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The Evan Bray Show
The Evan Bray Show - Scott Woroniuk - May 23rd, 2025

The Evan Bray Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 7:17


A Saskatchewan videographer has been nominated for a prestigious award, the Governor General's History Award for Popular Media. The nominated series is called Abandoned Saskatchewan, and examines films that are more unknown history of the province. Scott Woroniuk, videographer and owner of Crosscut Films, joins Evan to chat about the series and what the nomination means to him.

Alabama History Podcasts
Episode 83 -- Theo Moore on AHA's 2025 Jakeman Digital History Award

Alabama History Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 17:21


Theo Moore, founder and executive director of Hiztorical Vision Productions, discusses receiving the 2025 Jakeman Award for Digital History (large project category) from the Alabama Historical Association. He talks about his past, current, and future films; his motivations for founding Hiztorical Vision Productions; and his plans for the future – including creating a studio, museum, and event space. Transcript at this link: https://tinyurl.com/vpfz6ece Links to things mentioned in the episode: Alabama Historical Association: https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Hiztorical Vision Productions: https://hiztoricalvp.org/ Crown: the County of Lowndes (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD6cQejngU4&t=1s Hobson City: From Peril to Promise (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUHSHlieT0&t=4s Afrikan by way of American (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfhA2DzuJg&t=9s Remembering John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcjOu0y84Jg Georgia Documentary Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/GeorgiaDocumentaryFilmFestival Lanett Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/LanettCityFilmFestival Southern Film Festival: https://filmfreeway.com/SouthernFilmFestival Heritage House (Africatown museum): https://clotilda.com/ Tuskegee Institute Advancement League (TIAL): https://snccdigital.org/location/tuskegee-al/ Dr. Gwendolyn Patton: https://snccdigital.org/people/gwen-patton/ Sammy Younge, Jr.: https://snccdigital.org/events/murder-of-sammy-younge-snccs-statement-on-vietnam/ Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. If you enjoyed this edition of the Alabama History Podcast, don't forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Information Morning Saint John from CBC Radio New Brunswick (Highlights)
Local teacher helps students tell NB's untold stories

Information Morning Saint John from CBC Radio New Brunswick (Highlights)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2024 9:34


Connie Shea is a history and social studies teacher at St. Malachy's Memorial High School, who was recently awarded a Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

CBC Newfoundland Morning
The Governor General recognized the great work of a Gambo history teacher last week

CBC Newfoundland Morning

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 7:59


Jo Anne Broders, a teacher at Smallwood Academy in Gambo, has been named a recipient of a Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. She joined us on the line this morning to talk about the honour.

Canada's History
Interview with Debbie Mar

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 31:41


Debbie Mar's grade three/four class paid tribute to local WWII veterans by educating their school and community about the special friendship between Canada and the Netherlands. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jessica McIntyre

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 27:34


Jessica McIntyre created Project True North in order to engage students in primary document research, to challenge accepted versions of Canadian history, and to share these stories with the country. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Ben Gross and Dan Kunanec

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 32:36


Anchoring learning in food history, Ben Gross and Dan Kunanec's students studied Ashkenazi and Sephardic life in Europe and how that history travelled to Canada with survivors of the Holocaust. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Sarah Stewart

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 10:38


Sarah Stewart asked her students to explore topics such as the ‘60s Scoop, the Métis struggle for recognition, the 1969 "White Paper,” and the High Arctic Relocation for an awareness campaign project. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Michele Schwab

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 12:09


Michele Schwab led a project that included preservation of traditional knowledge, community engagement, empowerment of elders, and intergenerational connections by bringing in kehte-aya (old ones or knowledge carriers) to capture their viewpoints and teachings on a variety of subjects. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with LouAnn Davis

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 10:36


LouAnn Davis and fellow primary teachers used songs as a springboard for thinking about and discussing residential schools and students' Mi'kmaq culture and language. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jason Vander Meulen

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 9:30


In Jason Vander Meulen's grade 10 history project, students developed an Investor Pitch for an early 20th century invention to communicate historical findings. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Heather Howell

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 17:43


Through this project, students learn about the importance of the horticultural history in Burlington while doing hands-on gardening work on the grounds of the Ireland House Museum. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Christopher Martinello

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 18:07


Christopher Martinello's students re-created Indigenous technologies like atlatl spear throwers through the Wendat Village Educational Archaeology Outreach Program. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Alma Bernier

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 25:57


The goal of Alma Bernier's project was for her Indigenous students to identify who they are, where they came from, and how their history continues to affect their lives. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Connie Shea

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 10:40


“The Hidden Histories Project” was a student-led public history and art initiative showcasing significant historical figures and events from marginalized and diverse communities in New Brunswick and Wabanaki Territory. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with David Lynch

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 33:16


“Through their Eyes” engages students with the historical thinking concepts as they explore twentieth-century Canadian history through the real-life experiences of 225+ (extra)ordinary Canadians. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jo Anne Broders

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 20:23


Led by grade 8 students in Jo Anne Broders's class, this emotionally powerful project remembers the Mi'kmaq people and their valued contributions to local history in Gambo, Newfoundland and Labrador. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Laurie Thompson

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 21:58


This project brings together students and elders, exploring both traditional cultural experiences and the history of the Kikino Métis Settlement. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Suzanne Uher

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 23:01


The Canadian Roundtable Debate project brings to light the major issues in Canada "today" while putting Suzanne Uher's students into the shoes of Canadian politicians. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Alysa Ferguson

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2024 24:07


This inclusive initiative of Alysa Ferguson unites Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, Knowledge Keepers, Elders, community members, organizations, and School District of Mystery Lake representatives. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2024 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Scarlet Stiletto Bites
Death in the Skies by Jessica Southern-Reid

Scarlet Stiletto Bites

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 39:00


Author of Death in the Skies, 2020 winner of Scarlet Stiletto Award & Mystery with History Award..Jessica has always been able to put a string of words together. Throughout school, she won quite a few small writing competitions and she always knew that regardless of what else she did, she wanted writing to be a part of her future in some way, shape or form.She moved to the UK in search of adventure and travelled the world for several years before Covid clipped her wings. But being back in Australia gave Jessica the chance to have her first flying lesson, which led to “Death in the Skies”, the Scarlet Stiletto winning entry.Had anybody told Jessica that she would write a crimes story, let alone win a crime-writing competition, she would have laughed in their faces. But being stuck at home in a world of lockdown will do strange things to a person. The Scarlet Stiletto win has given her the confidence to pursue a career in writing. Since the win, she has expanded this short story into a full length novel and is in the final editing stages.CreditsConcept designer, co-producer, and narrator: Susanna LobezCo-producer: Carmel ShuteProductionManager: Tim CoyGraphic Designer: Caz BrownCopyright Sisters in Crime Australia

Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)
Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land

Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 29:23


Nicole O'Byrne talks to Bill Waiser and Jennie Hansen about their book, Cheated: The Laurier Liberals and the Theft of First Nations Reserve Land published by ECW Press in October 2023. Cheated is a gripping story of single-minded politicians, uncompromising Indian Affairs officials, grasping government appointees, and well-connected Liberal speculators, set against a backdrop of politics, power, patronage, and profit. The Laurier government's settlement of western Canada can never be looked at the same way again. Bill Waiser is the author of more than a dozen books, including A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan before 1905, winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. He is also the recipient of the Governor General's History Award for Popular Media (the Pierre Berton Award). Bill lives in Saskatoon, SK. Jennie Hansen has been involved in numerous projects that investigate how nature was understood, appropriated, and administered under British imperialism. She lives in Saskatoon, SK. Image Credit: ECW Press If you like our work, please consider supporting it: bit.ly/support_WTY. Your support contributes to the Champlain Society's mission of opening new windows to directly explore and experience Canada's past.

