Based on an evolving creative practice, artist Feimo Zhu explores how public historians might make decisions about how to ...

By Theodore Aretakis In the recent 2026 Québec elections, one topic once again captured the electorate’s attention: ...

Shannon Stettner Exterior of Woodside National Historic Site. Photograph by the author, December 2025. Last December I ...

This post is an introduction to the series Tomorrow’s Historians: A Reflection on the Graduate Student Experience  By Katie ...

As the teaching of history in Canadian universities seeks to incorporate decolonization, anti-racism, and truth-telling, the ...

By Sarah Kittilsen As a tour guide, I answer a lot of questions. Some are related to the tour itself, but many are not. Guests ask about my life just as much as, if not more than, they ask about ...

This post is an introduction to the series Tomorrow’s Historians: A Reflection on the Graduate Student Experience By Katie ...

Hannah Boller I recently found myself conversing with someone who believed it was their job to point out that the topic for my master’s thesis was totally useless. “Food is not worth studying, and ...

Figure 1. America’s most famous president sells America’s most famous dessert. Source: University of Guelph Archives & Special Collections [UGASC], Jell-O: America’s Most Famous Dessert (LeRoy, NY; ...

Last week, following widespread Black Lives Matter demonstrations across Canada and the rest of the world, a push began to rename Toronto’s Dundas Street. Building upon a similar movement in Edinburgh ...

Access to sources determines what can and cannot be researched. Outside of academia, access also affects the public’s capacity to maintain a tangible link to the past. Collections are especially ...