When I began my career in the 1980s, many of my journalistic colleagues were preoccupied with injustices in El Salvador, Nicaragua or South Africa.
(In)Security in the Time of COVID-19: New Histories of Human Vulnerability, Community Resilience, and the Struggle for Social Justice
Mainstream media outlets continue to pay little attention to the racial and class cartographies of the COVID-19 catastrophe.
Mainstream media outlets continue to pay little attention to the racial and class cartographies of the COVID-19 catastrophe.
Historia Nostra Bookclub: Why I Don’t Like Guns, Germs, and Steel
2021 has been a long year.
2021 has been a long year.
Anti-Racism and Archival Description Work
I’m really grateful for the space this workshop provided to dig into archival challenges and share ongoing work around re-description.
I’m really grateful for the space this workshop provided to dig into archival challenges and share ongoing work around re-description.
In Racial Solidarity: Historicizing Anti-Asian Racism, Violence, and White Supremacy in Canada
What, or who, incited the mob with such racial hate?
What, or who, incited the mob with such racial hate?
Black Identity and the Great War: History From the Bottom Up
I began asking these sorts of new questions and found myself exampling “history from the bottom up.”
I began asking these sorts of new questions and found myself exampling “history from the bottom up.”
Accountability for the Roman Catholic Church’s Role in the Residential School System: Urgent Actions Needed Immediately
The Roman Catholic Church’s response to its role in the residential school system continues to be harmfully insufficient
The Roman Catholic Church’s response to its role in the residential school system continues to be harmfully insufficient
History Slam Podcast 181: Always Pack a Candle
Marion McKinnon Crook's book "Always Pack a Candle: A Nurse in the Cariboo-Chilcotin" traverses British Columbia.
In this episode of the History Slam, I talk with Marion McKinnon Crook about the book.
Anti-Racism and Archival Description Work
How archivists interpret materials impacts findability, access, and researcher use of those records.
How archivists interpret materials impacts findability, access, and researcher use of those records.
Remember/Resist/Redraw #30: Intergenerational Resistance in Vancouver’s Chinatown
But intergenerational communities of resistance have always grown, and intermingled with each other, to challenge these threats.
But intergenerational communities of resistance have always grown, and intermingled with each other, to challenge these threats.
Being a Professor Is Just a Job
Why not work somewhere else?
Why not work somewhere else?
How a Belfast Immigrant to Canada Came To Testify Before the Undercover Policing Inquiry in the UK
In the summer of 1955, Ernest (Ernie) Tate, a young immigrant from Belfast, wandered into the “Toronto Labour Bookstore” on Yonge Street north of Wellesley.
In the summer of 1955, Ernest (Ernie) Tate, a young immigrant from Belfast, wandered into the “Toronto Labour Bookstore” on Yonge Street north of Wellesley.
The Local Spaces of National Museums
Community is a tricky concept.
Community is a tricky concept.
“I Am Totally Shocked That Something of This Sort Could Happen in Canada”: Vancouver’s Gastown Riot Fifty Years Later
On Saturday, 7 August 1971, Vancouver’s Gastown district erupted into chaos as police, some on horse-back and many wielding batons, waded into a throng of “hippies” who had gathered for the Gastown smoke-in & street jamboree.
On Saturday, 7 August 1971, Vancouver’s Gastown district erupted into chaos as police, some on horse-back and many wielding batons, waded into a throng of “hippies” who had gathered for the Gastown smoke-in & street jamboree.
‘This Half Century of Struggle’: A Look Back at Child Care Advocacy
Affordability, accessibility, quality, inclusivity: these are all standards that have been lifted from the child care movement.
Affordability, accessibility, quality, inclusivity: these are all standards that have been lifted from the child care movement.
There Is No Solidarity in a Meritocracy: Precarity in the History Profession in Canada
The Canadian Historical Association must recognize precarity within our discipline for what it is: a form of structural violence.
The Canadian Historical Association must recognize precarity within our discipline for what it is: a form of structural violence.