Spacing Radio
Episode 75: What Does Change Cost?

Spacing Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 38:21


With the Toronto budget about to be voted on shortly, we talk to crisis worker and homelessness advocate Diana Chan McNally about what the City needs to invest to help refugees and other unhoused people, whey the federal government needs to step up, and why the police don't need another big budget increase. And, as part of the Spacing 20th Anniversary celebration, we talk to historian and author Adam Bunch, who recently won the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media, and who wrote our blog's most-read story, which he treats us to.

Lit Mag Love For Creative Writers Who Want to Publish
#82 Talking to Spirits and Handling Success with Aviaq Johnston (Ghosts #3)

Lit Mag Love For Creative Writers Who Want to Publish

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 46:23


Welcome to the third in my series of special episodes of Write, Publish, and Shine as I take you on a deep dive into the creation of Room magazine issue 46.3, where I was lead editor of the issue.One of my jobs as editor is to commission one established writer to be featured in the magazine. To do so, I started by searching for writers working in the genre of ghosts and scary stories and was pleased to come across an anthology of Arctic horror stories, *[Taaqtumi](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44222604-taaqtumi)* and thought, oh, yes, when I read Aviaq Johnston's piece in the anthology. I invited her to be our commissioned writer for Room 46.3 and she said yes.Aviaq Johnston is a young Inuk author from Igloolik, Nunavut. Her debut novel *Those Who Run in the Sky* was released in the spring of 2017 and shortlisted for a Governor General's award that year. In 2014, she won first place in the Aboriginal Arts and Stories competition for her short story “Tarnikuluk,” which also earned her a Governor General's History Award.You can pick up your copy of Room 46.3, Ghosts (digital or print) at roommagazine.com.All of the notes for this episode are up at rachelthompson.co/podcast/82—WRITERLY LOVE LETTERS: Sent each week to your inbox. rachelthompson.co/letters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alabama History Podcasts
Episode 066 Trehub Denault Bellanger On ADPNet 2023 Digital History Award

Alabama History Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 26:03


Episode 66 -- Spokespeople Aaron Trehub, Chelsea Denault, and Clint Bellanger discuss ADPNet's 2023 Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award (Small Project Category) Air date: September 6, 2023 Aaron Trehub (Auburn University), Chelsea Denault (Michigan Digital Preservation Network), and Clint Bellanger (ADPNet Technical Policy Committee) discuss the Alabama Digital Preservation Network, ADPNet, winner of the Alabama Historical Association's 2023 Digital History Award for small projects. ADPNet calls itself "a distributed digital preservation network for locally created digital content" built on LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") software with an iteration (node) at each member institution. ADPNet began in 2006 with an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL). Links mentioned in the show: The Alabama Digital Preservation Network (ADPNet) https://adpn.org/ Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award https://www.alabamahistory.net/digital-history-award Alabama Historical Association https://www.alabamahistory.net/ Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) https://www.naal.edu/ Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS) https://www.imls.gov/ Rather read? Here's a link to the transcript: https://tinyurl.com/4wpr7nkk *Just a heads up – the provided transcript is likely to be less than 100% accurate. The Alabama History Podcast's producer is Marty Olliff and its associate producer is Laura Murray. Founded in 1947, the Alabama Historical Association is the oldest statewide historical society in Alabama. The AHA provides opportunities for meaningful engagement with the past through publications, meetings, historical markers, and other programs. See the website https://www.alabamahistory.net/

Canada's History
Interview with Shannon Rankin

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 23:02


Shannon Rankin's First World War artifact project requires students to create and compose critical reflections on and interpretations of Canada's First World War story. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Erin Doupe

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 21:24


The Story of a Soldier project is an investigation into the life of a local resident and an exploration of local history during the First World War. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Maliesha Muralidharan

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 19:38


Maliesha Muralidharan designed a unit plan for her grade 8 history class that shifted the focus on how students learn to allow them to showcase their knowledge through art, drama, pictures, quotes, social media, debates and rants. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jo Anne Broders

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 12:57


Jo Anne Broders organized and facilitated an international collaboration between her grades 9 and 11 students and a classroom in Germany. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Andre Boutin-Maloney

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 23:14


"Finding Common Ground: A Treaty Walk (& Roll) of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan" is a collaborative project that combines research, storytelling, and geographic mapping into a curated self-guided tour. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Chantal Clabrough

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 26:31


Chantal Clabrough designed the Westmount High School Memorial Project as a way to engage students in preserving their school's history. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Brad Dowler

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 15:06


High school teacher Brad Dowler designed a project that deals with past and current movements towards the creation, alteration, removal or replacement of historical monuments and namings. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with L. Andrea Izzo

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 20:32


Using primary and secondary sources, L. Andrea Izzo's grade 8 students learned about the history of the No. 2 Construction Battalion, Canada's first segregated unit and largest all-Black unit. This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Ramandeep Sarai

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 12:38


Elementary teacher Ramandeep Sarai guided a group inquiry project with students in grades 4-8 in her special education class to explore the question, What does it mean to be Canadian? This episode of the Teaching Canada's History podcast is part of our series speaking with the finalists of the 2023 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of Canadian history. To learn more, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Life as a..
EP87_Excellence in Education: Inside the World of an Award-Winning Teacher

Life as a..

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2023 83:08


LIFE AS AN Awarded Teacher Join Christopher Schoenwald for an inspiring conversation with Katy Whitfield, a passionately driven award-winning teacher. Her accolades include receiving the Canada wide prestigious Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Toronto Excellence in Teaching Award. Discover what it truly takes to become an outstanding educator from both a practical and philosophical standpoint. Hear about her extensive curriculum leadership experience emphasizing the arts, equity, and community partnerships, as well as Canadian and World Studies. Learn more about a teaching philosophy which thrives on interdisciplinary and inquiry-based approaches, empowering students' voices in the curriculum. All up this talk offers invaluable insights and inspiration for those currently within the profession of teaching and those who are considering it as a career possibility. To learn more about Katy, be sure to check her out here: Twitter Instagram FRIENDLY REMINDERS: And hey! Why don't you check out some video highlights of the talk over on YouTube? By liking, commenting or subscribing you'd be helping a ton as far as supporting this program.  Subscribe on YouTube here I'd highly appreciate it!  -Christopher   Follow LIFE AS A.. on your favourite social platforms via these links: Youtube Instagram:  Linkedin: Twitter: Facebook: 

Half Baked History
Bonus Episode: Half Baked History Award Show

Half Baked History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 40:03


In this BONUS episode of Half Baked History, Kelsey and Nick dish out awards for the first 50 episodes of the show. Discover who would be invited to the some circle, who would be kicked out, and what some of their favorite episodes are! Roll up, light up, get ready for the red carpet, it's time for another episode of this weed fueled podcast.Contact Half Baked History Follow and engage with us on Instagram and Twitter Email us at halfbakedhistorypod@gmail.com - Business inquires only Thanks for listening and supporting the show!

