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More Canadian History

• Guest Intro & Log Driver's Waltz as nostalgia?
  Hello Everyone,Christopher Moore has graciously allowed me to intern as a contributor to his blog for the upcoming school term. I'm a 4th year Canadian history undergraduate student in Ottawa and I hope to post about once a week on various topics usually having to do with Canadian history. If anyone's interested, I keep a blog of my own on Canadian […]
• New year, new contributors
  I've been out of school a long time, but I can still accept this week as a new year's beginning. To that end, we have a new feature here. Readers may some new signatures under the posts here from time to time and, with any luck, more variety in the postings. Not that I'm going away.... […]
• History of historical fiction here and there
  In Britain they think Wolf Hall has made the historical novel respectable. Odd, in Canada it has been respectable long enough that Russell Smith, maybe our best younger writer, is sick to death of it. Writing about the past is something I’ve been quite stern about in recent years, just because – in this country, anyway – that activity so dominates the litera […]
• Cropmarks....
  ... no, not crop circles left by aliens. Archaeological journalist Heather Pringle explains that crop marks are legit. British archaeologists have been taking advantage of unique weather conditions to find 'em all over Britain this year, and she describes some of the findings.Does anyone do this in southern Ontario or the prairies, I wonder? […]
• HIstory of Technology
  I use a getting-old laptop with a screen that is roughly square.  Looking at new models, I can't help noticing that they all now offer rectangular screens, a good deal wider than high.This is where the 'net is going. Screens are being letter-boxed to match the picture shape of the DVDs and downloaded films that everyone is watching online. Laptops […]

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