On Monday, International Women’s Day, Margaret Wente declared victory for the rights of women, stating “The war for women’s rights is over. And we won.” Canadian women, according to Wente, have made great achievements courtesy of feminism “for some of this.” Wente reserved most of her gratitude for the industrial […]
The Network in Canadian History & Environment has launched a new blog called Nature’s Chroniclers. Taking the lead from Active History, this new group blog has started with a weekly schedule of posts from leading researchers in the field of Canadian environmental history. Thus far, the blog has featured posts […]
Last December, NiCHE announced the results of its fourth annual call for projects and we were awarded funding to develop an environmental history mobile application for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). The EH App Project will develop a mobile application to help connect the environmental history research community to […]
Episode 20 The 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in Winnipeg: February 27, 2011 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past20.mp3][46:04] Toward the end of the Great War, Canadians were struck by the most devastating influenza epidemic in the young country’s history. More than 50,000 Canadians succumbed to this virulent strain of influenza that swept the globe in […]
Next week the NiCHE New Scholars Reading Group will be hosting a live Skype conference call to discuss a draft chapter from Dan Rueck’s dissertation. This chapter looks at land practices at Kahnawake to 1815. Reading Group members can now download the draft chapter from our group website and sign […]
I recently led a session at the City of Calgary Teachers’ Convention Association meeting here at Mount Royal University titled “Teaching Digital History Skills”. The purpose of this session was to explore some of the key digital tools and technologies used for history research, analysis, communication, and teaching at the […]
Last December, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange claimed that his organization had coined a new type of journalism called “scientific journalism”. According to Assange, “[s]cientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge […]
Historians should be control freaks when it comes to data storage. We are data gatherers who scrape archives for any content relevant to our particular research projects. For instance, when I was last at the city archives in Montreal, I asked the archivist for access to the Montreal public market […]
Episode 19 Metropolitanism and Canadian Environmental History: January 24, 2011 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past19.mp3][42:58] In 1954, Canadian historian James Maurice Stockford Careless published an influential article in the Canadian Historical Review, titled “Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History” which offered a new approach for understanding the course of Canadian history and the development […]
This April, the Wilson Institute for Canadian History and the Network in Canadian History & Environment will host a three-day symposium called EH+: Writing the Next Chapter of Canadian Environmental History. The symposium is intended to assemble up to fifty scholars to discuss and debate future directions for the study […]
It is the start of a New Year and it is the start of a new round of the NiCHE New Scholars Reading Group. For the January Round we’ll be taking a look at the introduction to Dan Macfarlane’s recently completed dissertation “To the Heart of the Continent: Canada and […]
Environmental historians with an interest in oral history research should check out the special issue of Oral History Forum that was recently published. Guest editors Alan MacEachern and Ryan O’Connor have assembled a fine collection of articles that reflect upon the practice of oral history methodologies in environmental history research. […]