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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Following the completion of HIST 5210A with Professor Jennifer Evans, both graduate students and the professor take time to examine how power structures, learning, and communications have been affected through online learning in this pandemic-plagued year. A short excerpt is below with the full article, "Levelling the Playing Field: Humour in the... More
Thursday, November 26, 2020
This #GivingTuesday donate to bring Ottawa's history to life! On December 1st @carletonuniversity is supporting CapitalHistory.ca by doubling the impact of your donations dollar-for-dollar. With more than 35,000 people passing by each day this is one of the most dynamic ways residents and visitors can learn about little known and untold stories.... More
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Alumna Alana Toulin, who earned an M.A. in History under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Johnston, has just been awarded the Best Article Prize from the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Congratulations Alana! About the JGAPE Best Article Prize For the best article published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive... More
Thursday, April 30, 2020
The following excerpt is from the article by Taia Goguen-Garner. The full article, "Grad Research: Incorporating Youth Perspectives in Monuments", can be found online. Rebecca Friend, a Master’s student in Public History is researching how children and childhood have been represented in Canadian commemorations like monuments and... More
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
The following story is a short excerpt from the website of the Graduate Studies department. The full story, "Grad Student Interns at the Dominion-Chalmers United Church" is available online. –The following story was written by Taia Gorguen-Garner. “I hear you are singing in a church choir,” are the words Carleton Master’s Student Kate... More
Thursday, November 7, 2019
The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Christine Anna Chisholm (Ph.D. History) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Graduate Level; Tristan Clayton Lee-Coughlin (B.A. General in History with high distinction) for winning the Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic... More
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
The following excerpt is from Rick Duthie's interview with Mia Jensen from the Sudbury Star. The full article, "New Play Explorers Sudbury's Labour Strife" can be viewed online. He was also recently interviewed by Heidi Ulrichsen of Sudbury.com for the article "This PhD Student is Using the Stage to Explore City's Tumultuous Labour History".... More
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
Below is a short excerpt from the Ottawa Citizen article about Cristina Wood's research as part of her MA in Public History here at Carleton University. The full article by Tom Spears, "The Ottawa River's history re-told in musical notes," can be found online. To tell the history of the Ottawa River, Cristina Wood... More
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
The History Department is proud to congratulate the following History students: Peter James Richardson (BA General in History) for winning the President's Medal; Cristina Marie Wood (M.A. Public History, Specialization in Digital Humanities) for winning the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work - Master's Level; Samantha Kathleen Albanese... More
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Through the Garth Wilson Fellowship in Public History offered by Ingenium, the federal Crown corporation which oversees museums related to science and technology, and the Department of History, MA student Cristina Wood will tell a data-informed story about the Ottawa River using song. Below is a short excerpt from Nick Ward's article "Telling... More
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
In December 2018 “In Podcasts We Trust? A Brief Survey of Canadian Historical Podcasts” authored by second year MA in Public History students Cassandra Marsillo and Nathalie Picard was published in Vol. 1.2 of the new online journal, International Public History. They highlight the exciting and growing historical podcast scene in Canada,... More
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Public History visits the Theatre! Give a quick listen to history grad student Rick Duthie's interview on CBC’s radio show Morning North in Sudbury. It aired the morning of a second staged reading performance of his play Sudbury Strike Stories on 15 October 2018. It includes a brief chat with him about his dissertation... More
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