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Truth and Reconciliation – Where Do Historians Fit?

13 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, James Carson I recently attended my son’s high school graduation. At the end of the emcee’s recognition of territory the audience stood and erupted in a raucous ovation. There were even whoops, hoots, and hollers, a joy in something right was being done. Would this have happened ten or twenty years ago? […]

Coming to Terms with the Murderer

7 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, John Dale My essay grew out of work undertaken at York University on American novels with protagonists who were murderers. I found myself interested by the degree to which the reader became sympathetically engaged with the murderers and by the variety of methods employed by different authors to achieve this engagement; these […]

Why I Write About Satanic Panic

5 July 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Joseph P. Laycock As a scholar of American religious history and new religious movements, the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s has been a recurring theme of my work. In the 1980s it was widely believed that organized cults of criminal Satanists operate throughout America, murdering hundreds of people a year in human […]

Happy Pride!

30 June 2016 In the News

Toronto’s Pride Festival has quickly evolved to be the largest Pride celebration in North America. To celebrate we’ve made a select collection of articles on the history, culture, and diversity of the LGBTQ community available for FREE until Monday! There are some really interesting reads below, make sure to check them out! “Love is love […]

CRITIQUING A COLLEAGUE

20 June 2016 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Joel Fishbane @joelfishbane In 2006, some prognosticating theatre critic from the Montreal Gazette named the six “lions of indie theatre”. I was one of them; playwright Annabel Soutar was another. Nearly all those artists have moved on from producing theatre (myself included), but Annabel has persevered and so it is […]

State Strength, Non-State Actors, and the Guatemalan Genocide

13 June 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Frederick M. Shepherd My article, “State Strength, Non-State Actors, and the Guatemalan Genocide: Comparative Lessons,” emerged from my scholarly and political interests going back several decades. As a student and political activist, my interest came out of concerns for social justice, prompted by the Reagan administration’s obsession with Central America in […]

The Writings of Michèle Mailhot and Marcelle Brisson: Exploring Quebec’s Religious Past

31 May 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Myreille Pawliez, Victoria University of Wellington. An old Catholic school in Montreal, © Myreille Pawliez In Quebec, every village is dominated by a disproportionately large church and presbytery, and every town is peppered with imposing stony seminaries, colleges and schools. These tangible mementoes of an ultra-conservative Catholic Church which had a […]

Finding Louis Riel’s Voice

9 May 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Max Hamon. Image of Riel c. 1866. Library and Archives Canada Honestly, it is thrilling to see one’s work appear in the Canadian Historical Review. In truth the process is never really finished, but at least there is now a flag marking something of a path through my travels in archives […]

National Gallery of Canada and University of Toronto Press launch an online open access Journal

3 May 2016 In the News

PRESS RELEASE English Français National Gallery of Canada and University of Toronto Press launch an online open access Journal Toronto, Canada, May 3, 2016 —Together with the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), University of Toronto Press Journals announced today the launch of the Web version of the National Gallery of Canada Review. The National Gallery […]

Racialized and Sporting Spaces on Canada’s West Coast

12 April 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest bloggers, Allan Downey and Susan Neylan. Photo taken by Stuart Thomson, May 1917: “Cowichan Ball Club – Indian Sports – Brockton Point”. Courtesy of the Vancouver City Archives This past February the All-Native Tournament, an annual basketball competition held in Prince Rupert, BC, received national press coverage (click here to view story […]

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