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A "Genuine Relationship with the Actual": New Perspectives on Primary Sources, History and the Internet in the Classroom.
- Michael Eamon
- Sociology
- 1 May 2006
THE PEDAGOGIC VALUE of using archival holdings2 for the teaching of history has long been appreciated. Using primary sources in the teaching of history transcends the rote learning of facts and…
“Don't Speak to me, but Write on this”: The Childhood Almanacs of Mary and Katherine Byles
- Michael Eamon
- HistoryThe New England Quarterly
- 24 May 2012
In mid-eighteenth-century Boston, Mather Byles Sr. gave almanacs to his daughters to use as diaries and commonplace books. This collection, now residing in Ottawa, offers a rare glimpse into the…
Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America
- Michael Eamon
- History
- 24 April 2015
Printing presses were instrumental in creating and upholding a sense of community during the eighteenth century. While the importance of print in the development of colonial America and the nascent…
Constructing a Collegiate Compass
- Michael Eamon
- Education
- 2016
Fifty years ago the founders of Canada’s Trent University consciously chose to follow ‘the collegiate way’ as they planned a new institution of higher education. It was hoped that this model—part…
The War Against Public Forgetfulness: Commemorating 1812 in Canada
- Michael Eamon
- Political Science
- 2014
In October 2011, the Government of Canada began a two-year, nation-wide celebration of the bicentenary of the War of 1812. The widely-criticized initiative returned the public eye to a traditional…
A Colonial Print Ascendancy: The Domestic Press, Sociability and Elite Formation in Eighteenth-Century Halifax and Québec City
- Michael Eamon
- History
- 18 January 2016
Finding "Enlightenment" in the National Archives of Canada: The Commonplace Book of James Sholto Douglas
- Michael Eamon
- History
- 2001
This article chronicles the author’s exploration of the provenance and content of the papers of James Sholto Douglas, a student at the University of Edinburgh during the 1750s. Extrapolating from…
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