Crossroads of Rockland History
New Exhibit at Edward Hopper House with Kathie Bennewitz - Crossroads of Rockland History

Crossroads of Rockland History

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2022 47:48


A 30-minute version of this interview aired on Monday, November 21, 2022 at 9:30AM on WRCR Radio 1700AM. 2022 marks the 140th birthday of Edward Hopper. On this episode, we learned about about the events celebrating this extraordinary artist, who was born in Nyack, NY.Kathie Bennewitz, executive director of the Edward Hopper House, joined host Clare Sheridan to discuss the new exhibition at Hopper House, Edward Hopper‘s Boyhood on the Hudson River and Emerging Artistic Vision, on view now through March 26, 2023; a new documentary about Hopper, "Hopper, An American Love Story" that was screened on November 16, 2022, at Rivertown Film; and the Whitney Museum's new exhibition Edward Hopper's New York.***About our guest: Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, executive director of the Edward Hopper House, has extensive experience with Connecticut museums and nonprofits and has won several awards, including the Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit in 2019 and 2020 and the Leadership in History Award, the most prestigious national award given by the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), in 2017. She holds degrees in art history from Princeton University and the University of Delaware. After curatorial positions at the Amon Carter Museum and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, and in education at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, she served as director of exhibitions and programs at the Greenwich Historical Society (the historic site of the Cos Cob art colony) and Fairfield Museum and History Center. She has curated exhibits on American art and artists over her career and in Connecticut at the Lockwood-Matthews Mansion Museum, Norwalk Historical Society, Westport Historical Society, Westport Library, and Westport Public Art Collections. She and her husband, Scott, have twin adult daughters.About the Hopper House exhibition: Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett, this new exhibition, on view through March 26, 2023, showcases childhood drawings by the artist on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art and works from private collections, including the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, alongside Hopper's school notebooks and artmaking materials and artworks by family members from the Museum's Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper's early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family's support of his developing talent and ambitions. About the documentary screening: Phil Grabsky's new documentary, Hopper: An American Love Story, was released in October 2022 to coincide with the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition Edward Hopper's New York and the Edward Hopper House Museum's Edward Hopper's Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision. The acclaimed film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush, taking a deep look into Hopper's art, his life, and his relationships, and prominently features Nyack in its opening chapter. 

The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection
The Genealogy Guys Podcast #409

The Genealogy Guys Podcast & Genealogy Connection

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2022 59:44


We apologize for the delay in the publication of this episode. Hurricane Ian and some severe computer problems have presented production challenges. News You Can Use and Share American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society celebrated the lifetime contributions of David Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer of FamilySearch, with its Preservation and History Award on 27 October 2022. MyHeritage has announced three major improvements to their service: Sorting abilities for Shared DNA Matches; The addition of 30 new historical record selections and 31 million new records added in September; and New and improved Family Statistics for your uploaded family tree/GEDCOM. Nathan Dylan Goodwin's newest book, the second book in the Venator Cold Case Series, The Sawtooth Slayer, has just been released in paperback and Kindle formats. RootsTech 2023 registration is open for the largest genealogy conference, to be held 2-4 March 2023 in Salt Lake City, Utah. You may register to attend in person or virtually at https://www.rootstech.org. George shares information about the BYU Family History Technology Lab at https://familytech.byu.edu. Genealogy-related games and research and visualization tools are fun and fascinating. Drew highlights new and updated collections added at FamilySearch in September. Listener Email Daniel writes to describe a DNA brick wall challenge. Tom B. discussed WWII-era photos and the fact that he has scanned them. Now, what should he do with the originals? Tom S. wrote to share a brick wall breakthrough that he, his cousin, and his mother made by checking various online services and then going back and checking them for new record additions. George discussed his work on scanning photos he has carried with him for as long as 60 years. He discussed the Fujitsu SV600 Scanner, the ScanSnap software that comes with the scanner, his storage in Dropbox, his naming conventions, and using Vivid-Pix Restore to improve the images. He discusses his conundrum about how to obtain images from photo negatives, Kodak photo disks, and other non-paper media. He shares surprises he found that help him identify persons in many unlabeled photos. Finally, he shares Tom B.'s concerns about what to do with originals. Please Support Our Sponsors You can support our sponsors who bring these podcasts to you for free by visiting their links as follows: MyHeritage at https://www.myheritage.com/ RootsMagic at https://rootsmagic.com/ Vivid-Pix RESTORE at https://www.vivid-pix.com/restore/ Thank you to all our Patreon supporting members for their support. Your Patreon support helps us improve our technology and provide even more podcast content to you! You can join us for as little as $1 a month or as much as you'd like to contribute. Visit https://www.patreon.com/genealogyguys to get started. Please also tell your friends and your society about our free podcasts, our free blog, and our Genealogy Guys Learn subscription education website. Please let us hear from you at genealogyguys@gmail.com.

Indigenous Voices from Fort Nisqually
Telling the Whole Story: A Conversation with Program Participants, Pt 1

Indigenous Voices from Fort Nisqually

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 26:20


In September 2022, the Puget Sound Treaty War Panel series was recognized, along with 52 other recipients nationwide, by the https://aaslh.org/ (American Association for State and Local History) for a Leadership in History Award. The award recognizes achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history. Earlier this summer, panel participants gathered at the https://alhfam.org/ (Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums) Conference, both in-person and virtually, to discuss the development of the panel series with museum audiences. The panelists shared their thoughts on the program's development and evolution, its successes and challenges, and what it means to come together as a diverse group of historians to share this history. To celebrate the program's recognition this month, we wanted to share this conversation, in two parts. This is part one. Panelists include: Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director of the Squaxin Tribe Museum Library Research Center Elizabeth Rudrud, Events and Volunteer Coordinator, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum Jennifer Ott, Assistant Director, HistoryLink Warren KingGeorge, Historian, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe

Indigenous Voices from Fort Nisqually
Telling the Whole Story: A Conversation with Program Participants, Pt 2

Indigenous Voices from Fort Nisqually

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2022 23:00


In September 2022, the Puget Sound Treaty War Panel series was recognized, along with 52 other recipients nationwide, by the Ahttps://aaslh.org/ (merican Association for State and Local History) for a Leadership in History Award. The award recognizes achievement in the preservation and interpretation of state and local history. Earlier this summer, panel participants gathered at the https://alhfam.org/ (Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums )Conference, both in-person and virtually, to discuss the development of the panel series with museum audiences. The panelists shared their thoughts on the program's development and evolution, its successes and challenges, and what it means to come together as a diverse group of historians to share this history. To celebrate the program's recognition this month, we wanted to share this conversation, in two parts. This is part one. Panelists include: Brandon Reynon, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Puyallup Tribe Charlene Krise, Executive Director of the Squaxin Tribe Museum Library Research Center Elizabeth Rudrud, Events and Volunteer Coordinator, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum Jennifer Ott, Assistant Director, HistoryLink Warren KingGeorge, Historian, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe

