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By: Melanie Escobar This week’s blog post focuses on the Nuremberg Trials and historians’ roles in determining the outcomes of these...

By: Ethan Chan In Plato’s Republic, he said that in the ideal society it would be necessary for leaders to use deception or useful...

By: Isra Henson As discussed in the previous blog post, historians must be careful when studying and writing about historical events. All...

By: Ethan, Melanie, and Isra The question of whether historians should act as society’s moral compass is asked time and time again. More...

What is the Great Man Theory of History? How has it been articulated? What are the assumptions inherent to it?

By: Ethan Chan In our current political climate, I always hear the words ‘woke’ and ‘political correctness’ being thrown about. These...

By: Isra Henson When studying Indigenous sources, we often look at oral sources exclusively. There are limited archaeological or literary...

By: Melanie Escobar This month’s blog theme revolves around Indigenous history, and the Sixties Scoop is an important topic within that...

Today, the observance of Remembrance Day involves more than just remembering the soldiers who died in the First World War.

How do we identify the situations in which history is being culturally appropriated versus the situations in which history has been...

Ethan, Melanie, and Isra Happy Halloween, everyone! In the spirit of Halloween, we wanted to include some historical context of the...

Welcome back to Queen’s, history students! Our names are Dillon and Isobel and we’re excited to be the co-presidents of the History...

By: Ethan Chan In many history seminars, race and racial history are consistently discussed. Specifically, discussing the history of the...

The exact origins of April Fools’ Day are a mystery. Everyone knows today as a day that people play pranks, jokes and create elaborate...

By Kai Siallagan If you’re anything like many history students, you’ve probably heard the question “why history?” This question takes on...

Mercy Otis Warren is the epitome of being overlooked in the historical field simply due to her gender. Warren published a three-volume...

By: Ethan Chan I believe that the internet as a historical resource represents postmodernism at its best. Two digital historians, Michael...

By Kai Siallagan This article is the third and final part in a trilogy about the intersection of the academic practice of history and...

By: Chloe Fine In recent years, thanks to the extensive archival research of Queen’s University PHD student Edward Thomas, the history...

By: Amy Abraham Located on the west side of Queen’s main campus, across from the Smith School of Business is a building that is unlikely...