THE HIPPIE HISTORIAN

The above image is a screenshot of a photo I recently pinned on the website HistoryPin. For those of you who don’t know, HistoryPin allow...

Today I had a conversation with a fellow public historian, Steph Johns, about poppy etiquette. She shared a story with me from last year...

For me, the readings by Errol Morris this week which discussed photo manipulation, its power and the lengthy process of detecting it made...

Okay so to get my hands dirty in GIS (for those of you who don’t know, GIS stands for Geographical Information System) methods, this week...

Now that I’ve entered the Public History program, I’ve really been noticing how many of the buildings that we enter on a day to day basis...

Let me set the scene. It’s a beautiful fall Friday afternoon at Cranberry Creek Gardens and I am driving my friend Lucy along with her s...

Yesterday, my class visited the Canadian Oil Museum in the village of Oil Springs to learn about the beginning of the modern oil industry...

After three summers of working at a museum who is constantly visited by the same crowd of loyal followers, the question of how to attract...

In in Monday’s Digital History course we explored the various ways that text analysis and topic modelling are being used to understand an...

Just recently, I was directed to the website Serendip-o-matic which uses words, key phrases or big sections of your own text to pull prim...

At a recent talk by Claire Campbell, I was taken by her idea that too many heritage sites depict only a moment in time rather than a full...

For this Friday’s romp to a historical site I thought I’d expose my readers to the train stations of Tillsonburg. I do plan on taking th...

Whenever I say I’m from Tillsonburg, one of the first things people respond with is “Tillsonburg? My back still aches when I hear that wo...

Neil Young performing at the Riverboat Coffeehouse, 1965. Photo credit: Manfred Buchheit This week for my digital history course I was as...

Check out this cool medal my sister has from my great-grandpa! He was a first place shooting champion in 1932 with the National Rifle As...

Every Friday I will be traveling to a different historic site or interesting place for historians (and the general public) to visit. Fir...

If you’re looking for a book that really makes you question your previous notions, look no further than Christopher Browning’s Ordinary M...

In his autobiography, Neil Young tells the intimate details of his life as a kid in Omemee, Ontario to a full-blown rock legend and let m...

After two hours of grappling with this very question in my Digital History course, and thinking about it since, I have finally begun to f...

So I am a little late writing about this Friday’s visit to a site of historical interest but here it is! This past Friday my Public Hist...