SBS Filipino - SBS Filipino
Filipina writer receives recognition at the NSW Premier's History Award - Pinay na manunulat kinilala NSW Premier's History Award

SBS Filipino - SBS Filipino

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2022 11:12


Dr Mina Roces and her work, "The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change" was recognised at the recent NSW Premier's History Award for the General History category. - Kinilala si Dr Mina Roces at ang kanyang akda na may pamagat na “The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change sa kakatapos lang na NSW Premier's History Award para sa kategoryang General History

Canada's History
Interview with Tanya Andersen

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 12:09


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. In answering the question, "To what extent have diverse voices shaped Canadian identity and culture?", students in Tanya Andersen's high school history class can give a direct answer, do a deep dive into a topic of interest from the unit, or complete an "Andersen Assignment," which is an assignment that has more structure. For the unit question and the deep dive, students have a choice of medium through which to communicate their thinking. The “Andersen Assignment” requires students to follow the Design Thinking Process to examine the Grade 10 history textbook for gaps in coverage of a Canadian identity. This project allows students to critically examine the textbook and become advocates for change. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Tracey Salamondra and Carla Cooke

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 32:49


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Tracey Salamondra and Carla Cooke designed a cross-curricular project where students partnered with community members and organizations to create historical narratives for an interpretive trail expansion in a neighbouring community. The project capitalized on the assets of rural communities, strong relationships, and the ability to overcome obstacles that emerged while completing an inquiry project during the pandemic. The students interviewed current and former residents and worked with museum artifacts, digital archives, and local historians as secondary sources. After studying storytelling, narrative writing, and the writing process, students each wrote, edited, and fact-checked three narratives of their choosing. The project allowed students to see history as a living discipline and learn about their communities' stories, changing how they viewed their rural communities. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Cynthia Bettio

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 22:50


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. High school teacher Cynthia Bettio designed a semester-long project for her Grade 10 Canadian history course that is modeled after the Snapshots in Time cards, developed by Dr. Lindsay Gibson, Dr. Catharine Duquette and the Critical Thinking Consortium. The project culminated in students designing their own digital Canadian history timeline game with an emphasis on the narratives of marginalized groups over time. Students, with the support of STEM Minds Inc. and using Unity (a gaming language), developed an interactive Canadian history timeline game which will engage users in navigating key events in the history of 2SLGBTQ, women, immigrants, Indigenous groups, disabled people, and people of colour in Canada since 1914. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Melissa Moorhouse

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 15:08


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Melissa Moorhouse's project, "Ethical Dilemmas — Then and Now," is an inquiry-based student experience within her class's examination of key aspects of the Second World War. The project encourages meaningful personal development through reflection on transformational ethical questions. Through research, self-reflection, and conversation, students connect an ethical dilemma of the past to a contemporary Canadian issue. Embracing Universal Design for Learning, students can choose a medium of communication that best suits their learning styles and strengths. It combines the inquiry process, critical evaluation, and higher order thinking all with creative transformative outcomes. Rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusivity, it allows students to connect to their own identities and passions. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Luisa Fracassi

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 13:09


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Luisa Fracassi developed her project “Immigrant Voices” as an experiential learning opportunity for her high school students. First, students attended two virtual tours and a workshop run by the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax. The tours explored the immigrant experience by using memoirs, interviews, and other primary sources, while the workshops shared the history of and process behind conducting oral history interviews. Using what they learned from Pier 21, students conducted an oral history interview with an immigrant, transcribed the interview, and created a historical narrative in a magazine-style layout about their interviewee's experiences. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Robert Jardine

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 8:30


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Robert Jardine's research-focused book project engages students in the process of writing history. Students co-create research questions and use those questions as frames to consider various periods in Canadian history. Over the course of the semester, students organize, research, locate images, and write chapters for a student-created history textbook that reflects their interpretation of significant events and peoples in Canada's past. The intended outcome is that the students use a variety of competencies to create their textbook and that they begin to understand the power of past events in shaping their worldviews and the world they live in, as well as roles that individuals, organizations, and institutions wield in the creation of history. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Barbara Ann Giroux

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 20:03


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Barbara Ann Giroux's first grade class embarked on a vibrant learning journey toward reconciliation. It included participation in the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society's Reconciliation Ambearrister program, as well as an in-class project on the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Upon class request, it evolved to include all interested students in the school, with the purpose of developing an understanding of equity issues facing many Indigenous communities and TRC Calls to Action within the school. The class shared weekly posts about human rights injustices faced by Indigenous peoples in Canada and invited students to offer their opinions to the weekly question, “Do you think all children in Canada have the same human rights?” The Grade 1 students became knowledgeable leaders in the school, while their teacher became a more reflective practitioner. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jennifer Maxwell

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 6:31


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. After participating in an Indigenous-focused interdisciplinary class, students in Jennifer Maxwell's class created real-world projects that could contribute to reconciliation. Throughout the course, students explored Indigenous contexts and histories, with topics about the legacy of colonial oppression including land claims (and the LANDBACK movement); Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit persons; the Sixties and Millennial Scoops; residential schools and day schools; the Indian Act; the Band Council system; and the reserve system. Students then researched and explored the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, specifically around the Calls to Action. Finally, for students to participate in their own act of reconciliation, they chose a topic, an audience, and a product to design to help their targeted audience engage in reconciliation. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Andreya Padmore

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 10:47


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. In Andreya Padmore's class, students learned about current and historical events that Canada should be proud of, as well as those that took Canada time to recognize and accept responsibility for. Students went into this project with questions and interest about what happened in Canada and left with more questions, knowledge, and steps to take action toward creating a better future for Canada. For their final project, students were tasked with selecting a racialized Canadian trailblazer or a racialized Canadian inventor to research. Their work was published in a book that was professionally bound and placed in the library so others can learn about the amazing people that have come from Canada. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jonathan Giles

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 11:03


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2022 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Students seek to understand the complex legacies arising from the points of view of the Fathers of Confederation by creating a scripted dialogue between two figures of that time. Starting with a discussion on the removal of the statues of John A. Macdonald, students dig into the dominance of the Orange Order in 19th century Canadian politics and interrogate the commonalities in the treatment of Irish migrants and Métis peoples. This assists students to explain what spurred both Irish Fenians and the Métis to strike violently against the dominant political order of the Confederation era. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

The News on CJOB
Governor General's History Award

The News on CJOB

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 8:42


Kelly Hiebert and Jacqueline Cleave, Governor General's History Award recipients for Excellence in Teaching See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Photo Detective
Shot Heard Round the World at the Concord Museum

