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Northern Visions: Inuit Health Care, Vocational Training, and Social Change during the Early DEW Line Era
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-05)The history of government-Inuit relations is complex and multifaceted. Military megaprojects have played a significant role in the development of government-Inuit relations and in the development of the North socially, ... -
Introduction to the Bash Command Line
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2014-09-20)This lesson uses a Unix shell, which is a command-line interpreter that provides a user interface for the Unix operating system and for Unix-like systems. This lesson will cover a small number of basic commands. By the end ... -
Counting and Mining Research Data with Unix
(The Editorial Board of the Programming Historian, 2014-09-20)This lesson will look at how research data, when organised in a clear and predictable manner, can be counted and mined using the Unix shell. The lesson builds on the lessons “Preserving Your Research Data: Documenting and ... -
Writing the Historian's Macroscope in Public
(American Historical Association, 2014-10)Exploring Big Historical Data: The Historian's Macroscope - A short book summary by the authors exploring their own rationale, and the historical context for the book's themes, including descriptions of the collaborative ... -
Confronting Hitler's Legacy: Canadian Jews and Early Holocaust Discourse, 1933-1956
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-19)This dissertation examines Canadian Jewish thought from the Nazi period through to the immediate postwar era regarding the Nazis’ persecution and murder of European Jewry. It challenges the widely accepted position that ... -
Bourassa’s War: Henri Bourassa and the First World War
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-26)This dissertation examines the perspective of French Canadian nationalist Henri Bourassa during the First World War from 1914-1918. Bourassa was one of the best-known voices rejecting the war’s purpose and value in Canada. ... -
"The Academy Award of Protest": Media, Cooptation, and Radical Identity in the Sixties
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)Through the 1960s and into the early 1970s, radicals in the New Left and the counterculture struggled with how to remain relevant and authentic in the face of skewed and selective mainstream media representation. They often ... -
A Nation of Gamers: The History of Video Games in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)This thesis is a study of the economic, cultural, and political impact of video games in Canada. The trajectory of video games will be mapped beginning with the arrival of video games in Canadian markets in the mid-1970s ... -
“Strictly Non-Committal”: Commonwealth Economic Cooperation and the Great Depression
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-31)This thesis explores the effects of the Great Depression on the nascent British Commonwealth, with particular emphasis on whether economic crisis fostered cooperation or division among member states. In doing so, this ... -
After October: An Analysis of John F. Kennedy's Foreign Policy after the Cuban Missile Crisis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-04)This thesis analyzes President John F. Kennedy’s articulation of foreign policy after the near nuclear confrontation in October 1962. This thesis finds that the Cuban Missile Crisis had a very profound effect on the ... -
Conservatism and British imperialism in India: finding the local roots of empire in Britain and India
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-30)This thesis explores the importance of political conservatism in shaping the ideological and political foundations of British imperialism in India between 1857 and 1914. From the Indian Revolt to the rise of Indian ... -
Finding Community in the Ruins of GeoCities: Distantly Reading a Web Archive
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015-10)This paper provides a brief overview of my work with the GeoCities web archive. Asking the question of “can we find community,” I use it as a case study to explain various methods for distantly reading web archives -
A Region at Odds: Abortion Politics in the Maritime Provinces, 1969-1988
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-01)The inaccessibility of abortion services in the Maritime Provinces remains a constant topic in the media, and yet little research has been conducted to explain the barriers to the procedure in the region. Despite many ... -
A Show of One's Own: The History of Television and the Single Girl in America from 1960
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-19)This thesis analyzes the image of the single girl in American history from 1960. The changes made to her lifestyle through technology, politics, education and the workforce are discussed, as is the impact made by the ... -
Georgian Britishness: How "Britishness" was Defined During the Reigns of the First Three Hanoverian Kings (1714-1820)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-27)This thesis explores the development of “Britishness” or a British identity during the “long” eighteenth century in Great Britain during the reigns of the first three Hanoverian kings, also known as the “Georgian Kings”, ... -
White Paper: Measuring Research Outputs Through Bibliometrics
(University of Waterloo, 2016)This White Paper provides a high-level review of issues relevant to understanding bibliometrics, and practical recommendations for how to appropriately use these measures. This is not a policy paper; instead, it defines ... -
The great WARC adventure: Using SIPS, AIPS, and DIPS to document SLAPPs
(Society for Digital Humanities, 2016-03)This paper outlines the circumstances surrounding a libel case that was filed against academic librarian Dale Askey by publisher Herbert Richardson and his company Edwin Mellen Press, the resulting online debate, protest, ... -
Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-03-14)Contemporary and future historians need to grapple with and confront the challenges posed by web archives. These large collections of material, accessed either through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or through other ... -
An Open-Source Strategy for Documenting Events: The Case Study of the 42nd Canadian Federal Election on Twitter
(Code4Lib, 2016-04-25)This article examines the tools, approaches, collaboration, and findings of the Web Archives for Historical Research Group around the capture and analysis of about 4 million tweets during the 2015 Canadian Federal Election. ... -
The Troubled Life and Loves of Lady Anne Lennard: Illegitimacy, sexuality, and mistressdom at the court of Charles II, 1690-1720
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Despite her infamy, the life of Lady Anne Lennard, formally styled the Countess of Sussex, has never received an in-depth examination. As the natural daughter of King Charles II of England born via his mistress Barbara ...