History News Network is an American website that daily publishes a substantial amount of original commentary by historians, as well as reprints of history-related stories from other publications. It tends a little too much to politics-over-history for my taste. Also it's very Planet America: very much an American worldview that shapes its historical coverage. Nevertheless, il a le grand mérite d'exister, as someone once said in another context.
So it is good to see Ian Rocksborough-Smith, who teaches at the University of the Fraser Valley in BC, offering Americans a news report on "Canada's own history war." It's a report on how the Canadian historical profession is grappling with truth and reconciliation questions. It focusses on the Canadian Historical Association's Canada Day declaration and the criticism promptly levelled against it. It provides copious links, and takes note of the "1619" controversy, so as to give American readers some context.
Partisans on either side of that debate may find things to quibble with in the piece.