The Photo Detective

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 27:22


This week, I take a look back on my most popular podcast episode from the past year. I'm joined by David Wood, the curator of the Concord Museum in Concord Massachusetts since 1985. David and I talk about the exhibits from the museum, and how some leave lasting impressions, not only on the community but in the history that it's taken part in telling. We also discuss what it means to see history, not only as an adult, but also as a child, and how understanding how we look at history can help foster a deeper love in the exhibits we see and also show to our audiences.It's a fascinating look at curation, history exploration, and understanding how moments in history can continue to affect us, even after they've long since happened. It doesn't take hindsight to realize you're living in historic times. This last year has taught us that.  This week's guest, David Wood, told me that residents of Lexington and Concord immediately recognized the significance of April 19, 1775, and saved pieces to document that day. A few years ago, the Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts assembled a temporary exhibit called The Shot Heard Round the World.  It was an amazing display of ordinary and extraordinary bits of history.  Now they've created a permanent exhibit of the same name. It's one of my favorite museums but don't worry if you can't travel to see it. Their website is worth exploring.  Concord Museum was the first cultural institution to be officially recognized by the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for this “Shot Heard Round the World” microsite. We've plenty of time before the 250th celebration in 2026.   Related Episodes:Episode 49: Women Patriots with Mary TedescoEpisode 79: The American Revolution and Abraham LincolnLinks:Concord MuseumA Revolutionary TrioSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:David F. Wood has been a Curator at the Concord Museum since 1985. He has published The Concord Museum: Decorative Arts from a New England Collection and An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum, which won the American Association of State and Local History Leadership in History Award and the Historic New England Honor Book award for 2007. He has also published a variety of other articles regarding cabinetmaking and clock-making in Concord, MassachusettsAbout Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts

Canada's History
Interview with Randall Keast

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 46:13


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. In Randall Keast's project, The Human Rights Symposium, students must conduct in-depth research into a marginalized group in Canada and the challenges they faced in their pursuit for equality. Once they have conducted their research, students must present their findings in seminar-style groups. This allows for students to not only engage in a conversation about the historical influences that led to marginalization of these groups, but also provides students an opportunity to directly engage with the history and teach their peers what they've learned themselves. At the end of the symposium, students are asked to reflect on the process and explore the notion of a just society. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Jackie Cleave

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 11:55


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jackie Cleave is a teacher at Laura Secord School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she developed a project about making the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action accessible for younger students. As Jackie notes, the 94 Calls to Action are a set of directions towards reconciliation but they were not intended as a teaching tool. To make the Calls to Action more accessible, a team of educators worked with seventy-five grades 4, 5, and 6 students to reword the calls in child-friendly language. Her students researched history, explored current reality, toured the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and listened to Indigenous leaders. The students used art, poetry, dictionaries, and thesauruses to identify the problem and rephrase each Call in their own words. The result is a book containing the art, poetry, original Calls, and the students' wording of the problem and the solution the CRTC TRC proposes. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Katie Tressel

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 13:46


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. What do we do with statues of people whose views and actions we now recognize as problematic? What role do we play in the telling of Canada's national story, and what impact can we have on its future? Katie Tressel considered these essential questions while developing her project “Heroes and Villains.” Students are asked to consider how perspectives about historical figures and events can change. They examined how what we choose to remember about our past influences our future, and they took steps towards creating the Canada they want to live in by designing their own monuments celebrating their vision for the country. Overall, students learned that history is not a single story, and that recognizing multiple perspectives creates a richer, more accurate national identity. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Kelly Barnum

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2021 19:50


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. “Missing,” a show performed by Kelly Barnum's dance students at Nanaimo District Secondary School in Nanaimo, British Columbia, explored the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls crisis. The thirty-minute show focused on the lost lives of six British Columbian women and girls and incorporated powerful images of those lost and the symbolic red dresses. Kelly developed the show with her former student, Sarah Kielly, in collaboration with the Indigenous Education Department and used music by Indigenous, primarily female, artists; monologues describing the lives and loss of the six women; as well as the NDSS Drumming Group performing "Women's Warrior Song.” The goal of “Missing” was to spread awareness to the school community. Unfortunately, due to COVID the students were unable to share their work with a larger audience but highlights from their dress rehearsal was shared with teachers. Several faculty provided positive feedback, stating the show was impactful and that they were grateful for the conversations that were prompted. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Janet Csontos

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2021 33:37


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Janet teaches at the Scarborough Centre for Alternative Studies in Toronto, Ontario where she developed her project. Janet's project had two major goals: as a direct response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 62nd Call to Action; and to contribute to the process of reconciliation as defined the TRC report, as reconciliation “requires that the paternalistic and racist foundations of the residential school system be rejected as the basis for an ongoing relationship.” It consists of a 20-page interdisciplinary Jamboard showing different maps or landscapes that students can interact with online. It begins with a Land Acknowledgement page which invites students to draw the First Nation territories of the place they occupy. This is followed by a variety of units that feature Indigenous histories and governance practices for sharing land, numbered treaties, and colonial events from Canadian history. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Michel Blades

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 25:17


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Keeping Tobacco Sacred project, started by Michel Blades at the Ranch Learning Centre in Lamont, Alberta, is a reconnection to land, culture, language, and identity for youth growing up in government care. Inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, this project is ultimately a grassroots answer to the assimilation of Indigenous people that resulted from the Residential School System and the legacy of their children. The process of learning to grow, cure, and prepare tobacco from seed to offering provides students with a daily connection to caring for oneself as well as the life of another. Additionally, in acknowledging the length of time it takes to grow medicines, it reinforces the importance of positively connecting the mind, body, and spirit to protocols, language, teachings, ceremony, and elder prayers. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Mark Perry

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 35:26


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. For over ten years, teacher Mark Perry has led students of various grades (1, 5, 11, and 12) in four different schools in the Kennebecasis Valley, New Brunswick, in a commemorative project called "The Kennebecasis Valley Remembers." The students have uncovered thousands of primary documents and have video-interviewed over sixty Second World War veterans to write five books, of which three have been published, and to produce several documentary films. These products detail historical accounts and the biographies of over 180 people from New Brunswick and the greater Wabanaki Territory. This work has been used by university students and University of New Brunswick historians as they have conducted their own research on the stories of New Brunswick. The present focus is on the development of biographies of veterans of the Wabanaki Nations: the Mi'kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Peskotomuhkatiyik. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Kelly Hiebert

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 15:24


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Student members of the Westwood Historical Society at Westwood Collegiate, along with teacher Kelly Hiebert, have made a documentary film about student voice and social justice regarding the issues of hate and anti-Semitism in Canada today. The project was inspired by a Holocaust Tour where Kelly and the students in the historical society visited Warsaw Ghetto, POLIN (Museum of Polish Jews), Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Lidice Village just outside of Prague, Czechia. The film includes student-led interviews with eight local Winnipeg Holocaust survivors and Angie Orosz-Richt, who was born in the extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Angie has dedicated her life to continuing her mother's story of bravery, courage, hope, and love to protect her daughter in unimaginable circumstances. Students have also interviewed specialists in Holocaust education, local historians that specialize in the Holocaust, and many others who helped in getting the film off the ground. Kelly hopes to hold a viewing of the film in Winnipeg in October 2021. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Interview with Shannon Leggett

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 32:03


This interview is part of a special series of the Teaching Canada's History podcast where we spoke with the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Teaching. Shannon Leggett is a teacher at Brockton School in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she has developed a new take on a history classroom staple: the research essay. Shannon requires her students to create a 2000-word analytical historical investigation on a Canadian event between 1919-2011 with plenty of feedback from Shannon regarding anything from writing tips to gaps in research. In this process, students learn how to conduct in-depth research and produce papers using a multi-faceted, scaffolded approach. Once the paper is complete, students are tasked with defending their research finding in a 15-minute presentation/Q&A session with their peers. The purpose of this project is not only skill based but also to have students become experts in one area of post-WWI Canadian history, and be taught about a wide array of unique, often unknown events in Canadian history. To learn more about the Governor General's History Awards or to nominate a teacher in your community, visit CanadasHistory.ca/Awards.

