{"id":27213,"date":"2025-10-28T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=27213"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:38:31","slug":"carleton-history-department-marks-the-passing-of-historian-tim-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2025\/carleton-history-department-marks-the-passing-of-historian-tim-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton History Department marks the passing of Historian Tim Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton History Department marks the passing of Historian Tim Cook\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carleton History Department mourns the loss of Historian and colleague Tim Cook. Tim was best known for his work as a historian at the Canadian War Museum, but he also collaborated with the History department as an adjunct research professor. He taught several upper level courses &nbsp;for which he was recognized with teaching awards and was a very valued graduate supervisor for many students. He had a passion to communicate his specialty, Canadian military history, to a wide audience. As such he could often be heard on the radio talking about soldiers or other topics related to military history. Audiences got a sense of his deep compassion for these men and his desire to humanize their experiences. He was committed to good writing without shirking extensive and painstaking archival research. He believed that the discipline of history was an art as well as a science. &nbsp;His writing was prolific; in all, he published nineteen books as well as many scholarly journal articles.&nbsp; For this production, he was awarded many book prizes and recognitions along with an Order of Canada and an election to the Royal Society. Norman Hillmer, Chancellor\u2019s Professor emeritus, described him as \u201cthe outstanding military historian of Canada of his generation, combining a relentless productivity and insistent scholarship with an accessible prose style that won him extensive academic and popular recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Cook\u2019s work and words will live on but he will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carleton History Department mourns the loss of Historian and colleague Tim Cook. Tim was best known for his work as a historian at the Canadian War Museum, but he also collaborated with the History department as an adjunct research professor. 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