News You Can Use
September 2010
- First Annual Social Sciences and Humanities Student Conference and Workshop
- CFP: Reimagining the Archive
- American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 40 Issue 3 2010, Culture and the Canada–US Border
- Limina Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies Vol 17, CFP Deadline 30 September 2010
- Forgotten Voices, Living History Conference
BC Educator Subsidy
- 2011 ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS TACHAU TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
- Call for Papers: Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century
August 2010
- HEIRNET conference, 13 -15 September 2010, Hunter College, City University of New York [CUNY]
- UBC gains $900,000 federal award for unique Chinese Canadian history web portal
- ARAB-TURKISH CONGRESS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (ATCOSS-2010)
- “O show us History the Operator, the Organiser”: Why and to what end do we study history? Oct 1 & 2, 2010: 5th LSE International History PhD Conference & Workshop
July 2010
- Call for Papers on Canadian History for a Mexican History Journal
- CFP: Berkeley International and Global History Conference
- CFP: JOURNAL FOR MARITIME RESEARCH
- Riel’s Defence: A conference devoted to Louis Riel’s speeches at his trial for high treason, 1885, October 28 - 30, 2010, University of Windsor
- 3rd Annual Conference of the Atlantic Medieval Association
- Symposium: Historical and Global Perspectives on Provincial and local/regional Parks in Canada - deadline August 2
- Athabasca University's Heritage Resources Management program is accepting registrations for the fall semester's graduate courses
- Items of interest from the National Council on Public History:
Guide to Public History and Related Programs
“Off the Wall” Blog
Jobs in Public History - CFP - Lone Star Legacy: African American History in Texas
- Call for Contributors to a new encyclopedia set called American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Trends that Made
U.S. History
- The Curatorial Intensive: Fall 2010
- Launch of Canadian Studies Program Funding Competition
- Annual Conference for The International Society for the Social Studies February 24-25, 2011 Orlando, FL
- Submissions for new journal Palimpsest
- CFP: The Northwest Affiliate of the World History Association 2010
- Canadian Historical Association letter addressed to Minister Tony Clement following the federal government's intention to eliminate the mandatory Canada long form census questionnaire
- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS - Focus group to determine the needs of secondary school teachers when it comes to educational resources online
- International Society for Ethnology and Folklore - call for panelists for "History and Placemaking"
- Go for gold while Chasing the Golden Butterfly down the Cariboo Waggon Road to Barkerville
- Marc Bloch Prize in Modern European History (15th -21st centuries)
- Call for submissions - Canadian Social Studies
- Call for reviewers: A New Educational Subscription Website on World War Two History
- CALL FOR PAPERS - 2011 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
- WILLIAM AND MADELINE WELDER SMITH RESEARCH TRAVEL AWARD deadline extended to July 31
- UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA RELEASES Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, a documentary source available for the colonial period in BC
June 2010
- University of Victoria Releases Tales of Murder and Intrigue in Colonial Times
- BC Historical Federation is looking for an eye catching and innovative logo
- Call for Papers: RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND EXCHANGE IN ABORIGINAL CANADA
- HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY (UK) CONFERENCE 2010
- CALL FOR PAPERS TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MEDIEVALISMS: RE-ENVISIONING THE MEDIEVAL IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD, KALAMAZOO, MI 12-15 MAY 2011
- Spring school 2011: Global History: Connected Histories or a History of Connections? London, 11-14 April 2011
- "Cold War Encounters" -- 17th Annual Tri-University History Conference, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- CFP: BORDERLANDS ISSUE - JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
- CFP: Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies
- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: ABC-CLIO three-volume general reference set on the history of the nineteen sixties
- Oral History Association Seeks Author for New Pamphlet on Teaching Oral History
- Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, March 3-5, 2011, Call for Papers
- CALL FOR PAPERS – FRIAS-Workshop 'Breaking up Time. Settling the Borders between the Present, the Past and the Future', Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, School of History, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany, 7 – 9 April 2011
- Civil War History Call for Submissions
- Call for papers: The decolonizations in the 20th century
- CALL FOR PAPERS The Northwest Affiliate of the World History Association
- Oral History Workshop near Moab, Utah
- Historiography of war in the Medieval Near East (10th to 15th Century). State of affairs, commonalities, new approaches
- Extended Call For Papers 2010 Melbourne Historical Journal
- Call for papers for a new journal, 'settler colonial studies'.
