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Donald Wright , University of New Brunswick I first "met" Donald Creighton when, as an undergraduate, I was assigned a couple of chapters from his two-volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. Instantly hooked by his ability to transport readers...

“There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language,” once said the twentieth-century French philosopher Henri Bergson . In other words, what makes philosophy attractive is that it expresses what we instinctively believe to...

Joan Sangster , présidente, Société historique du Canada et Stephen Toope , président, Fédération des sciences humaines À la suite de cinq débats télévisés des chefs à l’occasion des élections fédérales canadiennes de 2015, Joan Sangster, présidente...

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute is an annual training opportunity hosted at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. DHSI is the largest regular digital humanities skills training institute in the world, and has an...

Robert Blades et Thomas Berton , Carleton University Mais comment parvient-on donc à éplucher des centaines de boîtes d’archives où s’entassent pêle-mêle lettres, procès-verbaux de réunion, notes de conférence, photos, questionnaires, documents...

Submitted by Robert R. Janes We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence (Athabasca University Press) is an unusual book in the museum world – not only because it’s about the unconditional return of sacred...

Craig Heron , professor of history at York University Hamilton is an iconic city in Canada. For generations, it has been the quintessential factory town, a status confirmed by the view of fire-spewing, smoke-belching Dark Satanic Mills from the...

Don’t say history doesn’t have the power to change the future. At Congress 2015, Historians of Humanitarian Aid held a panel on the "utility of history" in today’s development in the Global South. Jill Campbell-Miller of St. Mary’s University...

The work of public historians can take many different forms, some quite unexpected. A roundtable discussion at Congress 2015 focused on the different roles that public historians take in their work. Jennifer Anderson of Library and Archives Canada...