The U.S. Studies Program invites you to: “Perverted Justice: (Homo)Sexuality and Female Juvenile Delinquency in U.S. Popular Culture, 1920-1940” Anastasia Jones When: 6 March 2014, 11:30am – 1pm. Where: Vari Hall 2183 Anastasia Jones is a Toronto-based historian who earned her B.A. at Concordia in 2006 and her Ph.D. at Yale in 2013. In 2009, […]
Senior graduate student in environmental history, Dagomar Degroot, was interviewed Today in the Toronto Star: Read article: Toronto winter blues: why the cold may be getting you down
The History Matters series, it is a collaboration between the Toronto Public Library (TPL), ActiveHistory.ca, members of York University’s Graduate History Program, and starting this year Heritage Toronto. The purpose of these free public lectures is to provide opportunities for professional historians and graduate students to present their research outside the context of academia and […]
Congratulations to our colleague, Boyd Cothran, whose short article, “The Valentine’s Day Treaty,” was published today by The New York Times, as part of its Disunion series on the Civil War. Boyd’s article explores the Valentine’s Day settlement negotiated in 1864 between California lawyer Elijah Steele and the Klamanth-Basin people. The agreement was based on […]
Dear members of the history department, Historians will want to join me in congratulating our colleague Thabit Abdullah on the appearance of his Mandarin translation of A Short History of Iraq Here a brief description of the book: Since the war in Iraq in 2003 and the consequent occupation of the country by British and […]
Sean Kheraj appeared on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin on January 8th. The episode focused on the question, “Does History Matter?” The premise of the program was that Canadians seem to be dissociated from history and that historical context is not adequately incorporated in public discourse and news media. Panelists were asked to explain this […]
Dear colleagues, I’m sure you will all wish to join me in congratulating our colleague in the LA&PS Department of History, Nick Rogers, on the publication of his book, Manning the Royal Navy in Bristol: Liberty, Impressment and the State, 1739-1815 (Bristol Record Society Pub., vol. 66: Bristol, 2014). His book is an edited collection […]
Read Full Story Related: Huge congratulations to History professor William Wicken for winning the Sir John A. MacDonald Prize, a Governor General’s Award and the Clio Prize for Atlantic Canadian History
Bettina Bradbury and Adrian Shubert attended the Induction and Awards Ceremony in the Royal Society of Canada Annual General Meeting celebrated in Baff, Alberta, on November 16, 2013. This ceremony officially welcomes new Fellows into the Society. The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) was established under an Act of Parliament in 1882 as the senior […]
Dear members of the history department, It gives me enormous pleasure to announce that our colleague Nick Rogers has won the John Ben Snow prize for the best book written by a North American scholar in the field of British studies for the period before 1800. He received the award at this year’s meeting of […]