By Martha Attridge Bufton, Interdisciplinary Studies Librarian, Carleton University & Pamela J. Walker, Professor of History, Carleton University In the spring of 2017,...

Mairi Cowan Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga Partway through a lecture a few weeks into HIS101, I show an image of a couple of pages from...

Congratulations!  You survived the first week back to class.  The barrage of social media posts reminding you, some reassuring, some with funny memes and others that may...

Since at least the 1970s, CHA members have asked for more teaching and learning content at the Annual Meeting and since the 1990s, the Council has been working towards...

By Penny Bryden In my last post, I talked about my ambivalence about using textbooks in my courses and how they can become like expensive wallpaper for a course. Despite...

By Penny Bryden I have a long, but admittedly ambivalent, relationship with history textbooks.  As an undergraduate student at Trent University, textbooks simply weren’t...

Syllabi, primary sources, learning—these are all constant themes on the Teaching and Learning Committees’ weekly phone calls. So it should be no surprise that, when Dr...

As I sit at my desk, a warm summer breeze carries the scent of ocean air through my office window. I’ve recently began my new position as assistant professor in the...

By Danielle Kinsey I sat down to write about the hows of TA management, but quickly realized that the discussion can’t begin until we acknowledge a simple fact that would...

Karen Robert, Associate Professor St. Thomas University After more than twenty years’ experience teaching at the university level, what advice would you give to new...

This past winter, I taught a second-year survey course on the history of Atlantic Canada since Confederation. Barring the odd guest lecture in the classrooms of supervisors...

Welcome, all, to syllabus-writing season!  by Danielle Kinsey When faced with the task of creating a new course, let’s be real about what we do: we go online and see...