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History professor Ian Milligan appeared on TVO鈥檚 The Agenda with Steve Paikin to discuss 鈥.鈥 Alongside his fellow panelists, Milligan argued for what makes history special 鈥 our deep understanding of context and nuance 鈥 and suggested that the future is looking bright for history grads.

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Playing with the Past

By Troy Osborne, Dean of Conrad Grebel University College, Associate Professor of History

Should sixteenth-century Augsburg city councillors tolerate religious dissent? What is the best way to secure the social contract in revolutionary France? Will a newly independent India be a Hindu, Muslim, or multi-faith nation? Students grapple with these questions as they take part in one of the 鈥淩eacting to the Past鈥 role-playing games

Lucy Maud Montgomery Exhibit, by Jenna Philbrick

Jenna Philbrick has created an exhibit on Lucy Maud Montgomery which outlines some of her life's accomplishments, as well as personal life struggles with mental health. One of the most well known publications by Montgomery is the book Anne of Green Gables.

An especially fascinating piece of Jenna's exhibit is a personal journal by Montgomery, complete with photographs and newpaper clippings. The journal is on loan from the University of Guelph.

The University of 蓝莓视频 and York University have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past.

Prof. Steven Bednarski has won the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education鈥檚 prestigious D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. This is the second year in a row that the Society has bestowed this prize upon a faculty member from the University of 蓝莓视频.

Steven Bednarski is a social historian of late medieval crime, gender, and natural environment at St. Jerome鈥檚 University, a public Roman Catholic university federated within the University of 蓝莓视频, where he also Co-Directs the Medieval Studies Program.