Canada's History
Home Made Visible — Ananya Ohri & Elizabeth Mudenyo

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 13:02


Canada's National History Society spoke with finalists of the 2020 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming who additionally received honourable mention distinction for their projects. The award aims to inspire small or volunteer-led community organizations in the creation of innovative programming that commemorates unique aspects of our heritage. In the interviews, project representatives give insight into how their projects engaged the public in Canadian history, the unique community partnerships they forged, and the lasting community impact. Ananya Ohri was born in India and moved to Canada when she was ten years old. She was the Executive Director at the Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF), Toronto's longest running free community film festival, for seven years. At RPFF, Ananya founded and directed the Lieutenant General Award winning project, Home Made Visible, which worked to preserve old home movies for BIPOC families across Canada and celebrate acts of personal archiving. Ananya is currently producing and writing a kids' animated adventure mystery series headed to CBC Kids, which she created with collaborator Fiona Raye Clarke. Elizabeth Mudenyo is a poet, artist and arts manager based in Toronto, Canada. She has worked all sides of the film festival circuit, and continues to immerse herself in community engaged arts programming. She managed the award-winning nationwide archival project, Home Made Visible. She is a third of The Group Project, a collective of Scarborough-raised women creating a vision for a new arts and culture space in/for Scarborough. She is collecting tools for curation and social justice organizing. Her first poetry chapbook, With Both Hands, is available through Anstruther Press.

Canada's History
The Toxic Legacies Project — John Sandlos

Canada's History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2021 21:03


Canada's National History Society spoke with finalists of the 2020 Governor General's History Award for Excellence in Community Programming who additionally received honourable mention distinction for their projects. The award aims to inspire small or volunteer-led community organizations in the creation of innovative programming that commemorates unique aspects of our heritage. In the interviews, project representatives give insight into how their projects engaged the public in Canadian history, the unique community partnerships they forged, and the lasting community impact. John Sandlos is a professor of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he studies and teaches in the area of Canadian and environmental history. Since 2007, he has conducted extensive archival and community-based research on the history of mining in northern Canada. He is the co-editor (with Arn Keeling) of Mining and Communities in the Canadian North: History, Politics, Memory (University of Calgary Press, 2015). From 2013, Sandlos was the Principal Investigator on the Toxic Legacies Project, a community-based research partnership with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation and Alternatives North (a Yellowknife-based environmental and social justice coalition) to study the historical impacts of arsenic contamination due to gold mining at Yellowknife, and how to communicate the long term toxic threat of 237,000 tonnes of arsenic buried under the ground at the abandoned Giant Mine to future generations.

New Books in Biology and Evolution
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)

New Books in Biology and Evolution

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 57:09


Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo, 'Bold', on K'gari (Fraser Island). There are intense, polarised opinions over dingo conservation and control. How should we live with dingos? Native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated? A tourist attraction or a threat? Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and now teaches creative writing. She has published essays, fiction, memoir and poems in Hecate, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, New Statesman, Seizure, Social Alternatives and Southerly, among others. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier's History Award. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 57:09


Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo, 'Bold', on K'gari (Fraser Island). There are intense, polarised opinions over dingo conservation and control. How should we live with dingos? Native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated? A tourist attraction or a threat? Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and now teaches creative writing. She has published essays, fiction, memoir and poems in Hecate, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, New Statesman, Seizure, Social Alternatives and Southerly, among others. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier's History Award. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)

New Books in Australian and New Zealand Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 57:09


Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo, 'Bold', on K'gari (Fraser Island). There are intense, polarised opinions over dingo conservation and control. How should we live with dingos? Native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated? A tourist attraction or a threat? Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and now teaches creative writing. She has published essays, fiction, memoir and poems in Hecate, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, New Statesman, Seizure, Social Alternatives and Southerly, among others. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier's History Award. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/australian-and-new-zealand-studies

New Books Network
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 57:09


Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo, 'Bold', on K'gari (Fraser Island). There are intense, polarised opinions over dingo conservation and control. How should we live with dingos? Native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated? A tourist attraction or a threat? Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and now teaches creative writing. She has published essays, fiction, memoir and poems in Hecate, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, New Statesman, Seizure, Social Alternatives and Southerly, among others. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier's History Award. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Animal Studies
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)

New Books in Animal Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 57:09


Australia and dingos - we have a past and future, and not without controversy.  Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes (Sydney UP, 2021) examines this relationship, with Rowena Lennox's encounter with a dingo, 'Bold', on K'gari (Fraser Island). There are intense, polarised opinions over dingo conservation and control. How should we live with dingos? Native wildlife or feral dogs? Wild or domesticated? A tourist attraction or a threat? Rowena Lennox has worked as a book editor for many years and now teaches creative writing. She has published essays, fiction, memoir and poems in Hecate, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, New Statesman, Seizure, Social Alternatives and Southerly, among others. Her first book, Fighting Spirit of East Timor, won a New South Wales Premier's History Award. Bede Haines is a solicitor, specialising in litigation and a partner at Holding Redlich, an Australian commercial law firm. He lives in Sydney, Australia. Known to read books, ride bikes and eat cereal (often). bede.haines@holdingredlich.com Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/animal-studies

The Photo Detective
The Shot Heard Round the World at The Concord Museum

The Photo Detective

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2021 26:43


It doesn't take hindsight to realize you're living in historic times. This last year has taught us that.  This week's guest told me that residents of Lexington and Concord immediately recognized the significance of April 19, 1775, and saved pieces to document that day. A few years ago, the Concord Museum in Concord, Massachusetts assembled a temporary exhibit called The Shot Heard Round the World.  It was an amazing display of ordinary and extraordinary bits of history.  Now they've created a permanent exhibit of the same name. It's one of my favorite museums but don't worry if you can't travel to see it. Their website is worth exploring.  Concord Museum was the first cultural institution to be officially recognized by the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission for this “Shot Heard Round the World” microsite  We've plenty of time before the 250th celebration in 2026.   Related Episodes:Episode 49: Women Patriots with Mary TedescoEpisode 79: The American Revolution and Abraham LincolnLinks:Concord MuseumA Revolutionary TrioSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:David F. Wood has been Curator at the Concord Museum since 1985. He has published The Concord Museum: Decorative Arts from a New England Collection and An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum, which won the American Association of State and Local History Leadership in History Award and the Historic New England Honor Book award for 2007. He has also published a variety of other articles regarding cabinetmaking and clock-making in Concord, MassachusettsAbout Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles, and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale
Bill Waiser on Almighty Voice, and how history is written and re-written

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2021 53:14


Bill Waiser is a western Canadian historian. He has published more than a dozen books– many of them prize-winning. A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, for example, won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.  Bill has been appointed to the Order of Canada, awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, named a distinguished university professor, and granted a D.Litt. He was the 2018 recipient of the Royal Society of Canada J.B. Tyrrell medal, presented for “outstanding work” in Canadian history, as well as the 2018 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award. We talk about his most recent book In Search of Almighty Voice, Resistance and Reconciliation (Fifth House, 2020), about the life of Almighty Voice - a member of the One Arrow Willow Cree who died violently at the hands of Canada's North-West Mounted Police in 1897 - and how his violent death spawned a succession of conflicting stories — in newspapers, magazines, pulp fiction, plays and film; about how history is written and re-written, and why an 'accurate' depiction of the life and death of Almighty Voice matters.   Clarification: According to Statscan indigenous people make up 4.9% of Canada's population, 16.3% of Saskatchewan's population. 

