Archives: History

Friday, October 28, 2011

Grave work

By Nicole Findlay Bradley Armishaw received an unusual award last Friday afternoon. The Beechwood Cemetery and Foundation presented Armishaw, BA/09, with its first Beechwood Cemetery Prize in recognition of a paper he had written as a fourth-year student in the Department of History. Armishaw researched and wrote the essay for Department of... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Graphic novel illustrates history

By Nicole Findlay For Celia Stephens a picture really is worth a thousand words, or in her own description at least, pages and pages of one man’s autobiography.  For her final project for seminar Historical Representations, Stephens ‘represented’ This Was my Choice, a book Igor Gouzenko wrote about his decision to defect to Canada.... More

Monday, April 18, 2011

Singing for the Fat Man

By Nicole Findlay When it came time to hand in his final assignment for his seminar course, Historical Representations, Joel Bandy decided to sing its praises - quite literally. Bandy, a student of classics, religion and history, wrote and recorded a song that encapsulated the Cold War era. They Call me the Fat Man... More

Monday, April 11, 2011

Student pictures Canada’s Cold War

By Nicole Findlay As the deadline for the submission of final projects loomed, Susan Tudin vacillated between two options she’d been considering. Finally she decided to submit both – a website and a painting. The project was the culmination of a third-year course Historical Representations, Tudin, a fourth year, history student was enrolled... More

Monday, April 4, 2011

Student illustrates alternative government guide

By Nicole Findlay Upon being given creative free rein for a final course project, Talbert Johnson decided to put his lifelong passion for drawing cartoons to use. His Government of Canada-issued Cartoon Guide to Persecuting Homosexuals is a tongue in cheek summary of the policies the Canadian government enacted between the 1950s -70s. He... More

Monday, March 28, 2011

Creators of history

Just two weeks before the beginning of the fall term, Kathryn Harvey was asked to step in to teach a history class.  She decided that for the third-year seminar, Historical Representations, the students would not only focus their attention on Canadian history, they’d make it as well. “I wanted students to have an immersive experience, one... More

Monday, March 28, 2011

A gay walk down memory lane

After reading The Canadian War on Queers for his third-year seminar Historical Representations, David Tucker decided to walk in the author’s figurative footsteps. Co-written by FASS faculty member, Patrizia Gentile, the book examines the government sanctioned persecution of homosexuals during the Cold War period. Fittingly, much of the action... More

Monday, March 21, 2011

Documenting history

By Nicole Findlay Students in Michael Ostroff’s fourth-year seminar are bringing history to the silver screen.  The group of sixteen students enrolled in Making Documentary History has made four short documentaries that explore diverse themes and time periods from Canada’s past. “More and more, we are seeing documentaries being produced... More

Monday, January 17, 2011

Selling your Facebook soul to Goldman Sachs

Op Ed - Selling your Facebook soul to Goldman Sachs This month, Facebook announced it had made a deal with investment banker Goldman Sachs worth $500 million US. In his opinion piece below, Shawn Graham, a professor of digital humanities, asks who will profit from the deal and why you should care. Arguments over Facebook... More

Friday, December 17, 2010

Stripping bare post war values

STORY UPDATE: Mary-Ann Shantz has been interviewed by Sook-Yin Lee for CBC Radio One - Definitely Not the Opera. What happens when you make "private parts" public? will air on Saturday, December 4, 2010 and again on Tuesday, December 7 at 2 p.m. You can also listen to the podcast. Shantz's interview begins at the 1:00:30... More

Friday, May 28, 2010

Old news, new insight

After a year spent pouring over back issues of Ontario newspapers, two history students have uncovered new insights on old news. Upon the recommendation history professor Aleksandra Bennett, Joseph Scanlon, professor emeritus and director of Carleton’s Emergency Communications Research Unit, enlisted Nicole Marion and Casey Hurrell in a study of... More

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A hobby of helping

By Lori Tarbett Third year Yamikani Msosa describes volunteering as one of her main hobbies and that is evident given the myriad of activities she is involved in both on and off campus. Yamikani Msosa Along with completing a double major in history and law, and a minor in women’s studies, Msosa is a... More

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