Active History has posted here my talk (ten minutes video) at the keynote session of the Active History conference at Huron College last fall. It starts with some thoughts about all the category boxes we historians put ourselves in and whether "active' history might be a way any of us can get out of them.
The presentations of the other speakers in our session are already up: Wendy Rowney on active history at historic sites and Keith Carlson on doing historical work with communities and organizations.