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On this Sunday's episode of the CBC's Unreserved, host Rosanna Deerchild interviews History MA Candidate Jesse Thistle about his research into Métis history. This week's episode, 'Taking the first steps on the road to reconciliation',  also includes interviews with Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Chair Justice Murray Sinclair and journalist Martha Troian.

How will historians study the 1990s or the 2000s? They'll need to use web archives: old websites, from garish GeoCities pages to academic sites to discussion boards, that form a major part of our cultural record. The question of how we can make sense of this sheer abundance of data rests at the heart of Professor Ian Milligan's two new Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grants, carried out in collaboration with researchers across a half dozen universities in Canada and the United States.

By Wendy Philpott

Faculty of Arts

The Governor General of Canada has honoured a Waterloo history professor for her “remarkable contributions” to the understanding of First Nations’ history.

If you ever suspected Canadian politicians flip-flopped on a specific issue, or wondered where they stand on another, a new online tool will help you easily find out for sure.

Professor Ian Milligan at the University of Waterloo is charting the content of millions of archived political web pages spanning the last decade, allowing the public to compare what Canadian political leaders and pundits said in the past compared to now.

Professor Ian Milligan is leading a research project is set to transform the historical profession by revolutionizing the way historians sift through and retrieve sources created in the Internet age.

Two professors from the Department of History will be recognized for their achievements at the Convocation ceremony this morning, Wednesday 10 June. Warmest congratulations to Professors Mitchinson and Kroeker; the Department of History is privileged to have two such outstanding scholars and teachers as members.

The History Department at the University of Waterloo is excited to announce the creation of a student award in honour of three retired professors: Patrick Harrigan, John English, and Wendy Mitchinson.

From the Daily Bulletin: Distinguished Teacher Awards for 2015 will be presented to four faculty members at convocation, associate vice-president, academic Mario Coniglio announced at last night's meeting of the university senate.

Congratulations to  Professor Jim Walker, the recipient of this year's Olivier le Jeune Trailblazer Award from the Ontario Black History Society!

The award was granted in recognition of Professor Walker's work in creating the very first Canadian university courses in African-Canadian history at both the undergraduate and graduate level, which he did here at the University of Waterloo during the early 1970s.

Assistant Professor Susan Roy is in Vancouver this weekend for the opening of the city before the city, a major new exhibition about c̓əsnaʔəm, the ancient Musqueam community over which Vancouver is now built.  The exhibition has three distinct parts, hosted by the Museum of Vancouver, the Musqueam Cultural Centre, and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.