All Time is Now: Making History in a Digital World

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

A Blackberry can't be an Apple.

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Perception is everything. Perception is a first impression, it's the car you buy, the shampoo you use, the clothes you wear, the puppy y...
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Blink, and...damn it, already missed it.

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I think it's quite fitting that my first post in (yeesh, I can barely believe it) over two years was compelled into being by thoughts on...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

History in its Natural Environment

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As public historians, we aim to connect the public to history using methods that are relevant and accessible in the public realm. We must ba...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Bottom's Got a Brand New Bag

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In the 1970s, there was the "social history revolution." Now, there is immense focus on the internet, and how it has ushered in an...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

In the business of history

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Perhaps the largest challenge that faces the public historian is that we have to strive to maintain historical integrity, while catering to ...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

The Rhetoric of Hope

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History surrounds President Barack Obama. From blackberry to basketball games, it seems everything this man does is of historic proportions....
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Everything Old is New Again

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With all the hype surrounding technology and the things it allows us to do, there is a tendency to assume that everything it permits us to d...
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Natalie Dyck
A short history of recent times: I graduated from Western in 2004 with an honors BA in history. I gave starting a career in banking while simultaneously mastering Toronto nightlife a try. Putting it lightly, one of those things was awesome and the other nearly ate my soul from the inside. After exorcising the bank demon, I spent two and a half years working as the Events Coordinator at an ESL school in Toronto, which was a really fun learning experience. Even so, I was thrilled to leave it behind to head back to school in 2008 for my MA in Public History. Fabulous year in every way, 'nuff said. Freshly graduated in 2009, I made a most unexpected entry into the public service in Ottawa working at Library and Archives Canada, where I have been for (gulp) nearly three years. While I respect O-town for what it is, I detest the crippling cold and the absence of excitement, and dream of the day I finally claw my way back to Toronto or on to New York. In the meantime however, I am lucky enough to have a job that combines history and PR/Comms, where I am learning more each day and having a hand in shaping how we remember, present, and access our past.
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