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A Decade with Under the Volcano

23 February 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Jonathan Butler. Jonathan Butler Before writing the article, “Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano and the Drunken Discourse of Literary Solipsism,” I’d been thinking about the novel Under the Volcano—and reading and re-reading it—for about ten years. It is for me one of the richest and most elaborate of 20th Century […]

On the Research Process Behind “‘Courage to Do What Is Right’ on Cold War Broadway: Leonard Spigelgass’ A Majority of One.”

21 February 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Seunghyun Hwang. Seunghyun Hwang In retrospect, while I was struggling in searching for a dissertation research topic, I had many good opportunities to have productive conversations on post-world war America with my academic adviser and my life mentor, a baby-boomer who remembers the era. These conversations intrigued me and led […]

The 1877 General Strike: A Story Half-Told

8 February 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Justin Rogers-Cooper. Tramp Scarecrow Postcard Sometime last year I slipped a postcard of a “tramp” (as pictured in the right-hand image) into a UV-protected plastic sleeve. Then I put it into a neat pile of similarly sleeved postcards. I carefully placed them into a black museum storage box, and stacked […]

An interview with Margaret Jacob on the archives and scientific history

6 February 2017 Contributor Blog

An interview between Naomi Zurevinski and Margaret Jacob, author of “Commerce, Industry and Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised,” on the work that she did for her article, as well as the importance for historians to work in the archives. To read more about Jacob’s career journey and experiences, click here. Jacob’s article appeared in […]

A history of “Arthur Hailey as Richard Nixon: Workplace Safety in Airport.”

2 February 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Christian B. Long. I started thinking about my article “Arthur Hailey as Richard Nixon. Workplace Safety in Airport” in early 2004, at an event the Vanderbilt University English department put on for its graduate students, when Cecelia Tichi noted in passing that Moby Dick is a novel about workplace safety. […]

An interview with Margaret Jacob on feminism and the challenges of academia

31 January 2017 Uncategorized

An interview between Naomi Zurevinski and Margaret Jacob, author of “Commerce, Industry and Newtonian Science: Weber Revisited and Revised,” on her career and experiences in academia. Jacob’s article appeared in the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes in 2000, and is available here to read for free for a limited time. Margaret Jacob, UCLA As […]

Mirabel: In the Name of Development

26 January 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Éric Gagnon Poulin. Éric Gagnon Poulin On September 9th, 2003, Montreal International Airport, named Dorval Airport, was officially renamed Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Yet the former Prime Minister of Canada had planned to shut it down to build the largest airport in the world on 97,000 acres of land: […]

It’s Bell Let’s Talk Day 2017!

25 January 2017 Uncategorized

1 in 5 Canadians will suffer from mental illness at some point in their lifetime, and the stigma that’s so often associated with mental illness can be a significant hurdle for anyone seeking the help they need. In fact, it is the number one reason why two-thirds of those living with a mental illness do not […]

William Faulkner and the 2015 CUPE 3902 Strike: Thinking Outside the Ledger

23 January 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Philip Sayers. Philip Sayers The Call for Papers for CRAS’s forthcoming special issue—titled “‘Total Money Makeover’: Culture and the Economization of Everything”—asked contributors to think through the following question: to what extent can culture be understood as a privileged domain outside of the economic? To put that another way: is it […]

The Biggest Tax Reform Ever—or a Recipe for Disaster?

16 January 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Wei Cui. Wei Cui, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia In June 2016, Paul Ryan and Kevin Brady, Republican Party leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives, advanced a proposal for sweeping business and individual tax reform in the United States. In recent months, as Donald […]

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