- CFP: Contest for Continents (The Brock Review)
- Canadian Committee on Women's History: Edging Forward, Acting Up: Gender and Women’s History at the Cutting Edge of Scholarship and Social Action
- Canadian Environmental History Podcast Episode 15 Available
- New Research Hours at the Center for Jewish History
- Asian Countries as Exhibited at World Expositions: Revisited in a Global Historical Perspective
- ICERI 2010 (International Conference of Education Research and Innovation)
- History and International Studies Review (HISR) Call for Papers (for Vols. 1 & 2; Deadline: 1 August 2010)
- CFP: NiCHE New Scholars Place & Placelessness: A Virtual Environmental History Workshop for Graduate Students
- Cultural Heritage on the Web: Access and Exchange of Information
- Call for Papers Historical and Global Perspectives on Provincial and Local/regional Parks in Canada
- CFP: THIRD EUROPEAN CONGRESS ON WORLD AND GLOBAL HISTORY, 14-17 April 2011, London School of Economics & Political Science
- Oral History Forum - Special Issue Launch
- Call for Papers: "Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey"
- UPDATE: 39th Annual UBC Medieval Studies Workshop
- THATCamp Canberra - Humanities and Technology Unconference August 28-29, 2010
- World Forest History - A New Book Series - Call for Authors
- CFP: New Horizons in Maritime History - 15-16 October 2010, King's College, University of Cambridge
- Reminder: HISTORY EDUCATORS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK (HEIRNET) 7th International Conference, 13th-15th September 2010, Hunter College, City University of New York
May 2010
- World Forest History - A New Book Series - Call for Authors
- Call for Papers: Maryland Historical Magazine and the Civil War
- New Horizons in Maritime History - 15-16 October 2010, King's College, University of Cambridge
- Great Questions Essay Competition deadline June 30, 2010
- NCSS Summer Professional Development Workshops
- Parks Canada announces “My Parks Pass” Program
- PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED--First Annual Mid-West World History Association Conference
- 8th Nordic PhD Summerschool in Contemporary History - Extended Deadline for applications
- Digitization Update: National and Provincial Collaborations, June 15, Vancouver BC
- History as a Way of Life - Lecture May 18, Washington DC
- The David Alexander Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on the history of Atlantic Canada written in course by an undergraduate student in any university.
- Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Digitized
- History and Heritage in Brantford
- CFP: New England Historical Association Fall Meeting
- Environments of Mobility in Canadian History – Call for Expressions of Interest
- Young People & Heritage - Journal of Education in Museums – Call for Papers
- Newberry Library Seminar in Latin American History Call for Papers
April 2010
- Announcing the Spring 2010 Edition Lunchtime Lecture Series at the Museum of Civilization
- AHA Equity Awards
- Cundill International Prize and Lecture in History at McGill University
- AHA Cunningham Prize for Best Undergraduate Article
- NEW WEBSITE! Piece by Piece: The Great Western Garment Story
- CFP - Medieval Studies Conference - Let the Games Begin: The Medieval World at Play, Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield,19th - 20th June 2010
March 2010
- More than Just Games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics, school tours until June 18, 2010
- Institute for Historical Studies: Independence and Decolonization, April 15-17 (Th-Sat.), 2010, The University of Texas at Austin
- 2010 CHA ANNUAL MEETING: "Telling Stories/Storytelling," May 30 - June 1 2010
- Call for manuscript submissions--American history, military history
- Call for contributors to a new series of lesson plans for secondary teachers
- CFP - Conference: The Idea of Home since the Second World War
- CFP - ORAL HISTORY AND FIELDWORK, The (Re)use and Interpretation of Research Materials, Helsinki, 2–3 December 2010
- HISTORY EDUCATORS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK (HEIRNET) 7th International Conference, 13th-15th September 2010, Hunter College, City University of New York
- Etienne Baluze prize for European local history
- New Publication - The New Museum Community: Audiences, Challenges, Benefits
- CFP - The Newberry Library Urban History Dissertation Group
- CFP - The Newberry Library Seminar in Early American History and Culture
- CFP - The Enkidu Summer Conference 2010: Storytelling, Memories and Identity Constructions, México City, 28 July - 2 August 2010
- RICHMOND DELTA REGIONAL HERITAGE FAIR, April 30th – May 2nd, 2010, Richmond BC
