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Rachel Koopmans publishes Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England

Department of History congratulates Rachel Koopmans on the publication this week of her first book, Wonderful to Relate: Miracle Stories and Miracle Collecting in High Medieval England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 328 pp.). Here’s a description of the volume: While the late Anglo-Saxons rarely recorded saints’ posthumous miracles, a shift occurred as monastic writers of the late eleventh and […]

Avie Bennett Historica Chair lecture looks at first lesbian sexual assault case

University of Ottawa Professor Constance Backhouse will discuss what is considered Canada’s first prosecution of a woman for sexually assaulting another woman next Tuesday, when she gives the annual Avie Bennett Historica-Dominion Institute Chair in Canadian History public lecture. The lecture, “From a Kiss to the Courts: Canada’s First Capital ‘L’ Lesbian Sexual Assault Trial”, […]

New book questions US Supreme Court’s sexually libertarian image

York history Professor Marc Stein grew up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s with a passionate faith in the US Constitution and US Supreme Court as strong protectors of freedom, equality and democracy in the post-war era.  That faith was shaken in the 1980s when the Supreme Court justices upheld state sodomy laws, […]

Susan Roy publishes Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community

Department of History congratulates Dr Susan Roy, our new SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the History Department, on the publication of her book, These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community, published recently by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 240pp. For further details, see http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2495. Here’s a summary of the volume: Archaeologists studying human remains and burial sites of North America’s […]

Dr. Sharon Wall, wins THIRD award for her book The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anti-modernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55

Department of History congratulates Dr. Sharon Wall, former doctoral student in the GHP, for her THIRD award for her book The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Anti-modernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press). This third award — the English-language book prize of the Canadian History of Education Association — joins the Floyd S. Chalmers Award […]

York grad wins two prizes for history of summer camp in Ontario

Historian and York grad Sharon Wall (PhD ’03) has won two awards for her book, The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press). In the spring, the book won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2010 Clio Prize for Ontario, and now it has won the Champlain Society’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award […]

Jay Young Interviewed on Metro Morning

Department of History congratulates Jay Young on the engaging interview with Matt Galloway on Metro Morning this morning about your PhD research on the history of Toronto’s subway. You have selected a fascinating topic for your doctoral thesis and you conveyed its importance very impressively. I’m sure the interview will help pique listeners’ interest in […]

Sharon Wall wins Canadian Historical Association’s Clio prize for Western Canadian History and the Champlain Society’s Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History

Last winter, one of York’s recent PhD graduates, Sharon Wall, published a book entitled The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 (UBC Press) In the spring, it won the Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Prize for Western Canadian History, and now the Champlain Society has just awarded it the Floyd S. Chalmers […]

History and political science student wins prestigious essay prize

Sheri Crawford, a double major in history and political science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, is one of 10 undergraduates across Canada to win a coveted student essay prize from the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). Along with the entire Department of History, Patrick Monahan, vice-president academic & provost, […]

York’s history nominated for Heritage Toronto book award

York’s history – and York’s historian – are in the running for an award tonight. York University: The Way Must Be Tried, written for York’s 50th anniversary in 2009 by University Historian & Professor Emeritus Michiel Horn, has been nominated in the book category of the 36th annual Heritage Toronto Awards. The category recognizes excellent […]