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[Man and woman reading sign outside replica of pioneer home, Alberta. Photo promoting Alberta taken for the Western Travel Bureau]. August 1956. Gar Lunney. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
Tag: research methods
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series where, each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
Warning: As some of you may already know, Erudit has been down for the last week. Since several of the journal articles I needed were only available through this service, I was not able to include them in this month’s Best New Articles. So this is a partial list, and I will include the missing issues next month.
This month I read articles from:
- Canadian Journal of Native Studies 28 no. 1 (2018)
- Journal of Canadian Studies 53, no. 1 (Winter 2019)
- Canadian Historical Review 100 no. 1 (March 2019)
- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 55, no. 2 (2017)
- Acadiensis 47, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2018)
- Quebec Studies 66 (2018)
- Individual articles
Here are my favourites:
Special thanks to Krystl Raven, Peter Scales, Tarisa Dawn Little, Jesse Thistle, Osgoode Society Oral History, Alexandra Giancarlo, Peter Anderson, Janis Thiessen, Shirley Tillotson, Alex Green, Andrea Blackman, Sandra (@khassl), and Terry Smyth for their recommendations and advice, and Jessica Knapp for her feedback on a draft of this blog post!
As you may remember from my interview with Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta, I am an oral history devotee. I also used oral history extensively in my dissertation, thirty-five interviews in all. But as an oral historian, I have always had an uncomfortable relationship with transcripts and transcription. So today I thought I would unpack some of the existing discussion around transcription. Let’s get started!
Hudson’s Bay Squirrel, Black Squirrel, Grey Squirrel. Peter Mazell. Peter Winkworth Collection. Library and Archives Canada, e002140128. Copyright expired.
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Note from Andrea: As promised, today we have a special guest post from Claire Campbell! As many of you already know, Claire Campbell is an environmental historian who has been featured several times on the Roundup for her fantastic articles on NiCHE and Borealia. So I’m super excited to be able to present a new blog post from her — a meditation on beginning a new research project. Enjoy!
Bucknell University’s Claire Campbell – Faculty Profile Shoot
Michael KubelClaire Campbell is an associate professor of history at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is interested in the environmental history of North America and the North Atlantic world. She has taught at universities across Canada and in Denmark, in the areas of history, Canadian Studies, and Environment and Sustainability. Publications include Shaped by the West Wind: Nature & History in Georgian Bay (2004), A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (2011), and Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada (2013) with Robert Summerby-Murray. Her most recent work, Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada (forthcoming 2017), uses environmental history to expand public history and discussions of sustainability at national historic sites.
Because, let’s face it – who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month I post a list of my favourite new articles! Don’t forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
- Journal of New Brunswick Studies 7 (2) (2016) -> no articles on Canadian history
- American Review of Canadian Studies 46, no. 4 (2016) -> no articles on Canadian history
- London Journal of Canadian Studies 31, special issue on Atlantic Canada: Heritage and Regeneration II1 (Autumn 2016)
- The Canadian Geographer 60, no. 4 (Winter 2016)
- BC Studies, no 192 (Winter 2016/17)
If there is one topic that goes nearly completely “unwritten” in the field of history, it is managing research. Whether you are writing your dissertation or writing your latest article, managing your primary and secondary sources is extremely important. This is especially the case for historians since the sheer number of sources that we use is enormous.
Back when I was writing my dissertation (in the dark ages of 2009), your options for management were pretty limited. I initially tried printing everything out, but that created mountains of paper that I seldom read once, if at all. I also tried keeping pdfs on my computer, but those were the days before cloud storage, and too many pdfs was a problem. To say nothing of the difficulty of searching for the information I wanted.
However, as I began reworking my dissertation into a book manuscript, I quickly realized that I needed to have a better system. So today, I’m going to talk about the workflow that I’ve developed using reference management software.
Picnicking on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, Mallorytown Landing, Thousand Islands national park (June 1950). Chris Lund. Canada. National Film Board of Canada. Library and Archives Canada, e010955677. CC by 2.0
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