- CFP: “Just watch me!” 40th Anniversary of the October Crisis and War Measures Act in Canada, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), October 5 - 7, 2010
- Ethnohistory conference panel members & chair request
- ORAL HISTORY AND NEW MEDIA WORKSHOP DAY Saturday May 29, 2010, Concordia University
- Friends of the German Historical Institute Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize
- History of Education Society is accepting submissions for the Claude A. Eggertsen Dissertation Prize
- CFP: Museums and the Exhibitionary Complex in Central Europe, 1850-1939
- Call for chapter proposals: Revisiting Modern European History: gender, class, nation, religion and race
- 17th British American Nineteenth Century Historians annual conference, 8-10 October 2010, Liverpool
- 2010 Summer Field School in Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes, Quebec, Canada
- CFP: Eras online graduate student journal
- Deadline Reminder - UBC M.Ed. (Focus on Museum Education) - March 31, 2010
- CFP - The Councilor: The Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies
- Call for Reviewers - Maryland Historical Magazine
- New Publication: New Thinking - Rules for the (R)evolution of Museums
- “Crossing Borders/Building Communities—Real and Imagined”: 2011 Annual Meeting, National Council on Public History, April 6-10, 2011, Pensacola, Florida
- Memory and Narrative - Call for Proposals: Evidence and Testimony in Life Story Narratives
- "Western History Dissertation Workshop" June 18, 2010 at UC Davis (application deadline March 30)
- CFP: Women, Suffrage and Citizenship in Oregon, Oregon Historical Quarterly
- "Reviews in History" Website Relaunch
- The Canadian Historical Association comments on New Directions for Library and Archives Canada
- THE JEANIE JOHNSTON FOUNDATION is offering grants for the best three critiques of its website www.irishfamine.ca
- Urban History Association's Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American) 2009
- Urban History Association's Annual Award for Best Article (no geographic restriction), 2009
- Urban History Association's Annual Award for Best Dissertation, 2009
- Australian Historical Association (AHA) Travel and Writing Bursaries for AHA conference, University of Western Australia and Notre Dame, 5–9 July 2010
- CFP: French Historical Studies special issue on “Theorized History”
- CFP: Left History Theme Issue on Active History
- California Council for the Promotion of History’s annual conference, Sonora, Jamestown and Columbia, October 21-23, 2010
- 2010 European Summer School on Cold War History, Bertinoro, Italy, September 1-4, 2010
- CFP- Battleground for Freedom: The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier, July 28-31, 2010, Topeka, Kansas
- Game Changers and History Makers: Women in the Pacific Northwest 63rd Annual Pacific Northwest History Conference
November 3-5, 2010, Spokane, Washington
- Canadian History and Social Science Teachers Association on Facebook
- The Novara Lecture Series in Central European History, New Zealand
- American Historical Association's Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award
- Irene Ledesma Prize for graduate student research
- OVERDYKE AWARDS IN NORTH LOUISIANA HISTORY
- State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grants Call for Applications
- Bursaries for editors of medieval legal texts
- African American history experts needed to author topical reference series volumes
- Upstate Early American History Workshop--Spring 2010, New York
- New issue of Perush, UCLA on-line journal, discusses anti-Semitism and Jewish urban history
- Online collection of oral history interviews -- CANTIGNY FIRST DIVISION ORAL HISTORY PROJECT-II
- Free workshop for teachers: Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization, and the Creation of World Power
- The Curatorial Intensive: Call for Applications
- Japanese Canadian National Museum Speaker Series: A Tragedy of Democracy – Japanese Confinement in North America, by Greg Robinson, March 9, 2010, 7pm, Vancouver
- The Urban Space of the Elites, Urban History Review Call for Papers
- 8th Annual International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern, 28-31 December 2010, Athens, Greece
- Conference recording: Museums | Inclusion | Engagement
- CFP - THE SIXTIES, CANADIAN-STYLE: Where Have All the Sixties Gone? TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL TWO DAYS OF CANADA CONFERENCE, NOVEMBER 4-5, 2010, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
February 2010
- Volunteer History Mentors Needed for BC Social Studies 11 Students!
