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  1. Activist archiving in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    People gather in Toronto to discuss what many hope will grow into a movement for archiving grassroots histories.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  3. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  4. Connexions Library: History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, documents and other resources on historical topics.
  5. Culture of Complaint
    The Fraying of America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
  6. E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
  7. Finkelstein, Norman
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
  8. Jörg Friedrich
    Resource Type: Article
    Jörg Friedrich is a Berlin-based author of books on history commonly described as an "independent German Historian". Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand (2002) in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder.
  9. Galeano, Eduardo
    Wikipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist (1940-2015). His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
  10. Historical method
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The historical method comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write histories in form of accounts of the past.
  11. History Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to history in the Sources directory for the media.
  12. Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
    Historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.
  13. The Life of Bertrand Russell
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    A biography of the political activist, philosopher and mathematician.
  14. A Life of Learning
    Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
  15. A Marxist History of the World part 9: How History Happens
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The complex societies that emerged from the division of society into classes also created societies that were wasteful, violent, stagnant and crisis prone. Understanding why is the key to how history happens argues Neil Faulkner.
  16. A Memory of Howard
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
  17. 10 Questions for William Blum
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    "God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
  18. Theories of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Conventional history tends to make ordinary people invisible. The motive forces of history are treated as some combination of "great men" (very occasionally women, almost always hetero and white regardless of gender) and impersonal forces like "economics" (treated in ways that reify them and give them agency outside of the local, everyday human activities that actually produce them).
  19. Review: The Uses and Abuses of History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Review of "The Uses and Abuses of History" by Margaret Macmillan.

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