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Social Sciences - History / Archeology - 24.05.2022

Social Sciences - History / Archeology - 12.05.2022

Constant Awashish calls for reconciliation

History / Archeology - Campus - 28.04.2022

Researchers collect personal stories from coast to coast to illuminate the history of Muslims in Canada

History / Archeology - 19.04.2022

The world’s first photographically illustrated book is at UdeM
Botanist Anna Atkins was the first person in the world to publish a book illustrated with photographs.

Environment - History / Archeology - 12.04.2022

Western researchers first to map effects of England’s ’little ice age’ 
London Bridge during the Frost of 1795-1796. Daniel Turner painting, City of London Corporation It produced floods deep enough to carry away cattle, and winds powerful enough to sink flotillas.

History / Archeology - Campus - 04.04.2022

An unsettling history: Book co-edited by University of Toronto prof explores oppressive, violent Black experiences in Canada

Health - History / Archeology - 01.04.2022

Bernard Langer, a Canadian surgery pioneer, remembered in the Globe and Mail

History / Archeology - Linguistics / Literature - 16.03.2022

’A human tragedy at the greatest scale’: Lynne Viola on how distorted history shapes today’s war in Ukraine

Campus - History / Archeology - 07.03.2022

Female students: many more than yesterday-but fewer than tomorrow?

History / Archeology - 11.02.2022

University of Toronto dentistry grad preserves history of Underground Railroad

History / Archeology - 10.02.2022

Black people’s relationship with Shakespeare is complicated
Q&As Erik Rolfsen Black people have a long history with Shakespeare-and a long history of bumping up against the Bard's white gatekeepers.

History / Archeology - Campus - 10.02.2022

Using Philip Smith’s archaeological archives to rediscover Iran’s ’Treasure Valley’
Julien Riel-Salvatore has used archaeologist Philip Smith's archives from the Ganj Dareh dig in Iran to create a 3D reconstruction of a section of the important human heritage site. Faced with the constraints created by the pandemic, Julien Riel-Salvatore got creative. Unable to visit the Italian archaeological sites he specializes in, the professor in the University of Montreal's Anthropology Department set to work studying part of an orphaned collection of artifacts originally assembled by Canadian archaeologist Philip Smith.

History / Archeology - Campus - 02.02.2022

How University of Toronto alumna Rosemary Sadlier convinced Canada to recognize Black History Month

History / Archeology - Campus - 26.01.2022

History / Archeology - 25.01.2022

Social Sciences - History / Archeology - 21.01.2022

University of Toronto researcher explores perceptions of disability in post-revolutionary Mexico

History / Archeology - 20.01.2022

University of Toronto’s Lynne Viola helps document Soviet-era history amid crackdown on archives: Toronto Star

Art and Design - History / Archeology - 19.01.2022

Social Sciences - History / Archeology - 19.01.2022

Health - History / Archeology - 07.01.2022

Innovation - History / Archeology - 04.01.2022

University of Toronto researchers investigate the hidden history of ’Black androids’
It began as a series of isolated references - the term would appear in a historical article here, a book there.

History / Archeology - Campus - 02.12.2021

Marjoleine Kars wins 2021 Cundill History Prize

History / Archeology - Campus - 30.11.2021

A historian’s hat trick: University of Toronto’s Lynne Viola receives SSHRC Gold Medal for her work on Stalinist Russia

Health - History / Archeology - 11.11.2021

’A distinctly Canadian legacy’: Frederick Banting helped pioneer aviation medicine during the Second World War
Doctor and researcher. Inventor and Nobel laureate. Painter and war hero. Frederick Banting  is widely recognized for achievements in many fields - including, famously, the  discovery of insulin with colleagues at the University of Toronto and partner hospitals a century ago.

Campus - History / Archeology - 08.11.2021

’Let’s hear your voice and lead the way’: University of Toronto’s Class of 2021 to be celebrated at virtual fall convocation

History / Archeology - Social Sciences - 29.10.2021

Demons within: University of Toronto researcher writes about spiritual life in France’s North American colony

History / Archeology - 25.10.2021

Open book: University of Toronto’Aga Khan exhibit explores secrets within ancient texts
An ancient book can tell a story in more ways than one. A wooden cover can offer clues about the climate when the book was made. Its paper and ink can tell us about technologies that were used at that point in history.

Politics - History / Archeology - 13.10.2021

Expert insights: Canada’s worrisome urban-rural political divide has never been greater
By Zack Taylor and Jack Lucas, Special to Western News After all the ballots were counted in the recent Canadian federal election, was anyone surprised that Gudie Hutchings, incumbent Liberal MP in the district of Long Range Mountains, Newfoundland and Labrador, had been re-elected ?

Health - History / Archeology - 16.09.2021

History / Archeology - Campus - 09.09.2021

’Here we are, now it’s our turn’: University of Toronto’s groundbreaking women’s studies program launched 50 years ago

Campus - History / Archeology - 03.09.2021

In photos: As University of Toronto navigates a safe return to campus, here are a few (of the many) places we’ve missed