Canadian history wars

Not to be confused with other History wars.

A series of disputes between Canadian historians in the 1980s and 1990s that focused on the legacy of its persecution of First Nations, including Canadian residential schools, as well as the role of social history became known as the history wars.^[1][2][3][4] Historian Adam Chipnick describes 1998's Who Killed Canadian History? by J. L. Granatstein as "the pinnacle" of these disputes.^[5]

References

1. Taylor, Tony; Guyver, Robert (2011). History Wars and The Classroom: Global Perspectives. IAP. ISBN 978-1-61735-528-8.
2. MacDonald, David B. (2015). "Canada's history wars: indigenous genocide and public memory in the United States, Australia and Canada". Journal of Genocide Research. 17 (4): 411–431. doi:10.1080/14623528.2015.1096583. S2CID 74512843.
3. Clark, Anna (2009). "Teaching the nation's story: comparing public debates and classroom perspectives on history education in Australia and Canada". Journal of Curriculum Studies. 41 (6): 745–762. doi:10.1080/00220270903139635. hdl:10453/9877. S2CID 144652992.
4. Clark, Penney (2011). New Possibilities for the Past: Shaping History Education in Canada. UBC Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-2061-5.
5. Chapnick, Adam (Summer 2010). "Where have all of Canada's diplomatic historians gone?". International Journal. 65 (3): 726. doi:10.1177/002070201006500312. ISSN 0020-7020. JSTOR 25762027. S2CID 144704573.