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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Feb 28, 20193 min read
TBT: Saying Goodbye and Farewell to M*A*S*H
Hello again, Queen’s History! We’ve got another throwback for you. This day in 1983 the world said, “Goodbye,” and “Farewell,” to the...
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Henry Y. Jeong, Contributor
Feb 8, 20195 min read
How to approach the Senior-Level Thesis : Part 1 - Trust The Process
Hemingway at his desk Writing a senior-level thesis is a rare feat among Queen’s history students. If the SOLUS-based statistics serves...
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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Jan 30, 20192 min read
TBT: The Death of Charles I of England
Happy Thursday, Watson Blog readers! This TBT is a wee bit different, mostly because this upcoming event happened yesterday. However, the...
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Cade Cowan, Blog Manager
Jan 24, 20192 min read
TBT: It's Been 58 Years Since the U.S. Airforce (Almost) Vaporized North Carolina
Image Credits: Laura Coyne, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator Historians tend to record big, dramatic events. It is easy to...
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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Nov 20, 20186 min read
How to Write a History Essay
As I’m sure all history students know, essay writing is something that we spend a lot of time doing. It’s fair to say that these tasks...
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Tanya Zenobio, Contributor
Nov 15, 20181 min read
Remembering a favoured Prime Minister and closeted spiritualist
William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's Tenth Primeminister Despite seeing the Canadian public through two World Wars, the once noble name...
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Don Finlayson, Alumni
Nov 12, 20186 min read
My Mom, The Wren
Betty and Ross in 2006 celebrating 60 years of marriage. Betty and Ross during their service, 1944-1945 A visit to the Automotive...
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Cade Cowan, Blog Manager
Nov 9, 20182 min read
Remembrance of the First World War through Poetry
The written word can often convey meaning and sentiment better than any other medium especially when there is a tragic intimacy to the...
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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Oct 25, 20182 min read
#TBT: The Battle of Agincourt
Image Credits: Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer The Battle of Agincourt took place in 1415 between the historic rivals of France and England in...
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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Oct 18, 20182 min read
#TBT: The Battle of Assandun
Image Credits: Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer and Editor Danish Vikings play a major role in early English history. People often forget that...
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Cade Cowan, Blog Manager
Oct 11, 20182 min read
#TBT The Legacy of Matthew Shepard
Image Credit: Laura Coyne, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s death. Matthew...
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Cade Cowan, Blog Manager
Oct 4, 20183 min read
#TBT Happy 436th Birthday to the Gregorian Calendar!
Image Credits: Laura Coyne, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator “It is pleasant for an old man to be able to go to bed on September 2,...
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Shannyn Bald, Blog Writer
Oct 2, 20183 min read
History Student Probs: How to Survive Awkward Questioning this Thanksgiving
Image Credits: Laura Coyne, Marketing and Social Media Coordinator Hello, Queen’s! Welcome back for another exciting year! This year, The...
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Sameer Gupta
Mar 8, 20183 min read
The Quiet Credo of Virginia Woolf
"Intellectual freedom depends on material things." Virginia Woolf lived in the 20th century, and yet nearly 80 years after her death the...
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Sameer Gupta
Feb 5, 20182 min read
A Country of Crossroads
Afghanistan embodies the notion of a crossroad in every sense of the word. A tripartite meeting place, it has made the regions which...
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Cade Cowan
Feb 1, 20184 min read
The Autopsy of an Icon
Winston Churchill, British Bulldog. An image of a balding, diminutive-yet-tempestuous man with a cigar firmly entrenched between his lips...
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Cade Cowan
Jan 19, 20184 min read
Canada's Other Marginalized Peoples
The ongoing Reconciliation between Canada and its indigenous peoples represents an important step for the country, as it reckons with a...
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histdsc
Jan 15, 20184 min read
Tales of Love, Lead and Longswords: Dispatches from the World of Dueling
Dueling has a long history as a prescription for bruised egos, and while the practice was illegal in most places, dueling as a means of...
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Sameer Gupta
Jan 12, 20183 min read
#TBT: The Bracero Program
The relationship between Mexico and the United States is as complex as it is old. Each has and continues to loom over the politics and...
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Cade Cowan
Nov 23, 20176 min read
America's King Arthur?
Hey Queen's, congratulations on making it almost through week 11 (hopefully) in one piece! Perhaps lost in the flurry of assignments,...
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