- Begbie Canadian History Contest - Deadline for entries is March 10, 2010; The contest date is April 13, 2010
- Canadian Historical Review Volume 91, Number 1 / March 2010 is now available
- CFP: Conflict, Memory and Memorialisation: War and European Culture in the Twentieth Century, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, 17-19 July 2010
- THE 150!CANADA CONFERENCE, MARCH 11-12, 2010, NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE, OTTAWA
- Michigan Historical Review seeks proposals for articles to be included in a spring 2012 special issue on the War of 1812 in the Great Lakes region
- Call for proposals - AUSTRALIAN EARLY MEDIEVAL ASSOCIATION SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE: COURAGE AND COWARDICE, 18-19 November 2010, University of Western Australia
- Call for papers for the Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales 2011Urban and Social development in Damascus from medieval to
modern times (early 12th - end 18th centuries) - Alberta Museums Association Conference 2010 Call for Proposals - Place-Making: Museums and Building Community, September 23 - 25, 2010, Edmonton, Alberta
- American Historical Association Beveridge Family Teaching Prize (K-12)
- Summer School in Comparative and Transnational History, Theories, Methodology and Case Studies, Florence Italy, 13-17 September 2010.
- ANNUAL LEGACY ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP, San Francisco, August 5-7, 2010
- Today In Canadian History, Call for Participants
- University of California, Berkeley - 2010 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute
- Public Screening, Ohanashi: The Story of Our Elders, Vancouver BC
- The History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award
- CFP: From Pierre-Esprit Radisson to Louis Riel: voyageurs and Metis, Saint Boniface November 18-20, 2010.
- CFP: “We Demand”: History/Sex/Activism In Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 25-28, 2011
- Columbia University Oral History Research Office 2010 Annual Summer Institute, “Oral History from the Ground Up: Space, Place and Memory,” June 7- June 18, 2010
- Royal Society of Canada Symposium: Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada, Friday, March 26- Saturday, March 27, 2010, Saint Mary's University, Halifax
- Peace Reconciliation Study Tour for Canadian Teachers - China, application deadline Feb 15
- Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada, April 22-24, 2010, University of Toronto
- Call for Papers / Submissions - 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Lord Elgin Hotel, October 13-17, 2010
- International Summer School Scholarships 2010: The School of History and Anthropology
- Gilder Lehrman Institute Summer Seminar and Teaching American History Grant Opportunities
- Cultural History in Europe. Institutions - Themes - Perspectives. International Conference of the FSP Historical Cultural Sciences at the University of Mainz
- Seeking a Commentator for a Panel at the Missouri Valley History Conference in March 2010
- Looking for panelist for 2011 AHA in Boston, History, Society and the Sacred
- FINAL CFP: Canadians in the US
- 8th Nordic Summer School in Contemporary History Transformation, Transfer, Transdisciplinarity. Doing History Beyond the Nation-State in the 21st Century
- Smithsonian Institution Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
- Call for Applications: "Decisions and History," The 2010 SHAFR Summer Institute
- Canadian Aboriginal HIstory Book Prize - deadline February 15, 2010
- Publishing for a Wide Audience - Graduate Student Workshop at University of British Columbia, March 26, 2010
- The Canadian Museums Association (CMA) is pleased to announce its renewed commitment to delivering the Young Canada Works (YCW) Program for summer 2010
- Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture: Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH) - Summer School for Graduate Students and Young Scholars
- Call for Paper and Panel Proposals: Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, 18-21 November 2010, Chicago,
Illinois
- Seeking contributors to a panel for 2011 AHA (and/or CLAH) conference by February 5.
- EUROCLIO to feature in BBC World Service Documentary to air from Wednesday 3rd February- Sunday 7th February.
- CHIN's Digital Heritage Symposium: Making the Connection: Museums, Visitors & New Technologies, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Feb 4-5, 2010
- Ojibwe Cultural Foundation calendar 2010. $12 each, or for $10 each for orders of 10 copies and over. Call (705) 377-4902. Mail orders accepted but shipping and handling fees will be applied.
- THEN/HiER's website wins Summit International Emerging Media Award.
- The Relationship of Library and Archives Canada with the Historical Research Community - study asks for your input.
