Public history
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Chapter in edited volume “Identity Palimpsests” out this month
The book Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada, edited by Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi, was published this month by Litwin Press. This edited volume contains a chapter written by myself and the rest of the PCHP team (Raphael Costa, Emanuel da Silva, Susana Miranda, Anna St. Onge), titled “Archiving ‘From Below’:…
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Thank you Jonah Schein!
Thank you to Jonah Schein and his team for inviting me to share my research on the history of Portuguese politics in Toronto with folks in his riding, and to all those who came out on that terribly cold evening. Also great to hear Dave Meslin’s wonderful ideas on how we can break the “fourth…
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2014 History Matters series is here!
The History Matters lecture series is back for its 4th season, this time dedicated to the theme of “Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: Past and Present.” The History Matters series is a collaboration between the Toronto Public Library (TPL), ActiveHistory.ca, a member of York University’s Graduate History Program (myself), and starting this year Heritage Toronto. The…
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