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The Papers: Key Requirements  Papers must be historical and based in extensive research  Papers should engage and/or contextualize critical issues facing Canadian society  Papers must be short and written for a general audience

The Papers: Key Editorial Guidelines  2,000 – 4,000 words in length.  Papers should have clear section headings.  No footnotes or endnotes.  150 word summary clearly highlighting how your paper will add to broader discussions outside of the historical professions.  The present and future implications of your research should be overt.

The Papers: Key Points to Remember  You are writing for a general audience. Avoid technical language and cumbersome sentences.  Papers dealing with all periods of Canadian history are welcome.  Papers should be neither overtly partisan nor excessively descriptive. They should have a clear argument and be anchored in historical context.  Keep quotations and self references to a minimum.

Themes of Papers(to give an idea…)  Aboriginal life, communities and treaty issues  Climate change and the environment  Consumers, buying and retailing  Criminal justice and law reform  Culture and media  Economy, development, taxation and finance  Education  Gender and sexuality  Families and childhood  Intergovernmental relations  Immigration and nationality  International affairs and security  Language, ethnicity and identity  Medicine, health care and public health  Nationalism and regionalism  Politics and Parties  The Constitution  Trade unions and employment  Urban history, planning and local government  Welfare, employment insurance and pensions

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Database of Historians: Key Points  Fill out the forms (a copy is also available on our website).  We will enter you in our database, and put you in touch with interested media, policy researchers, and other professionals.  This is key for the ActiveHistory project and will be developed further over the years as membership grows.

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Editorial Board  8 – 10 People.  Minimal time commitment.  Responsibilities  Advising on an editorial standard for the project  Helping us review papers as they come in  Critically engaging with the website and the project  Interested in being a member of our editorial board? Please contact us at:

A Work in Progress….  Send us your papers  Send us links and news  Volunteer in any respect you can  Tell your colleagues about our site (networking)  Professors  Fellow Graduate Students  Research Personnel  Media  Policy-Makers

Come to Our Roundtable in TORY 210  Tory 8:30 AM, TOMORROW (Wednesday 27 May)  Speakers  Keith Jamieson, Independent Six Nations Cultural Consultant and Curator  Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disability Studies, York University, and Psychiatric Survivor Archives  Robin Elliott, Murmur, murmurtoronto.ca  Jim Clifford, Department of History, York University  Thomas Peace, Department of History, York University

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