- Museums Association of Saskatchewan's Annual Conference, May 26-28 Saskatoon.
- CFP: The Canadian Historical Review
- CFP: Conference on Public History Narratives of Native American and African American Histories
- Seeking a Discussant For an AHA 2011 Panel on non-European soldiers who were agents in European war and empire in the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
- Study conducted by the Brant Historical Society will help shape the direction of museums
- Louis Riel, an opera in three acts performed by UBC Opera at the Chan Centre, Feb 4-7, 2010
- History of Education Best Article Award
- CFP: Canadian Society of Medievalists, "Connected Understanding," Congress 2010 - Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, May 29, 30, 31
- CFP: Seventeenth Biennial Conference of the American Council for Québec Studies, La Francophonie Américaine/The French North American Experience: Tributaries and Confluences
- CFP: MIGRATIONS - Scientific Perspectives and Museum Mediations, Québec City, Musée de la civilisation, November 4 to 6, 2010
- Centre for Historical Culture Newsletter, Dec. 2009
- Government of Canada has decided to end its funding of the Canadian Council on Learning.
- Final CFP (Jan 15): Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, "What Makes Public History Different?" Carleton University, Ottawa, March 4-5, 2010.
- Montreal History Group, Jeudis d'histoire 2010
- Research Seminar for Dissertation-Stage PhD Students, Recent PhDs, and Junior Faculty: Communicating Culture in Early Modern Europe, 24 May – 23 June, 2010 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
- The National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre exhibition: Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank Jan 16 - March 13, and Speaker Series Jan 28
- "Canyon War: The untold story" debuts January 15, 7 p.m. on The Knowledge Network
- History and Classics Graduate Student Association Annual Graduate Student Conference, "The Past is Not Yet Written: Innovative Approaches and New Ideas in Historical Research," University of Alberta, March 5-6, 2010
- UBC's innovative Master of Education program in Curriculum Studies (Focus on Museum Education) brings together museum educators, heritage interpreters, teachers, and scholars to explore teaching and learning beyond the classroom.
December 2009
- “Anishinaabewin: Modes of Knowlege, Ways of Life” - A gathering hosted by the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation, Sudbury ON, February 26-27, 2010
- Ontario Visual Heritage Project: History of Ontario's Near-North Region Featured in New Documentary Series on TVO
- The Editorial Board of the Canadian Historical Review announces the winner of the CHR Prize for the best article published in the journal in the year 2009, Mary Ellen Kelm.
- International Conference: Thinking Historically in Globalization Times (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- Call for Papers: Second Military Oral History Conference: Between Memory and History - Victoria, BC, Canada, 5-7 May 2010
- Call for Papers: "Making Networks, Making History/Construire des réseaux, faire l'histoire." The 7th annual McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference in History to be held 12 & 13 March 2010 at McGill University in Montréal, Québec.
- CBC contest for secondary and post-secondary students - Love, Hate and Propaganda: World War Two for a New Generation
- New from the Critical Thinking Consortium (TC2). Pivotal Voices. Exploring Identity, Inclusion and Citizenship: The 1907 Vancouver Riots
- UBC Okanagan students bring history into the present - YouTube videos, scale models and interviews help tomorrow's teachers learn
November 2009
- CFP: Relations between Canada, Quebec and Africa since 1960: Achievements and Prospects, Université de Montréal, from 10 to 14 May 2010.
- CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: ABC-CLIO - history of the nineteen sixties.
- CFP: Journal of New Brunswick Studies
- Call for Papers: Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, History Group, 2010 (CCA) June 1-3, Concordia University, Montréal
- "Discover Canada" wiki on history content in citizenship document
- Canadian History of Education Association Founders' Prizes 2010
- Doctoral study opportunity in Environmental History, University of Western Ontario
- Call for Papers: “The New England Planters in the Maritimes: The Next Generation,” Acadia University, Wolfville Nova Scotia
- CALL FOR PAPERS: OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY
- Call for nominations - Sutherland Prize
- 2010 CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PRIZES
- Ph.D. Program in Holocaust History and Genocide Studies
- CFP: Annual Meeting of Ohio Academy of History, 26-27 March 2010
- Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference, University of Sussex, UK, 1-3 July 2010
- Call for papers and reviewers: The Canadian Journal of History, Annales canadiennes dhistoire
- The Relevance of Encounters with Strangers for Historical Consciousness. From the Early Modern Period to the End of the
Long 19th Century (Germany)
- Call for Manuscripts: Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
- Benchmarks Historical Thinking Concepts Used in Conjunction with CBC Learning - "News in Review"
Link to stories. Link to worksheets.
