Starting today, I will be writing a monthly column for ActiveHistory.ca. My posts will primarily explore history and the internet by drawing on some of the more recent debates, services, sites, and web trends that might be relevant or particularly useful to the historical community in general. My first post, for example, explores how short [...]

MY NARRATIVE PRETENSE I thought I’d frame my inaugural post with an homage to Bill Lawrence’s superb sitcom Scrubs. If you haven’t seen the show, the plot is focused through a reflective first-person narrative and each episode title employes “my” as prefix to match. It’s a useful means of introducing myself and a narrative style [...]