In August 2024 representatives from multiple online history projects, universities, and public history institutions met in London to discuss key topics in online knowledge mobilization. Over the next ...

In August 2024 representatives from multiple online history projects, universities, and public history institutions met in London to discuss key topics in online knowledge mobilization. Over the ...

By Alan MacEachern I drew, when I was a kid. I drew goalies and traded them for hockey cards with guys in my class. I drew horses and gave them to girls, no exchange required. But as chapter books ...

Donald Wright Nov 8, 1962; Nashville, TN, USA; Picketers, calling for an end to segregation in places of public accommodation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

One of the author’s Belgian Shepherds, Khan, herding sheep. Photo courtesy of Fraser Telford. My collections would, perhaps, better be termed a “pack” and a “herd”; the “collections” that both inform ...