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...

James Steven Byrne  Danielle Kinsey began the inaugural post on this blog by referring to her experience as an undergraduate studying history in the 1990s. Like Danielle, I...

James Steven Byrne  In my previous post, I focused on using explicit discussion of genre conventions in assigned readings as a tool for engaging students with historians’...

PDF In the rapidly changing employment environment, students benefit from knowing how to apply the skills they acquire in classrooms to their everyday lives and careers....

The CHA Annual Meeting will happen in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia, June 3rd to 5th, 2019, and if you want a game plan for hitting as many Teaching and...

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...

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...

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...

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...