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National Indigenous Peoples Day: June 21st, 2018

On June 21st, we’re joining our fellow Canadians to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day (NIPD), a day to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures, and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Our journals are filled with thoughtful articles on everything from Indigenous history to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, from […]

Horse Pills: A New Therapy for Those Suffering from PTSD

15 June 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Ellen Kaye Gehrke. Although we just had our paper published in the Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health, it really does not address the deepest issues around PTSD and what horses can do to instigate and sustain healing from trauma. We did capture some great quantitative information and demonstrated that […]

UTP Journals Launches CASA: We’re bringing your campus library to you!

6 June 2018 UTP News

University of Toronto Press Journals is pleased to announce that Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) is now available for all UTPJ subscribers. We’ve launched a new partnership with Google Scholar, which allows users who are off-campus to access UTP Journals Online as though they were still connected to their university network. Students and researchers will […]

World Environment Day: June 5th, 2018

4 June 2018 Articles

Celebrated in over 100 countries since its beginning in 1974, the UN’s World Environment Day (WED) has developed into a global platform for encouraging awareness, action and, of course, learning. This year’s timely theme pledges to show the many ways that we can help beat plastic pollution. Over the years, journals from across our collection […]

Moving to Online Publication: Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d’histoire

28 May 2018 Articles

For over fifty years, the CJH / ACH has produced first-class historical scholarship that reaches a wide audience. That audience is increasingly accessing our content wholly through digital platforms. Last year alone, 10,000 readers downloaded articles and book reviews. In response to this reality, and to rapid changes in academic publishing, our Editorial Board has […]

Making of a Monster (Studies Article)

24 May 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Christopher McGunnigle. Image courtesy of Marvel. Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, even Thor: a secret behind these household superheroes is that, once upon a time, they were all monsters. The Marvel superhero, ever the outsider filled with doubt and heroic flaws, was built from the mold of an […]

Julia Pyryeskina: Historical Junctures & Gaps in the Archives

22 May 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Julia Pyryeskina. Photo Credit: Giselle Gos My field of study is contemporary activist history, with a focus on the Canadian gay and lesbian liberation. I am now starting to look at trans organizing in Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s. In Becki L. Ross’s words, the winter of 1977-78 was a […]

The New Frontiers of Flesh Food

14 May 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Angela Lee. Science and technology have indisputably allowed humans to live healthier and wealthier than ever before. However, there is also a dark underside to this unprecedented prosperity. The unforeseen, unintended, and often unwelcome consequences of scientific and technological interventions are often overlooked in the enthusiasm about both their actual accomplishments […]

Hidden in Plain Sight: Sexual Violence, Korean Cinema, and the “Me Too” Movement

11 April 2018 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Marc Raymond. My essay in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, “Women Stripped Bare: Rape in the Films of Hong Sang-soo,” seems to be particularly timely given the current “Me Too” movement, which has recently spread into South Korea as well, including the film industry. This […]

An Interview between the CJH/ACH and Kate M. Burlingham

9 March 2018 Uncategorized

Kate M. Burlingham is an expert in US foreign relations and global history, and an assistant professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. Her article, “From Hearing to Heresy: The Temporary Slavery Commission, the Congregational Church, and the Foundations of Anti-Colonial Organizing in Angola,” appeared in the most recent issue of the Canadian Journal […]

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