Active History – History Matters
Renée Worringer. Last week, I wrote about my “collections” of dogs and sheep, and how humans bred farm dogs as “enlightened wolves.”I’d like to share a bit more about the history of the human-wolf relationship. Hermanubis, the canine-headed god combining Hermes of Greek mythology with Egyptian god Anubis, associated with accompanying souls to the afterlife.
About - Active History
About. ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. It developed from the conference “Active History: History for the Future” at Glendon College in September 2008. We define active history variously as history that listens and is responsive ...
Features - Active History
Features. This section is dedicated to supporting Active History projects both online and in the material world. These projects can include web series (such as ‘The Home Archivist’) or theme weeks (such as ‘Indigenous Histories’) as well as broader partnerships and support. ActiveHistory.ca is flexible project and platform shaped by our ...
Publications - Active History
The Active History ebook series brings together some of the best writing published on ActiveHistory.ca in an accessible, open-access format. Its thematic collections focus on connecting historians to the public and the past to current events. Beyond the Lecture: Innovations in Teaching Canadian History. Click on the cover image to read and ...
Canada’s First World War: A Centennial Series on ActiveHistory.ca
Active History’s series on the history, memory, and legacy of the First World War launched in August, 2014. The series is intentionally broad in outlook, including subjects as diverse as the war’s political impact, life on the home front, and commemoration today. It is edited by Mary Chaktsiris, Sarah Glassford, Nathan Smith, and Jonathan ...
Podcasts - Active History
Podcasts. What’s Old is News is a podcast hosted and produced by Sean Graham, e xploring how current events are shaped by history. Each week, Sean will be joined by historians, journalists, and experts to discuss some of the biggest questions in history and how the connect to major policy and cultural decisions being made today.
135 Years Since the Last Spike: Colonialism and ... - Active History
Nov 6, 2020 · The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was to mark the 135 th anniversary of the driving of last spike at Craigellachie, BC, on November 7 th. The last spike was considered so monumental to Canada’s heritage that the Harper government officially declared November 7 th to be National Railway Day beginning in 2010. Donald Smith, one of the ...
Why am I teaching about this? Historical significance in Canadian ...
Apr 30, 2020 · Why this study matters. Historical thinking focuses on teaching students to “interpret and assess historical evidence in order to understand, evaluate, and construct narrative accounts about the past.”. [ii] Over the last three decades the structure and form of historical thinking has been conceptualized by scholars using the notion of ...
Canada’s First World War – Active History
The Active History of Canada’s First World War: A Thematic Guide. By Sarah Glassford and Nathan Smith The “Canada’s First World War” series launched on ActiveHistory.ca with a Call for Blog Posts, published on 4 August 2014. It concluded in the Fall of 2019, with a total of 78 posts, including this post. The series editors during this ...
The Last Ten Years: Active History & the Teaching of Canadian …
Jan 10, 2020 · Editor’s Note: In 2019, Active History celebrated its 10th anniversary by posting some of our most popular pieces from each of the previous ten years. To reflect on ten years of Active Histor…