight for Cultural Sovereignty – Active History, On Tariffs, Nova Scotia’s Rural Museums Remain at Risk! – Active History, “The Time of Monsters”: History in Challenging Times – Active History, Reading Old Newspapers – Active History, Blogging from the ground up: Active history and working against ‘post-truth’ discourses, Rural Museums Matter: The Ross-Thomson House & Store – Active History, Steering a Middle Course on AI in the History Classroom, Finding Private Amat: A Research Method for Recovering Overlooked Soldiers of the CEF – Active History, On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up, Online History Projects: Challenges and Impact, A Queer Road Trip through Atlantic Canada, Rediscovering Private Hasan Amat: Canada’s First Muslim Soldier Killed in the First World War – Active History, Online History Projects: Change and Sustainability, Queering Atlantic Canada: Stories, Histories, Archives, Canada’s Competing Definitions of Bilingualism – Active History, A Modern History of Monsters – 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, The Complex Legacy of John Carr Munro – Active History, Poilievre’s comments on folklore aren’t quaint—they’re dangerous – Active History, “Entre Amis in an Era of Polarization” – 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, 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, “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, 13th Annual (?) Year in Review (100 Years Later), Between Two Worlds, “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, 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, 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), How Do We Reflect on Our Past Without Knowing It?: YWCA Canada, Residential Schools, and Indian Hospitals, 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, 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, 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, Trump needs a history lesson. Maybe we all do, 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, Active History.