How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with AgentNDN and Elysse Deveaux about decolonization, memes, and semiotics. What are the tools can use to interrupt colonialism and colonial structures?  

More about AgentNDN: Agent NDN is a Listuguj Mi'gmaw PhD student, lecturer, musician, author, memer, and an outspoken social critic on Twitter and Facebook. His interests are varied and include everything from occultism and conspiracy studies to cognitive science and psychedelics, but most of his energy gets directed towards learning and teaching about the past and present of settler colonialism on Turtle Island. 

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More about Elysse: Elysse Deveaux is an intermedia educator and researcher with over 10 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker and media producer for social and educational organizations (Twenty-One Toys, University of Toronto's iThink Education Initiative). Their current graduate research focuses on curriculum development for critical media literacies at the K-12 level, with an emphasis on visual pedagogies and representations in digital culture. Connect with Elysse at synapsemedia.org

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How do we teach history in this moment and others? In this conversation, I speak with Georgina Riel/Waabishki Mukwa Kwe, an Ojibway educational consultant and artist, about how can get  caught in language and to reaffirm colonial ideas of history, the past, and people in ways we didn't realize. In particular, we talk about the idea of "artifacts" when teaching Canadian history, especially in relation to teaching about indigenous people, and how "artifacts" insinuate a dead culture. 

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In this Source Saturday conversation I speak with Amber Lloydlangston (Curator of Regional History), Olivia Musico (community collector), and Ghaida Hamdun (co-founder of Black Lives Matter London) about Museum London's Black Lives Matter exhibit. The Black Lives Matter wall exhibit is a display of 117 posters that were used during the Black Lives Matter protest held in London, Ontario on June 6, 2020. Olivia Musico, Ghaida Hamdun, and Keira Roberts collected and co-curated this exhibit in collaboration with Amber Lloydlangston and in this conversation we talk about the process of curating the exhibit and the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement in London, ON as well as around the world.

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How do we teach history in this moment? Chronicles of Adam creator Dontavius Williams talks about what it means to teach history using tools that empower and invite inclusivity. What does it mean to put students in the driver's seat and listen to the stories they need to navigate - and be seen in - this world together?

In this Pandemic Pedagogy conversation, Dontavius Williams and I talk about the "we" more than the "me" and the importance of confronting difficult histories and embedded racisms. We talk about classroom teaching, but also about debates about monuments and memorials and the reenacting Dontavius does in Chronicles of Adam. 

Filmed at the end of August, Dontavius provides a powerful voice to how central our work as history educators is when we're trying to make change for the people we teach. 

The Chronicles of Adam is a first person Historical Interpretation of a slave by the name of Adam that blends historical research, in situ context, and performance art together in a powerful learning experience that is really a sort of ministry to the legacy of those who build America while enslaved. 

Learn more about Dontavius and The Chronicles of Adam

On the website: www.thechroniclesofadam.weebly.com

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chronicleofadam

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More about Don:

Dontavius Williams, proud alumnus of Clinton College (Rock Hill, SC) is the sole proprietor of The Chronicles of Adam. He is not only a storyteller but also a Certified Interpretive Guide who has been trained on the art of interpreting history through various means. Dontavius has been in the field of public history and storytelling for over 10 years and now travels the country interpreting slavery at various historic sites, schools, and churches and community events.

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In this video, Dr. Glassford talks about a letter sent home from London in 1943 to demonstrate how prominent emotional labour and creating networks of home was for many women in the Red Cross. We talk about gender, and gendered expectations of care and service during the war, and how women’s experiences and expectations may have grated against these.

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More about Sarah: Sarah Glassford is a social historian and an archivist in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor. She is the author of Mobilizing Mercy: A History of the Canadian Red Cross, and coeditor of *A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. *

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In this video, Jennifer talks about how she used oral histories to refute the dominant historiographical notion that Jews did not participate in homefront war activities. In fact, Jewish women’s participation in home front activities carried a much different meaning and weight than it did for other women due to their Jewishness. In our conversation, she showed quotes from her oral history participants and paired them with photographs with little information attached, to demonstrate how the histories of Jewish women’s experiences during the war can be lost without speaking to the women themselves.

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More about Jen: Jennifer Shaw is a PhD candidate in the Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of Jewish women and girls on the Canadian home front during World War II, and how their activities affected the wider Jewish community. In addition to her studies, she is a mom to four active kids, and works as a research assistant both in Western’s medical school and for a University of Toronto professor. She sleeps when she can find the time.

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Dr. Amy Shaw discusses her co-edited collection on women and girls in Canada and Newfoundland during WW2. *Dr. Shaw underscores that by listening to the women themselves – the archival sources and oral histories that are available – we can complicate the ways we understand wartime for women in Canada and Newfoundland. We also talk about a photograph from the Royal Canadian Navy and how camaraderie and safety was presented to young women and their parents as being aspects of military service.

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More about Amy: Amy Shaw is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Lethbridge and a research associate with the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies. She is the author of Crisis of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in Canada during the First World War and coeditor of A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War.

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In this video I speak with Dr. Matt Luckett about the digitization project of his grandparents' letters during World War Two. Dr. Luckett's grandfather, Elmer Kurtz Luckett, was a steam engineer in the United States Navy who lived though the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In our conversation, we talk about the 600 letters he has digitized and read and the ways using letters like these provides us a glimpse into the lives of the people who served and their families. When understanding these lives, we can understand more about ourselves.

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More about Matt: Dr. Matt Luckett studies and writes about the American West, World War II, and American History in general. He completed his Ph.D. in American history at UCLA in 2014. He is the academic coordinator for the Master of Arts in the Humanities (HUX) Program at California State University Dominguez Hills, and also teaches at Sacramento State and Sierra College. His first book, Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing and Culture in Western Nebraska, 1850 - 1890, will be released by the University of Nebraska Press on November 1, 2020.

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The Canadian Letters and Images Project is a digitized collection of letters from military conflicts that involved Canadians. In this video, I speak to Dr. Stephen Davies the director of the Project about two letters from this collection.

See the Mayse's collection here: https://www.canadianletters.ca/collections/all/collection/20728

Read the letters we talked about in the video here: 

Will's letter to his wife: https://www.canadianletters.ca/document-60881?position=104&list=u6N6BOVreYG06sqeiEUs_8SGJo6R0RKBQs8CT68_vIA

Betty's letter to her husband: https://www.canadianletters.ca/document-50683?position=116&list=YORvGbY6x0YaeDks640BlYSvw_k2WYqAqG4Z2P1cBWA

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More about Stephen: Dr. Stephen Davies is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. He did a BA at McMaster University, a MA at the University of Warwick, and a PhD at McMaster University. He has taught at Memorial University, Nipissing University, Concordia University, the University of Ottawa, and he currently teaches at Vancouver Island University. He created The Canadian Letters and Images Project in 2000 and has been the director since then.

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What is happening behind the scenes in the news media during the contentious US election? How can historians help us understand this moment? In this video, I speak to journalism historian Professor Emeritus Michael Palmer from Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France about the 2000 election. Using this history, we talk about the current election and the pressures international news agencies are under to deliver when there is yet to be a definitive result.

Professor Palmer’s book International News Agencies: A History is published by Palgrave Macmillan and can be purchased where ever you buy books. However, the e-version is also readily available for download through most university library systems.

https://www.amazon.ca/International-News-Agencies-Michael-Palmer/dp/3030311775