Dear historians, It is with great pleasure that I’m writing to announce the publication of our History colleague Carolyn Podruchny’s latest book. Contours of a People: Métis Family, Mobility and History (xxxi + 482 pp.), a collection of essays co-edited by Carolyn, Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press […]
The third installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s six–part audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) website. This episode is the first of two that will examine the history of the environmental movement in Canada. The environmental movement is one of the […]
The Department of History offers its warmest congratulations to History Professor Paul Lovejoy on the publication of his latest book, a collection of essays on The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery: New Directions in Teaching and Learning. Co-edited with Benjamin Bowser, Professor Emeritus at California State University at East Bay, the volume is the product […]
The Department of History congratulates History PhD student Karlee Sapoznik on the pending publication of her book The Letters and Other Writings of Gustavas Vassa (alias Olaudah Equiano, the African): Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade. To be published by Markus Wiener in mid–April 2013, the book was launched last week at the Annual conference […]
The Department of History congratulates Professor Nicholas Rogers on the publication of his latest book: Mayhem:Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53, this week. Prof. Jonathan Edmondson, Chair of the History Department, said “many of us have heard parts of this volume as papers at earlier research seminars or conferences, most recently the chapter on […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate York History Professor Bettina Bradbury after her book about two generations of widows in 19th century Montreal, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal won the Lionel Groulx-Foundation Yves-Saint Germain prize from the Institute of History of French America. The book follows the lives […]
The second installment of History Professor Sean Kheraj’s six–part audio podcast series “Histories of Canadian Environmental Issues” is now available on the NiCHE website. Each episode in the series examines historical perspectives on a number of different pertinent environmental issues for Canadians, including: Climate Change; Aboriginal Peoples, Health, and Environment; The Canadian Environmental Movement; Fisheries; […]
York Department of History professor Marcel Martel will help launch his new book Speaking Up: A history of language and politics in Canada and Quebec Wednesday December 5, at the Gladstone Hotel. Published by Between the Lines, Speaking Up presents a wide overview of the history of the relationship between language and politics in Canada […]
The Department of History would like to congratulate third-year student Bridget Moir on her receipt of an Honourable Mention in the 2011-2012 LA&PS Student Essay Prize Competition at the 2000-level. Moir was nominated by Prof. William Wicken for her paper “The Fabricated Nationalism of L.M. Montgomery: Historical Reinterpretation vs. Reality in Public Commemoration”, written for […]
The Department of History congratulates History PhD student Mary Janigan on the publication of her book Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus the Rest Since Confederation. The book, published by Random House Press was launched to great fanfare at Massey College Nov. 14. Describing the book, Random House says; “The […]