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Our pace of publication slowed down this past year; as with everyone else, we were tired. As the seasons shift and the pollen counts increase, let’s take a moment to look at some of the summative work that our students put out this year. Our students do amazing things, and it’s worth always remembering that fact when we’re feeling tired. Enabling our students to do amazing things is why we’re here, right?

Discovering Oneself in the Study of History

Lori Jones (Sessional Instructor, Department of History) and Augatnaaq Eccles, (4th Year Bachelor of Arts Honours Major in History)

I like to show students how history is relevant today but I didn’t need 1918 Flu, Great Depression/New Deal stimulus/relief, Hitler v. Poland, freezing Japanese assets, NATO, and peak Cold War all to be relevant this term.

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Sunflowers, via unsplash.com user Todd Trapani

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The Graduate Degree Research Showcase

How do you characterize a department? That is, if a group of scholars has any impact on the world, how would you go about describing that? One approach would be to look at the things they’ve written. You could collect bibliographies from every work in the field, and search for mentions (and how do you decide what a ‘field’ is, anyway?). You’d need enormous resources to do it, and even once you’d done it, there would still be issues (here’s looking at you, Google Scholar).

This issue of The View From the 4th Floor Paterson is by MA in Public History student, Jasmin Cardillo.

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This newsletter is meant to give a glimpse into what it’s like to do history as part of our community; we feature interviews, reviews, reflections, and very nearly anything that will give a sense of the people and personalities that collectively make The Department Of History At Carleton U; this month, Jasmin sat down with one of our alumns and talked about the paths the journey can take!

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