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Monday, June 12, 2017
The History Department is pleased to announce that Distinguished Research Professor Deborah Gorham has won the 2017 Alison Prentice Award presented by the Ontario Historical Society for Marion Dewar: A Life of Action, a Feminist History Society Book, (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2016). The award honours the best book on women’s history in... More
Monday, May 15, 2017
History Professor David Dean has published "Negotiating accuracy and authenticity in an Aboriginal King Lear" in the latest issue of Rethinking History. The article traces the tensions and complications in negotiating various pasts and presents when David worked as Company Historian for English Theatre at the National Arts Centre. It appears as a... More
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
The Department of History is pleased to announce that Professor Norman Hillmer has won the 2015 Stacey Prize for the best book written in that year in the broad area of conflict and society in Canada with O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition. In awarding the prize the judges commended the book for... More
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
At the recent Society for American Archaeology annual meeting held in Vancouver, a constant refrain across multiple sessions was, ‘how do we teach digital literacy in archaeology?’ Digital literacy has long been more complicated than simply assessing websites for veracity or trustworthiness (and even that is still something that many struggle... More
History Professor Paul Litt (cross-appointed with the School of Indegenous and Canadian Studies) examines the original wave of Trudeaumania in his new book. Read the full article, "Trudeaumania: History Professor Examines the Original Wave of Trudeaumania in New Book" by Nick Ward.... More
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Rod Phillips's book, French Wine: A History (published last October by University of California Press), has been short-listed (with two other books) for a 2017 James Beard Award. The James Beard Awards, sometimes called "the Oscars of the food world," are awarded for excellence in cuisine, culinary writing, and culinary education. The awards... More
Monday, March 20, 2017
History Professor David Dean co-wrote an article with Professor Joanna Wojdon that was recently featured in the esteemed Public History Weekly International Blogjournal. The article, entitled "Public History and History Didactics - A Conversation" is available... More
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Three Ottawa historians launch Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada on March 3. A collection of playful and thought provoking historical essays about how animals shape the urban experience, ranging from orcas in Vancouver to rabid dogs in Banff to carthorses in Montreal, the book pushes the reader to think... More
Friday, January 6, 2017
Sheila Jones says Trudeaumania by Carleton History prof, Paul Litt, is the book to buy to understand the cultural phenomenon that was the elder Trudeau. She writes: "Litt’s Trudeaumania is about sex, sizzle and popular culture. Sex, he writes, had become the central obsession of a pop culture, which 'exploited its power to titillate and... More
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Rod Phillips's latest book, French Wine: A History (published by University of California Press last October) has been getting excellent early reviews. It was listed in "The Best Books on Drink of 2016" by The Guardian (UK), with the comment, "almost every page contains a gem." It also won "Best Wine History Book" published in... More
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Professor Paul Litt, professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies and the Department of History, recently had his latest book, Trudeaumania, published by UBC Press, reviewed in The Star. A short excerpt is below with the full article, "New Books put Trudeaumania in fresh perspective", available online. But it is Paul Litt’s... More
In keeping with her ongoing research on children and childhood, Audra Diptee has recently published the article "'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808." It is a chapter in the edited collection, The Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations (2016). The collection was... More
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