- 2010 Jack and Anita Hess Seminar for Faculty. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: New Sources, New Perspective for Use in Teaching, Washington DC, January 4-8, 2010
- Japanese Canadian National Museum Speaker Series. Dr. Mona Oikawa: Generations of the Internment, Burnaby BC, November 10
- Third annual EESC Prize for Organised Civil Society: European Economic and Social Committee names 2009 winners
- Ninth Annual Discourse Power Resistance Conference (UK)
- New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario, 18 to 20 February 2010
October 2009
- Announcements from The Beaver magazine:
Canada's National History Society has announced the twenty-five finalists for the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History - Canada's top teaching prize. See their biographies and images.
- Heritage Tourism Alliance launches website for ‘time travel’ in British Columbia
- OISE's History and Philosophy of Education program may be axed
- Benchmarks of Historical Thinking Summer Institute, Ottawa, July 5-10, 2010. Application Deadline: April 1, 2010.
THEN/HiER Summer Institute Bursary Application Form
- Western Association of Women Historians 2010 annual award and prize information: Founders' Dissertation Fellowship, Judith Lee Ridge Prize, Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize, Gita Chaudhuri Prize, Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize
- Publishing for a Wide Audience: Graduate Student Workshop, October 19, 2009, London, ON (NiCHE)
- The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives invite you to come hear Dr. Sean Kheraj present Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History.
- Interdisciplinary Call for Papers and Panels 24e Congrès CIEF ( Conseil International D'Etudes Francophones) June 27 - July 4 2010 - Montréal, Canada.
- Facing History and Ourselves. Online seminars for teachers aimed at helping their students make connections between history and their everyday moral choices.
- Media, Mass Culture and Historical Thinking. BCSSTA fall conference, Port Coquitlam BC, October 23, 2009.
- Canadian History of Education Association call for papers: Education in Tough Times – Tough Times in Education
Oct 21-24, 2010 - The Canada Research Chair in the Environmental History of Quebec offers 3 scholarships
- Opportunities for Graduate Study: Departments of History, Geography, and Biology - Memorial University of Newfoundland
September 2009
- Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History: History Cold Cases Gripping Internet Sleuths - media release
- Landmark Merger Creates The Historica-Dominion Institute - Canada’s Largest History and Citizenship Organization.
- The Association for Canadian Studies Student Forum (November 5-6, 2009) and the ACS Symposium on “Knowing Ourselves: The Challenge of Teaching History in Official Language Minority Communities” (November 5-6, 2009), Moncton, New Brunswick.
- New York's Sept 11 museum to display hijacker perspective.
- 3rd Annual NiCHE Call for Projects: The Year of Living Publicly
August 2009
July 2009
- Active History Website - Soliciting Papers
- Tony Taylor (National Centre for History Education, Monash University) has recently published Denial: History Betrayed (Melbourne University Press) and, together with historian Stuart Macintyre (University of Melbourne), is currently finalising the draft history program for the Australian national curriculum, to be introduced in January 2011.
- The historical thinking concepts being promoted by the Benchmarks of Historical Thinking Project have been incorporated into a number of new curriculum documents in Canada. A new grade 10 interdisciplinary course entitled Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 2205 has students use the concepts of historical significance, evidence, cause and consequence, continuity and change, historical perspective, and moral judgement to deepen their sense of identity and appreciation of Newfoundland and Labrador. And a new grade 11 History of Canada course in Manitoba embeds historical thinking concepts throughout the curriculum to provide a foundation for historical inquiry. The Ministry of Education in Prince Edward Island is currently developing a grade 12 course that will incorporate the concepts
June 2009
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Canadian History of Education Association: 16th Biennial Conference "Education in Tough Times – Tough Times in Education" 21-24 October 2010, York University, Toronto, ON
- Dominion Institute's Report Card on Canadian History
May 2009
- Heritage Education, Plurality of Narratives and Shared Historical Knowledge, research program financed by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research
April 2009
March 2009
- THEN|HiER Visiting Doctoral Students 2009
- Conference announcement: “Curating Difficult Knowledge”
- THEN|HiER's First Publication: History Teaching and Learning in Canada: The State of the Art
February 2009
- Four additional small projects grants were awarded: THEN|HiER Small Projects Grants 2009
- History teachers considered less trustworthy than family stories: study
- To read an article about THEN/HiER from the February newsletter of the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, click here.
