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Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education2009-03-06
Canadians for Genocide Education
CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded project...
Sources welcomes Michael Riordon2010-04-14
Michael Riordon
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio a...
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Activist archiving in TorontoLithgow, Michael
Article
2013
Alternative Archive
People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes315 years. 20,528 voyages. Millions of lives.
Kahn, Andrew and Bouie, Jamelle
Article
2015
Slate.com
Usually, when we say "American slavery" or the "American slave trade," we mean the American colonies or, later, the United States. But North America was a bit player. From the trade's beginning in the...
Best Practices for the Social History DomainArticle
2013
The HOPE Wiki
Index page for the Best practices for the social history domain.
The Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Connexions Library: History Focus PageWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
Connexions Library: Oral History Focus PageWebsite
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
Fear of the People's HistoryEngland's Two Countries
Pilger, John
Article
2013
Counterpunch
England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow. They were another nation with a different history, different loyalties, different humour, even different values. ...
Historical methodSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
Historical Thinking MattersWebsite
Historical Thinking Matters is a website focused on key topics in U.S. history that is designed to teach students how to critically read primary sources and how to critique and construct historical na...
HistorySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
History (meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the human past. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented.
History Topic Index in Sources Directory of ExpertsSpokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Website
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A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
In Praise of the Telescopic Perspective: A Reflection on Living Through Turbulent TimesPerspective to lift the blinders of our cultural moment
Popova, Maria
Article
2017
Brain Pickings
Maria Popova has found solace in taking a more telescopic view - not merely on the short human timescale of her own life, looking back on having lived through a Communist dictatorship and having seen ...
Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'Arbuthnot, Felicity
Article
2016
The Ecologist
As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or mor...
Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?Sources News Release
Article
2012
Connexions
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
Life in StillsTal, Tamar
Film/Video
2011
The Heymann Brothers Films
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
The Many Roots of Christian EuropeMalik, Kenan
Article
2014
Pandaemonium
This is a transcript of a I talk I gave yesterday at the LSE Literary Festival. My thanks to Arthur Bradley who also took part and responded to many of the themes I raised here and to Danielle Sands o...
A Marxist History of the World: Making the futureFaulkner, Neil
Article
2012
Counterfire
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change.
A Marxist History of the World part 28: The cycles and arrows of timeme
Faulkner, Neil
Article
2011
Counterfire
In Part 9 of A Marxist History of the World, we paused to discuss ‘how history works’. It would be useful to pause again to review some general lessons of the history of the ancient and medieval civil...
A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History HappensFaulkner, Neil
Article
2010
Counterfire
The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history ...
The Not-So-Secret History of CapitalismMalik, Kenan
Article
2013
Pandaemonium
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between ...
Oral historyConnexipedia Article
Article
The recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and recollections of the speaker.
Oral historySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Oral history is the recording, preservation and interpretation of historical information, based on the personal experiences and opinions of the speaker.
Oral history preservationSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Oral history preservation is the field that deals with the care and upkeep of oral history materials, whatever format they may be in. Oral history is a method of historical documentation, using interv...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Diemer, Ulli
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to co...
Public historySources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Public history is a term that describes the broad range of activities undertaken by people with some training in the discipline of history who are generally working outside of specialized academic set...
Quotes about HistoryUnclassified
Connexions
Rooms with a View of Russian Artistic HistoryKennicott, Phillip
Article
2012
The Washington Post
Discussing the challenges for the small historic museums seeking to establish themselves in St. Petersburg.
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
Social History PortalWebsite
Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, b...
Social and Labour History NewsWebsite
Recent new from the field of social and labour history.
Spartacus EducationalSimkin, John
Website
1997
Spatacus Educational
Free educational resource for history teachers and students. With particular focus on Britain, the USA, Russia, Germany, WWI, WWII, Women's history, Black history, Civil Rights.
Three Myths of ImmigrationMalik, Kenan
Article
2012
Pandaemonium
Kenan Malik sets out to explain to a Canadian audience, for whom multiculturalism has a very different meaning than it does to a European one, the contours of the European debate, as well as his disag...
Why History Makes Us ImportantBack to Bachima
Acuna, Rodolfo
Article
2014
CounterPunch
History has been important to me for as long as I can remember. As a child I loved hearing my relatives tell stories about the past. However, it was not until I was older that I realized that the stor...
Sources Bookshelf
After the Ice AgeThe Return of Life to Glaciated North America
Pielou, E.C.
Book
1991
Behind the HeadlinesA History of Investigative Journalism in Canada
Rosner, Cecil
Book
2008
Presents the exciting history of investigative journalism in Canada, an account spanning from the nation's earliest newspapers through to the present day.
Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human HistoryGaleano, Eduardo
Book
2012
The days of human history.
Culture of ComplaintThe Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan...
