By Stephanie Bangarth and Sara Beth Keough In March 2026, a Canadian historian and an American Geographer met in Cambridge, ON to begin a collaborative project, literally “between friends,” ...

By Fred Burrill This post is part of the Tenants’ Collective Responses to Housing Crises across Canada series. One of capitalism’s most powerful myths is that of supply and demand. Take housing, ...

By Roberta Lexier For early twentieth-century Marxists, fascism was, explains Alberto Toscana in his 2023 book, Late Fascism, “intimately linked to the prerequisites of capitalist ...

Leanne Powers, digital illustration by Ayo Tsalithaba for The Pussy Palace Oral History Project, LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory. 2025. “Suddenly, I heard nothing outside, and that was when ...

The thoughts and sentiments shared in this essay are our own and do not represent the Nova Scotia Museum or Shelburne Historical Society. As part of the significant cuts set out in the 2026-2027 Nova ...

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. – Antonio Gramsci What will future historians ...

“Prime Minister Trudeau raises his hands as he jokingly encourages stronger applause from students at Carleton University Tuesday night at the taping of a television show. The confrontation between ...

P918-1067 Mullins Photography Ltd. fonds, PANB, Fredericton, N.B., October 1998. I have made an error. These are not words that come easily to a historian, when ...

This week I talk with Katherine Rollwagen, author of The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar: Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada. We discuss the creation of the ‘classic’ teenager, how ...

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Prince Edward Island is pleased to host the 2026 Atlantic Canada Studies Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, from 3-5 June, 2026. The meeting ...

Access to sources determines what can and cannot be researched. Outside of academia, access also affects the public’s capacity to maintain a tangible link to the past. Collections are especially ...