Congratulations to Drs. Alan Sears and Carla Peck on the publication of their new book, Rescuing Reason: How History Education Can Help Save Democracy (UTP, 2026)!
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Well this is interesting and unexpected. I'd recommend reading Tim Cook's Lifesavers and Body Snatchers if you're interested in background info on the practice. 🗃️ #cdnhist
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Get ready for #CivicLearningWeek March 9–13! This page houses open-access, ready-to-use NCSS resources on civil discourse, constitutional inquiry, political polarization, and culturally responsive civic engagement: hubs.li/Q0431ByK0 #edusky
Meet Dr. Alan Sears, Professor Emeritus of Social Studies Education at the University of New Brunswick.
Dr. Sears continues to be a prominent voice in the field of history education through his research and publications.
Learn more at: thinking-historically.ca/dr-alan-sears/
Rooting out Antifa in the Canadian Forces, you say? Good luck with that: there's something of an Antifa tradition there... #cdnpoli #cdnhist
Photo: Soldiers of the Lake Superior Regiment with captured Hitler Youth flag, Friesoythe, Germany, 1945. @library-archives.canada.ca PA-167250.
I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK
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Important read from LaGarrett King on U.S. 250th. "If we restrict our definition to those founders, we ignore the contributions of women, Native Americans, the poor, and Black people who were excluded from these gatherings by racism, sexism, and classism." www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Between @mark-carney.bsky.social's Heated Rivalry fandom and the impending Winter Olympics, you may be wondering, "When did a maple leaf first appear on Cdn sport uniforms?" I gotcha covered, and thinking about a Heated Rivalry spinoff featuring 19c cricketers... #cdnhist #vexillology #cdnpoli
"Alberta’s right-wing Social Credit government fed anti-communist sentiment; the rat, like communism, had the potential to dismantle the province’s economic structure and way of life." - @fvreilly.bsky.social
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Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink derrière un podium. Sur l’écran une image de son livre.
Quel plaisir d’entendre Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink présenter son livre à Ottawa lundi, lorsqu’il a reçu le Prix d’histoire canadienne de la Gouverneure-Générale. #cdnhist
The cover of the trade paperback edition of the first volume of Gotham Central.
“Gotham Central” (2002-06) by Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka with art by Michael Lark was a police procedural set in Batman’s Gotham City. It was an innovative and influential revisionist story, underscoring and reframing the human costs of the superheroism. 1/7 #GothamCentral #Batman #ComicsStudies
Read the latest news from the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future team - December 2025 : us20.campaign-archive.com?u=91bf5d113a...
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Reminded, recently, of a couple of COVID CPD sessions that I put together 4 Sam Jones at BeBold History on teaching historical interpretations back in May and June 2020. If you're interested in teaching about differing perspectives on the past, the recordings might be 4 U.
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People need to stop doing this
From the vaults for Remembrance Day: for TVO @tvotoday.bsky.social I wrote about how communities across Ontario built First World War memorials during the 1920s and 1930s #cdnhistory #remembranceday
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FIFA Puskas Award nominee at the #CanPL final, why the heck not 🥶🚲
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Side research find: here's an encyclopedia ad where the main question would stir up plenty of debate as to some of the answers provided.
(I mean, c'mon...Henry Hudson as the birth of Canada?)
Source: Chatelaine, November 1965 #vintagead #canadianhistory
Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.
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And Sportsnet crashed. Radio time for the eleventh
Another egregious use of the notwithstanding clause. The right wing populist governments in this country are a scourge.
In 1890, Expresses left Halifax at 1.30pm and arrived at Lévis at 10.40am the following day - about 20hrs of travel time. But how often was it on time? LAC has govt railway logs for the period, so I suppose average performance could be (maybe has been) calculated.
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Help your students navigate a complex online world in this new age of AI.
This free workshop will provide an overview of the CTRL-F resources designed for students in grades 4-12 to strengthen their digital media literacy skills.
Register today at ctrl-f.ca/workshops
People always aske me "What does SIFT for AI look like?" Meaning, what is the minimal set of habits you need to teach students to use it effectively for exploration of claims online? It's taken a couple years to get here but this is a start at a response mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/get-it-in-...
“When democracy deteriorates, you need more and better civic education. If there is a pandemic, you need to send in the nurses and the doctors. It’s the same thing with a democracy crisis — civic educators are the nurses.”
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Laurence Rees offers important insights into the Nazi mind, as explored in his recent publication ‘The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History’, in our 'Dialogues in Holocaust Education' podcast series.
Listen here: holocausteducation.org.uk/dialogues-in...
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My op-ed, in today's Toronto Star, on the notwithstanding clause. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
England have been so efficient in the red zone and Canada do wasteful in the same spots and that’s your ball game.
Brilliant game from the hosts. Canada had such a brave tournament. Tough to lose like this.
Here is a question for #HistoryEducation. What makes a good Teaching History article? A short thread for #historyteacher s.
Teaching History is a journal published by @histassoc.bsky.social and read by thousands of teachers. (Is that the right 'number'?)
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