6-minute Stories
"The Boston Massacre - 1770" by Randell Jones (reprise from Feb. 2020)

6-minute Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2021 8:35


BecomingAmerica250.com is a new project to help people touch history where it happened during the 250th anniversary of a Southern colonial odyssey, 1769 to 1789 as we were becoming America. Randell Jones is the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. He has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award medal from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution for his body of work. He is the editor and publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project and producer of the “6-minute Stories” podcast. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

First Question
Chris Watts: Winner Of 2020's Douchebag Of Modern History Award For The Year Of 2020

First Question

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2021 40:43


Join us as we discuss 2020's listener pick for douchebag of the year, from a pool of three of the biggest *alleged* douchebags, according to you, our listeners! You voted, we listened! Following is the Chris Watts episode, for your listening {dis}-pleasure. If you like what you're hearing, consider joining our Patreon, where you can receive toasts, our eternal gratitude, the complete videos of our live podcast recordings every week, which only patrons get, and the chance to join us via video conference for an upcoming episode!Join First Question podcast on Patreon, and get benefits like full VIDEO episodes of the First Question podcast, merch (included in certain Patreon membership tiers), shoutouts, toasts, exclusive episodes, and more! https://www.patreon.com/FirstQuestionIn this video, we've used clips from the hit show The Office, copyright NBC Universal, via The Office's official YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-m3RtoguAQ...and...Clips from the wonderful YouTube channel, JCS Criminology, a channel which you should check out, if you like psychology and/or true crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3k_Inm45Q&t=65s...and...Shannan Watts' Facebook Live announcement of her pregnancy, via:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXloO-vMq1A

6-minute Stories
“Daniel Boone in Kentucky, 1770” by Randell Jones - a reprise

6-minute Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2020 7:51


Randell Jones is the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. He has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award medal from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution for his body of work. He is the editor and publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project and producer of the “6-minute Stories” podcast. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

History Does You
The War in Italy 1943-1944: Husky, Salerno, and Ortona

History Does You

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2020 51:30


By May of 1943, the Allies had thrown out the German and Italian forces in North Africa, but what to do next. The Soviet Union was facing the bulk of the German army on the Eastern front and the political pressure to open up led to the decision to invade Sicily and mainland Italy. After fierce landings at Sicily and at Salerno, the Allies became bogged down along several German defensive lines. To break the stalemate, General Bernard Montgomery directed the 1st Canadian Infantry Division to take the island resort town of Ortona. What followed was some of the fiercest urban fighting of the war, eventually, the battle would earn the nickname, "mini-Stalingrad". To help explain the course of the battle and the previous events we interview Dr. Mark Zuehlke. He is an award-winning author generally considered to be Canada's foremost military historian. His Canadian Battle Series is the most exhaustive recounting of the battles and campaigns fought by any nation during World War II to have been written by a single author. In recognition of his contribution to Canadian history, he was awarded the 2014 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award. In 2007, his book, For Honour's Sake: The War of 1812 and the Brokering of an Uneasy Peace won the Canadian Author's Association Lela Common Award for Canadian History. The Canadian Battle Series book, Holding Juno captured the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2006.

McConnell Center Podcast
A Forgotten Shade of Blue: A Historical Study of Kentucky’s Significance in the Civil War with Howard Muncy

McConnell Center Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 28:54


Episode Summary Jackson County High School history teacher Howard Muncy joins McConnell Center Director Dr. Gary L. Gregg II to share some of the lesser known history of Kentucky and its role in the Civil War. Howard recently received both the Graduate Dean's Citation and the Outstanding Graduate in History Award from the University of Louisville for his extraordinary work on his MA thesis, entitled "A Forgotten Shade of Blue: Support for the Union and the Constitutional Republic in Southeastern Kentucky during the Civil War Era.” Links Mentioned James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Richard Carwardine, Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power Christopher Phillips, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border Stay Connected Visit us at McConnellcenter.org Subscribe to our newsletter  Facebook: @mcconnellcenter Instagram: @ulmcenter  Twitter: @ULmCenter This podcast is a production of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. Views expressed in this show are those of the participants and not necessarily those of the McConnell Center.

Talkingbooksandstuff's podcast
Episode 51 - Bill Waiser

Talkingbooksandstuff's podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2020 22:34


Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Author Bill Waiser is a western Canadian historian. He has published over a dozen books–-many of them recognized by various awards. A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Bill is a frequent public speaker and contributor to radio, television and print media. He has also served on a number of national, provincial, and local boards. Bill has been appointed to the Order of Canada, awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, named a distinguished university professor, and granted a D.Litt. He is the 2018 recipient of the Royal Society of Canada J.B. Tyrrell medal, presented for “outstanding work” in Canadian history, as well as the 2018 Governor General's History Award for Popular Media: The Pierre Berton Award.

6-minute Stories
"Daniel Boone in Kentucky, 1770" by Randell Jones

6-minute Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2020 7:13


Randell Jones is the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. He has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award medal from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution for his body of work. He is the editor and publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project and producer of the “6-minute Stories” podcast. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

6-minute Stories
"The Boston Massacre, 1770" by Randell Jones

6-minute Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2020 8:37


BecomingAmerica250.com is a new project to help people touch history where it happened during the 250th anniversary of a Southern colonial odyssey, 1769 to 1789 as we were becoming America.Randell Jones is the award-winning author of In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. He has received two Kentucky History Awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the national History Award medal from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution for his body of work. He is the editor and publisher of the Personal Story Publishing Project and producer of the “6-minute Stories” podcast. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Face2Face with David Peck
Episode 441 - Ashley Brook & Adam Bunch & Canadiana

