YFile Article – January 18, 2018 Noa Yaari In the last tutorial of the fall term, students in the History course Making Money drew their early memories on money. This exercise, given by artist and Teaching Assistant Noa Yaari, builds on two writing assignments Course Director Professor David Koffman gave that term. The first […]
Globalizing Confederation brings together original research from 17 scholars to provide an international perspective on Canada’s Confederation in 1867. In seeking to ascertain how others understood, constructed or considered the changes taking place in British North America, Globalizing Confederation unpacks a range of viewpoints, including those from foreign governments, British colonies, and Indigenous peoples. Exploring perspectives from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, […]
Dear Colleagues: Much to my delight, I came in today to find a new book by our colleague Molly Ladd-Taylor. Published by Johns Hopkins Press, it is entitled Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century. The description is below. Please join me in congratulating Molly on this wonderful achievement. Between […]
Source: https://utorontopress.com/ca/roads-to-confederation-4 and https://utorontopress.com/ca/roads-to-confederation-5 In recognition of Canada’s sesquicentennial, this two-volume set brings together previously published scholarship on Confederation into one collection. The editors sought to reproduce not only the “classic” studies about the people, ideas, and events associated with the passage of the British North America Act, 1867, but also scholarly works that capture […]
Source: Y-File Article, Nov. 1, 2017 An article on Glenn Gould and the history of technology has earned York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep the prestigious 2017 Abbot Payson Usher Prize. The Usher Prize is awarded for the best scholarly work published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society for the History of […]
The Department of History congratulates their current and former students for several award nominations and one win at this year’s Heritage Toronto Awards (October 23rd, 2017). York History PhD graduate Jay Young won the Short Publications Award at the Heritage Toronto awards for his chapter “Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of […]
Read York University History Professor Adrian Shubert’s recent articles here: Que se passe-t-il en Catalogne? (with Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez) Los límites de la vía canadiense
It is a pleasure to announce that our colleague Josh Fogel has just published a new book entitled Japanese for Sinologists. The description of this book, co-authored with Fumiko Joo, can be found at the end of this message. Please join me in congratulating Josh on his latest accomplishment but he has requested that […]
Nick Rogers just received, hot off the press, copies of his latest book entitled Bristol From Below: Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City. The book, co-authored by Steve Poole, is published by Boydel Press. Please join me in congratulating Nick and in celebrating our wonderfully productive department. Description of book: Bristol from […]