My route to becoming a History professor was not straightforward. I never completed high school. My undergraduate education was interrupted by a fifteen-year pause, during...

Structuring the Course, Part 1 Thanks to my History Department colleagues and the academic vice-president, I was able to offer thematic World History courses that were...

Structuring the Course, Part 2 Following last week’s post, I will conclude by discussing other key decisions I made in organizing my thematic World History courses in the...

By Danielle Kinsey and Anne Trépanier   In 2015, Professor Trépanier, a specialist in Quebec Studies and Public History at Carleton University was awarded a “Teaching...

Dominique Brégent-Heald is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. There, she teaches courses in American film history...

By Danielle Kinsey   In March 2018, Professors Michelle Hamilton and Michael Dove, both public historians in the department of history at the University of Western Ontario,...

Take Six with Mairi Cowan By Danielle Kinsey and Mairi Cowan   In October 2018, Professor Mairi Cowan, a specialist in the medieval and early modern histories of Scotland...

When talking about the ways to approach a teaching and learning blog, we tasked ourselves with reaching out to colleagues across the country. Historians working in Canada can...

Let me start this blog by making a bold, unstudied, anecdotal, entirely presentist, and not unemotional statement: teaching history is way harder than it used to be.   I...