Face2Face with David Peck

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2019 42:32


Ashley Brook, Adam Bunch and Face2Face host David Peck talk about the new web TV series Canadiana, meteorites and misconceptions, D’Arcy McGee, setting the record straight and why Canadian history isn’t boring. Synopsis The myth-shattering group of historians who traced Québec’s downfall to a love triangle – is launching a second season of stories and adventures from our provocative past.A documentary web series utilizing scenic footage, archival photos and whimsical animation, Canadiana is a team effort of four acclaimed documentary filmmakers Ashley Brook, Kyle Cucco, Josef Beeby - and host Adam Bunch.Their mission: to retell Canadian history the way it should have been told all along, entertainingly, and with an eye for the personalities, clashes, outrages and acts of passion that went into creating a nation. Canadiana is a documentary series on the hunt for the most incredible stories in Canadian history. Featuring playful animations and scenic footage, the series follows host Adam Bunch as he travels across the country, exploring the tales that have made Canada the unique place it is today. From scandalous love triangles to secret experiments, from rebels and freedom fighters to pirates and assassins, we uncover the fascinating and the unexpected. This isn’t the history you learned in school. For more info about the new series and to watch the episodes head here. Biographies: Ashley Brook is a Toronto-based video producer with ten years of experience in the documentary film and factual television industry. She is president at The Canadiana Project and co-creator/producer of the Canadiana series. Aside from her own work, she has credits on a variety of internationally acclaimed projects including series and one-offs for HBO, CBC, Discovery, National Geographic, and VICE; cinematic virtual reality series like Equator 360: The Line of Life; and Canadian theatrical docs like Long Time Running (The Tragically Hip) and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. Ashley holds a degree in Communications and post-graduate level diplomas in Documentary Filmmaking and Film & Television Post-Production. Adam Bunch is a Canadian author and the creator of The Toronto Dreams Project. His first book, The Toronto Book of the Dead, was nominated for a 2018 Heritage Toronto Award. He writes an history column for Spacing Magazine and his articles about Canadian history have also appeared in The Huffington Post, Torontoist, and Yonge Street. In 2012, his work on The Toronto Dreams Project earned an honourable mention for the Governor General’s History Award for Community Programming; the project has been featured by a variety of media outlets, including CBC Radio’s Metro Morning, The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail, and has been put on display by prestigious cultural institutions like the Art Gallery of Ontario. He's a former columnist for the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and a former member of the Polaris Music Prize jury. Adam has lectured about history at the Royal Ontario Museum, The Toronto Public Library, PitchTalks, U of T, York University, Seneca College, and Trampoline Hall. Image Copyright: Unlikely Pear Productions. Used with permission. F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission. For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here. With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sherri & Carrie's Real Estate Cafe
09 - Temma Frecker from The Booker School in Port Williams

Sherri & Carrie's Real Estate Cafe

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2019 22:33


Today’s guest is Temma Frecker, a teacher at The Booker School in Port Williams. Temma and her husband have taught around the world but when they wanted to settle down, they saw that the Annapolis Valley had everything that they were looking for. Temma first talks about how the house that she and her husband found in Port Williams is their dream home. Her major in university was international development studies, which led her down an atypical path to becoming a teacher. We then hear about the modern way that The Booker School teaches its students and a recent lesson where the students learned about tough realities. Temma instructs a cooking program after school once a week, so she shares what this is like and information about other unique activities at the school. She taught an award-winning program last year about understanding different historical perspectives and discusses what it involved, including the media attention that it received. To finish the episode, Temma provides advice for anyone who is aspiring to become a teacher.   Covered topics: - Temma’s background. - The best attributes of living in the Annapolis Valley. - Weather concerns that people have about the valley and the whole province of Nova Scotia. - How Temma became a teacher and why she chose to work at The Booker School. - What makes The Booker School different compared to others. - An upcoming project at the school about eating healthy and sustainable food. - Educational topics focused on in the cooking class that Temma teaches. - The Governor General’s History Award for Teaching Excellence. - The press coverage generated from the history project. - Words of wisdom for people who would like to become teachers.   Links: https://www.bookerschool.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookerschool/

Books and Ideas at Montalto

‘Author, ecologist, historian, dyslexic and honourary wombat (part time)’ – that’s Jackie French’s job title, according to her own website. Jackie French writes novels and non-fiction; fantasy, sci-fi, historical fiction and ecology; for adults and for kids. Over the course of her career, she’s written a dizzying 140 books. Loved by Australian kids for picture books including the Diary of a Wombat series and Queen Victoria’s Underpants, she’s a passionate advocate for dyslexics and children’s literature and has served as the Australian Children’s Laureate. Jackie has won countless awards across various genres, including the NSW Premier’s History Award. Her latest novel, Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies, is about a secret finishing school for young women during World War I. At Montalto Vineyard, Jackie French joins host Wendy Orr to discuss historical fiction, children’s literacy and an extraordinary life in literature.

On War & Society
Episode 20 – Uncovering the Secret History of Soldiers

On War & Society

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2018 28:27


Since the late 1990s, Canadian historian Tim Cook has carved out a niche in the field of First World War history. In his two-volume social history of the war, he spoke of a soldiers’ culture, which bound Canadians together on the battlefields and helped them cope with the immense stress and strain of war from 1914 to 1918. This year, published with Allen Lane, Tim released The Secret History of Soldiers, a book dedicated solely to this soldiers’ culture that has become his most significant contribution to our understanding of the First World War in Canada. Tim speaks of a few of the aspects of this soldiers’ culture, including swearing, slang and material objects. At the end of the war, this culture did not necessarily disappear. In Legion halls and reunions, veterans recreated this culture in a civilian world, however temporary it might have been. Tim Cook is the First World War historian at the Canadian War Museum. He is the author of 11 books, including Shock Troops, Vimy and most recently, The Secret History of Soldiers. Among many others, he is the recipient of the RBC Taylor Prize, J.W. Dafoe Prize (twice), Ottawa Book Award (twice) and the C.P. Stacey Award (twice). He was recently awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media. He is a Member of the Order of Canada. References  Tim Cook. “Battles of the Imagined Past: Canada’s Great War and Memory.” Canadian Historical Review 95, no. 3 (2014): 417–26. ------. The Secret History of Soldiers: How Canadians Survived the Great War. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2018. ------. Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. Toronto: Allen Lane, 2017. Mark Humphries. “Between Commemoration and History: The Historiography of the Canadian Corps and Military Overseas.” Canadian Historical Review 95, no. 3 (2014): 384–97. Amy Shaw. “Expanding the Narrative: A First World War with Women, Children, and Grief.” Canadian Historical Review 95, no. 3 (2014): 398­–406. Jonathan F. Vance. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997.

St. Louis on the Air
Nuanced challenges, disparities face black doctors and other medical professionals of color

St. Louis on the Air

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2018 17:12


Wash U’s Adia Harvey Wingfield, the 2018 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of History Award, discusses her latest research.

Alabama History Podcasts
Episode 29 Rebecca Minder, Alabama Heritage Magazine, 2018 Digital History Award, May 2018

Alabama History Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2018 12:18


Alabama Heritage Magazine won the 2018 Digital History Award (Large Project) from the Alabama Historical Association. Digital media editor Rebecca Minder talks about the award and the project that secured it for Alabama Heritage. The podcast featured an interview with Rebecca concerning Alabama Heritage's 30th anniversary, November 2016, Episode 20.

Alabama History Podcasts
Episode 017 Encyclopedia of Alabama, 2016 AHA Digital History Award Winner

Alabama History Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2017 9:55


Winner of the inaugural Alabama Historical Association Digital History Award for Large Projects in 2016. EOA editors Laura Hill, Claire Wilson, and Christopher Maloney discuss the past, present, and future of this informational resource.