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Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Contract Instructor and Carleton History alumnus Dr. Sean Eedy has a new book coming out this month: Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic. (Berghahn Books, February 2021). About the Book As with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state.... More
Thursday, January 28, 2021
The following is a short excerpt from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences website. The full story, "History Professor Wins Prize for Best Book in Mexican History," can be found online. Congratulations to Professor Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (Department of History) for winning the prestigious 2020 María Elena Martínez Prize for best book in Mexican... More
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
The following short excerpt describes why History Professor Chinnaiah Jangam's latest book is included among the top twelve must-read texts on Dalits. The full article by Suraj Yengde, "Twelve books that form part of the arsenal of Dalit writing," can be found online. One of the solid arsenals produced by the Dalit community, apart... More
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
History Alumnus Stuart MacKay, is a historian specializing in the American Republican Party and is currently working on a book about the party during the Civil War era. A short excerpt of the article he wrote for the Washington Post is included below. The full article, "Ted Cruz's proposed election commission can only hurt... More
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
History Alumna Melissa Armstrong sits down with Carleton's Nick Ward to discuss her new book An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile. A short excerpt is included below, with the full article, "Discussing 'An Ambulance on Safari'" available online. Recent History PhD graduate Melissa Armstrong’s new... More
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Professor Patrizia Gentile, cross-appointed with the departments of History, Sociology and Canadian Studies has written a new book entitled Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity (UBC Press, 2020). About the Book As modern versions of the settler nation took root in twentieth-century Canada, beauty became a business. But... More
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
History Professor Jennifer Evans has written a piece in The Conversation that looks at the long-term effects of the Trump presidency, despite his loss to President-Elect Joe Biden. A short excerpt is included below with the full article, "Trump lost, but racism is alive and infused in U.S. history," available online. The United States... More
Monday, November 2, 2020
Jennifer Evans, together with the editorial board of the New Fascism Syllabus project, crafted a letter of concern which garnered the signatures of over 150 scholars, warning of the need to strengthen democratic principles and institutions following the US Election. It has been covered in The Guardian and the Washington Post Excerpt from "Scholars... More
The History Department congratulates Professor Jeff Sahadeo, Director of EURUS, on winning the 2020 Canadian Association of Slavists/Taylor and Francis Book Prize for his book Voices from the Soviet Edge (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019). A short excerpt is provided below, with more details available on the Faculty of Public Affairs... More
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Hot off the press! An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile, the first medical and political history of emergency health care services for MK cadres, South Africans in exile, and local patients in numerous ANC bases in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1990. This important... More
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Associate Professor Monica Patterson (Cross-Appointed with the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and the History Department) has written an article for the American Alliance of Museums detailing how the current pandemic has affected museums and how a new children's museology is emerging as a result. A short excerpt is included below, with the... More
Monday, September 21, 2020
The History Department would like to congratulate Adjunct Research Professor Charlotte Gray for being named one of the finalists in this year's non-fiction category of the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards. A short excerpt can be found below with the full article, "Finalists announced for 2020 Ottawa Book Awards" by Lynn Saxberg of the Ottawa... More
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