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Eat Your Primary Sources! Or, Teaching the Taste of History
Cross-posted with ActiveHistory.ca History has a distinct taste. Actually, it also has a distinct smell, feel, sound, and look to it but – as a historian of food and nutrition – I always find myself...
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I’m excited to see that my newest article, “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942–1952,” has...
View Article2013-2014 Talks
The last few months have been a whirlwind, it seems, and I plan to write a long post about my experiences once I have a chance to catch my breath. In the meantime, I’ve been invited to give a number of...
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Of History and Headlines: Reflections of an Accidental Public Historian
Cross-posted with ActiveHistory.ca When I first heard Alvin Dixon’s voice I was driving along Dupont Avenue in Toronto with my partner, Laural, and our three-month-old son, Oscar. Dixon was talking to...
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Infectious Disease, Contagion and the History of Vaccines
Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas (LOC) Over at ActiveHistory.ca, Jim Clifford, Erika Dyck and I have co-edited a series of...
View ArticleResidential Schools and the Politics of History
Over at ActiveHistory.ca, Crystal Fraser and I have just published a joint essay about Canada’s Indian residential schools and the politics of history. It was written as a response to an earlier Ken...
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This past year has been a busy one but, between doing scholarly research and writing, I’ve also tried hard spend some of my time doing what might be considered public history. If you’re interested,...
View ArticleThe Next Chapter and the Agenda
Over the past year I’ve been lucky enough to talk to two of the best, most thoughtful interviewers in the country – Shelagh Rogers and Steve Paikin – about my book, Food Will Win the War. The...
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We Are What We Ate
I recently had the pleasure of writing an article for the Globe and Mail on the stories that food tells us about Canada on it’s 150th birthday. It was fun to write and I was able to publicly express my...
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