Truth before reconciliation
For nearly two decades, Sean Carleton has focused his work on the history of Canada’s Indian Residential School (IRS) system and the ways that history continues to be challenged today. Carleton is an...
View ArticleRMTC’s The Last Wife a moving take on royal history
One can remember King Henry VIII’s wives with the rhyme, “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,” based on their ultimate fates. However, many would not be able to state anything else...
View ArticleUncovering the secret lives of medieval concubines
Around 600 years ago in Ferrara, Italy, an Inquisitor interrogated dozens of women cohabiting with supposedly celibate clergymen, leaving behind a register that detailed the investigation and its...
View ArticleIndigenous land-based learning through exercise
On Feb. 28, Brian Rice, a professor in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management, led an Indigenous history walk from Upper Fort Garry to St. Boniface, connecting students to the history of...
View ArticleDioramas in the Icelandic Reading Room
The Icelandic Reading Room in the Dafoe Library is a popular study space for students, known for its quiet atmosphere and floor-to-ceiling windows. But have you ever noticed the unsettling art that...
View ArticleExploring U of M archives with Nicole Aminian
I have always wondered what kinds of archives the U of M has and what archivists do every time I pass by the Archives and Special Collections on the third floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library. To find...
View ArticleIndigenous land-based learning through exercise
On Feb. 28, Brian Rice, a professor in the faculty of kinesiology and recreation management, led an Indigenous history walk from Upper Fort Garry to St. Boniface, connecting students to the history of...
View ArticleDioramas in the Icelandic Reading Room
The Icelandic Reading Room in the Dafoe Library is a popular study space for students, known for its quiet atmosphere and floor-to-ceiling windows. But have you ever noticed the unsettling art that...
View ArticleExploring U of M archives with Nicole Aminian
I have always wondered what kinds of archives the U of M has and what archivists do every time I pass by the Archives and Special Collections on the third floor of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library. To find...
View ArticleHolocaust Survivors in Canada offers cautionary tale, says author
As young Canadian scholar Adara Goldberg began her PhD dissertation for the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., she sought a moment of clarity...
View ArticleIsaac Newton’s genius still meaningful today
Isaac Newton’s fundamental work on motion and gravity may have been challenged by Einstein’s theories in the early 20th century; but the ideas and mathematical foundations laid out in Philosophiae...
View ArticleUre(k)a!
Vitalism is the doctrine that processes of living organisms are governed by unique principles due to a “vital essence” that is separate and distinct from the laws of physics and chemistry. In the 19th...
View ArticleHydro, capitalism and tragedy
A new report produced by Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (CEC) provides a scathing indictment of Manitoba Hydro’s treatment of Indigenous peoples, northern people, their way of life and their...
View ArticleThere’s More Than One Way to celebrate arts, culture and history
The Collections Gallery at the University of Manitoba’s school of art gallery is currently housing a special exhibition that highlights the city of Winnipeg’s arts history in a unique way. The...
View ArticleDalnavert Museum’s Halloween tour explores Victorians’ obsession with death
From Oct. 27 to 30, the Dalnavert Museum will be hosting its second annual Dalnavert After Dark candlelit tours. The theme of this year’s edition is “Obsessed: Victorians and The Macabre” and the tours...
View ArticleThe October Crisis forty years after
Last year, a great injustice was done in Canada. At the muzzle of threats to violence issued by some Quebec sovereigntists, several events to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battle of the Plains of...
View ArticleFind municipal politics a little boring?
Another municipal election is here. Yet, besides an occasional lawn sign or article tucked somewhere in the newspaper, it would not be difficult to forget that an election was even happening. Apathy,...
View ArticleA wearable history
History is written in many forms – through buildings and books, our everyday lives, and the clothes we wear. In the latest exhibit from the Costume Museum of Canada (CMC)—From Bloomers to Bikinis:...
View ArticleParsing the Canadian history wars
Among the list of grievances critics of Prime Minister Stephen Harper inevitably trot out as further evidence of his profound, Machiavellian evil is the way in which Canadian history has been...
View ArticleTime’s arrow: William Herschel
William Herschel did not begin his career as a professional scientist. For the first several decades of his life astronomy was just a hobby. His career was in music. Born to an oboist in a German...
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