This week I’m joined by Ian Kennedy, author of Ice in their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck. We talk about the challenge of finding sources for early women’s ...

Alvin Finkel Since the 1970s the proliferation of social histories has challenged once-dominant historical paradigms focused ...

The opening session of Active History’s late-August workshop on knowledge mobilization and public history confronted the changing digital environment and its consequences. Among the digital topics ...

For the past two years, I have had the great pleasure of teaching a course at Carleton University called History in the News (HIST3909A). The idea for the course came from the notion that the ...

One problem is that those engaging in Indian Residential School denialism understand the important role that truth-telling about the past has on social change. If establishing the truth is, as the TRC ...

ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events.

ActiveHistory.ca is a website that connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events.

Content warning: this post contains information regarding Indian Residential Schools. A National Residential School Crisis Line is available to provide support for former Residential School students.

To the extent that we as historians accept as settled the first order questions about AI and instead opt to talk about nuanced details of implementation, I think we risk a very serious mistake. Here, ...