If you happened to read the unfortunately titled editorial “Birth of Nations” (an inexplicably racist allusion) in the Ottawa Citizen yesterday, you would have been treated to Leonard Stern’s confused opinions/fever dream about the “unremarkable” character of Canadian history. Based on his own close reading of one of the major […]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
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As representatives from Canada and nearly 200 other nation-states meet in Copenhagen to negotiate the terms of a new international climate change and greenhouse gas emissions agreement, those of us with a predilection for a historical perspective might want to take a moment to reflect on our not too distant […]
Last month, Dr. Catherine Knight launched a new blog and web resource portal for New Zealand environmental history. Dr. Knight, whose research focuses on environmental history of Japan and New Zealand, has maintained a very active blog over the past month with several short stories and articles. Recently she wrote […]
I just saw this morning that H-Canada’s editors are adding “BLOG” as a new listserv tag. Ioana Teodorescu, the listserv editor, put out a call for short descriptions and links to blogs that are “useful for historians.” These don’t necessarily need to be related to Canadian history. I’ll post a […]
Over the summer, I posted a quick story about the need for historians to take part in the Canadian copyright reform consultations. The Canadian Historical Association did just this with an excellent submission to Industry Canada and the Department of Canadian Heritage that outlined many of the main concerns for […]