Dialogues on Cultural StudiesInterviews with Contemporary Critics
edited by Xie, Shaobo; Wang, Fengzhen
Book
2002
Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, n...
A Dictionary of Contemporary World HistoryFrom 1900 to the Present Day
Palmowski, Jan
Book
1997
More than 2,500 entries, detailed yet concise, covering countries, individuals, political parties and movements, and events.
A Dictionary of Environment and ConservationPark, Chris
Book
2008
Contains over 8500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environme...
Documentary FilmA Very Short Introduction
Aufderheide, Patricia
Book
2007
Takes readers in a journey through documentary history, discussing forms as various political documentaries, musical docs, wildlife docs, and diary films.
Easily LedA History of Propaganda
Thomson, Oliver
Book
1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
The Erotic ArtsWebb, Peter
Book
1975
Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
A History of ReadingManguel, Alberto
Book
1996
An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
History of Western PhilosophyAnd its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Russell, Bertrand
Book
1946
A history of western philosophy in relation to its social and economic background.
The Library at NightManguel, Alberto
Book
2006
The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
Long ShadowsTruth, Lies, and History
Paris, Erna
Book
2001
The Meaning of EverythingThe Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Book
2003
The Oxford Companion to Canadian HistoryHallowell, Gerald (ed.)
Book
2004
Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation...
The Oxford History of Modern WarTownshend, Charles
Book
1997
The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
Seeds of FireA People's Chronology
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
There Was a CountryA Personal History of Biafra
Achebe, Chinua
Book
2012
A coming of age account, set against the backdrop of the Nigerian Civil War, or the Biafran War, of 1967-1970.
Traces of MagmaAn Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
Knight, Rolf
Book
1983
An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
An Unauthorized Biography of the WorldOral History on the Front Lines
Riordon, Michael
Book
2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ...
The Voice of NewfoundlandA Social History of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, 1939-1949
Webb, Jeff A.
Book
2008
Explores the roles that radio played in society and culture during a vibrant and pivotal time in Newfoundland's history, and demonstrates how the broadcaster's decision to air political debates was pi...
The Woman's PageJournalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada
Fiamengo, Janice
Book
2008
A detailed study of these six women and their respective works: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeanette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blake Coleman, Flora MacDonald Denison and Nellie L. McClung. Dem...
The Archivist/L'ArchivisteA free, bilingual, information-packed magazine highlighting the archival resources and services of the National Archives of Canada.
BC BusinessThe most widely read business publication in BC
BC StudiesThe exploration of BC's cultural, economic and political life - both past and present.
Canadian Ethnic StudiesThe history and cultural life of ethnic groups in Canada. Each issue contains articles and research notes, book reviews, opinions, memoirs, bibliography and creative writing.
Canadian Historical ReviewAnalysis of the ideas, people and events that have molded Canadian society and institutions. Canada's past is examined from a vast and multicultural perspective.
Canadian Journal of HistoryAll fields of history except the history of Canada. Each issue features articles and reviews by leading scholars about themes and controversies in historical writing.
Discovery ChannelThe world is just awesome! With compelling real-life programming that inspires and entertains, Discovery Channel reveals the world in all its wonder, diversity and amazement. Discovery Channel offers ...
Discovery ScienceAs part of one of the most recognised TV networks in the world, Discovery Science is dedicated to providing the most entertaining, intriguing and fun content all in the name of science.
We'll be un...
HistoriaA French-language history channel that provides Qu‚bec productions, documentaries, historical films.
HistorySocial history magazine written from a North American perspective.
History TelevisionOffers historical documentaries, movies and original programming from Canada and around the world. Also offers some non-historical programming relating to military, science and technology.
KayakKayak: Canada's History Magazine For Kids.
Geared to 7-12 year olds. Includes comics, short articles, original games and jokes, designed to make discovering Canada and its stories fun and memorable.
LabourA bilingual journal holding no rigid position on the definition of labour. The editorial board hopes to foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an open ex...
Left HistoryAn interdisciplinary journal of historical inquiry and debate.
Legion MagazineSpecializing in Canadian history. For the ex-service community and the 50+ market.
MuseWritten by museum professionals for peers, volunteers, students and afficionados. Contains news, commentary, in-depth articles and book reviews.
National Geographic Channel CanadaFeatures documentary and human interest programming that explores the natural world around us. The service is based on the world famous National Geographic Magazine.
ROMMagazine by Royal Ontario Museum. Articles on science, art and archaeology with regular editorial columns. All content concentrates on the research and collections of the ROM.
SBTN (Saigon Broadcasting Television Network)A Vietnamese language channel. Offers programming to keep Vietnamese Canadians connected with their culture and identity. Includes news, talk shows, sports, children's programming, entertainment, var...
Government Ministries & Agencies
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of CanadaThe statutory advisory body to the Minister of the Environment and, through the Minister, to the Government of Canada on the commemoration of nationally significant aspects of Canada's history.
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