Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Ils étaient douze hommes à se lancer dans l’aventure de la création d’une cave coopérative viticole dans un petit village de Saône-et-Loire. Douze visionnaires fédérés par le Docteur Ozanon à vouloir agir en commun. Nous sommes le 13 janvier 1931. Six mois plus tard naissait officiellement la Cave des Vignerons de Buxy. Voir l'article...
Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Sur une carte de 1,17 m sur 97 cm, Alain Bourguignon, ancien chef de la rôtisserie de l’Écu de France à Paris, a publié, en 1929, une Carte gastronomique de la France que la BNF vient de rééditer. Voir l'article...
Par Alexandre Roberge. Rome attire les foules par son histoire et aussi du fait qu’elle abrite le plus petit État au monde (le Vatican). Parce qu'au-delà du charme des Italiens, cette cité a marqué l'humanité. Voir l'article...
By . There are a few gems scattered through Statistics Canada’s archives. Digging around their site the other day, I came across a fantastic trove of documents published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (as StatsCan used to be called) called Higher Education in Canada. The earliest number in this series dates from 1938, and is available here. I urge you to read the whole thing, because it’s a hoot. But let me just focus in on a couple of points in this document worth pondering. More...
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The revelation last year that Georgetown University had, in 1838, sold 272 slaves owned by the school in order to pay off debts reignited a conversation about how America and its old, elite institutions of higher education have continually failed to reckon with their ties to slavery. More...
By Kehinde Andrews, Leah Green and Bruno Rinvolucri. Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact. More...
De 1851 à 2016, l’histoire de l’apprentissage en France est marquée régulièrement par des aménagements législatifs. Nous vous proposons, sous forme de frise historique, un rappel des grandes lois et des principales mesures. Des liens vers les textes de loi et des photos enrichissent cette animation réalisée par le Carif-Oref des Pays de la Loire. Voir l'article...
By Colleen Flaherty. Life will soon be a little easier for oral historians and a number of other kinds of scholars who have had to gain approval from institutional review boards. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Teaching jobs for historians are down, but data suggest their opportunities outside the professoriate are on the rise. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Students and professors tend to loathe survey-style history courses for the same reasons: they’re often large and impersonal, cover long periods of time in little detail, and amount to a slew of dates, events and names over something more meaningful. Yet (or perhaps as a result) survey courses are, for many undergraduates, the only history courses they’ll ever take. Read more...
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