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Thursday, October 8, 2015
With colleagues Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo) and Scott Weingart (Indiana University) Carleton's digital historian Shawn Graham has written a pioneering book on big data and history. The book describes and demonstrates the ways data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research, and in teaching and learning. It... More
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Professor Rod Phillips' book Alcohol: A History has been published by the University of North Carolina Press. Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and... More
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Book Launch: Friday, September 25, 12:30-2:30pm in the History Lounge, Paterson Hall You are invited to attend the launch of E. Maud Graham's memoir, A Canadian Girl in South Africa (University of Alberta Press, 2015). Originally published in 1905, Graham’s memoir describes her experience as a teacher in the concentration camps established for... More
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Don't miss Michel Hogue and the University of Regina Press at Congress this year, where they will be launching Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People. Metis and the Medicine Line looks at "how national borders and notions of race were created and manipulated to unlock access to indigenous... More
Thursday, April 9, 2015
We're delighted to announce the recent publication of Invisible Immigrants: The English in Canada since 1945 (March 2015) by Carleton's Marilyn Barber and Murray Watson (Dundee University, Scotland) by University of Manitoba Press. About Invisible Immigrants The book documents the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada... More
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
When David Dean was invited by Peter Hinton (then artistic director of the National Art Centre’s English Theatre) to participate in a 2006 workshop of theatre professionals discussing the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, he had little idea that it would lead to several years of working with the English Theatre Company on... More
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Professor Tim Cook has recently been featured in the Globe and Mail, discussing his new book The Necessary War, Volume 1. Read the whole story, "Going the distance to chronicle Canada's necessary... More
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam has recently published "Desecrating the Sacred Taste: The Making of Gurram Jashua - the Father of Dalit Literature in Telegu" in The Indian Economic and Social History Review. Click here to read the full... More
Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe since 1945, has recently been published by Bloomsbury. Edited by Jennifer Evans and Matt Cook, the volume also features work from Jane Freeland, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. "Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the... More
Friday, May 30, 2014
The Wallace K. Ferguson Prize is awarded annually by the Canadian Historical Association to the best book in history other than Canadian. Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space... More
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Shawn Graham has just published two chapters in Kevin Kee (ed) Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014): ‘Rolling Your Own: On Modding Commercial Games for Educational Goals’ pp. 214-254 and, authored with Kevin Kee, ‘Teaching history in an age of pervasive computing: the... More
Matthew Bellamy's "I was Canadian: The Globalization of the Canadian Brewing Industry" recently came out in Andrew Smith and Dimitry (eds.) Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2014): 206-230.... More
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