- Association for Canadian Studies Hosts Bi-national Planning Forum on Teaching and Learning History and Geography on February 24-25, 2009
- Call for Contributions: 2nd Paris International Conference on Education, Economy & Society, Paris (France), Hotel Concorde La Fayette, 21-24 July 2010 - For further information, submission and registration, please visit the conference website at: http://www.education-conferences.org Contact: Paris-Conference@analytrics.org
January 2009
- THEN|HIER Network Manager hired in 2009
- The American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize was awarded to the Center for History and New Media and the History Education Group at Stanford University for their interactive website Historical Thinking Matters <historicalthinkingmatters.org>. The prize is awarded to a teaching aid that contributes to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes. Historical Thinking Matters is designed to teach students how to “think historically” by critically reading primary sources and participating in authentic inquiries about key topics in U.S. history.
- Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness Hosts Lecture on History Education
On February 9, 2009 Visiting Scholar Mario Carretero deliverd the Michael Cromer Memorial Lecture Identity Cards: The Construction of Historical Memory in a Globalized World at the University of British Columbia. His talk will describe, in an international context, the current situation of history teaching and its contribution to the construction of historical memory and national identity. The lecture will also discuss debates over history teaching in five countries—the United States, México and Spain, East Germany and Estonia. For specific details, please visit http://www.cshc.ubc.ca/events_archive.php
December 2008
- H-Net Provides Forum for History Education
- Newly Released Study Units focus on Using Evidence in the Classroom
- Virtual Exhibit Highlights Canada’s Role in Drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
To honour the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights has launched its first virtual exhibition entitled: Everyone has the Right: A Canadian and the Words that Changed the World. The exhibit explores the life of a Canadian, John Peters Humphrey, principal author of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and includes a timeline of his life, a collection of original documents and a discussion of the Declaration itself.
- Independent Review of Primary Curriculum Released in the UK
- Website and Resources Launched about Children and Youth in History
- Library and Archives Canada Marry Web Exhibit and Educational Resources
November 2008
- THEN/HiER Small Projects Grants announced.
- THEN/HiER Visiting Doctoral Students program announced.
- Dominion Institute Launches Macdonald-Laurier Days, an Education Campaign dedicated to Canada’s Early Prime Ministers.
- Six Canadian Teachers Awarded for Bringing History to Life
- Innovative History Website The Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Project Wins Pierre Berton Award
- The Center for History and New Media releases Omeka, a free and open source collections-based, web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts.
- The Dominion Institute Announces New Ontario Veterans Project
October 2008
- THEN/HiER Director Penney Clark organized and chaired the following session at the Association of Canadian Studies’ Sixth Biennial Conference on the Teaching and Learning of History, Quebec City, October 24-25, 2008: “What is the Shape and Place of Historical Thinking in High Schools?” Presenters included: Gerald Friesen (University of Manitoba), Peter Seixas (University of British Columbia), and Mark Perry (Hampton High School, New Brunswick). For more details, click here.
- Historica Foundation of Canada Launches HistoryWire <www.HistoryWire.ca>, an interactive website aimed at providing an opportunity for Canadians to participate in history as it relates to the world today through articles, blogs and video.
March 2008
- THEN/HiER receives SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant. In March 2008, Principal Applicant Penney Clark and Co-Applicants Margaret Conrad, Kevin Kee, Jocelyn Létourneau, Stéphane Lévesque, Ruth Sandwell, Peter Seixas, and Amy von Heyking received word that their November 2007 application to the SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Clusters Grant program was successful. The grant awarded THEN/HiER with 2.1 million dollars over seven years to foster an active dialogue among a wide variety of academics, professionals and practitioners involved in history education in Canada.
June 2006
