Today's Reading: Tom Peace explains that Canadian history is still not dead yet all over again once more

Good to start the new year with  Huron College/Western University historian Tom Peace and his thoughtful, sensible essay, "No One Killed Canadian History" at the Active History website

The fact of the matter is this: No one killed Canadian history. The crime never happened.

There were hundreds of excellent Canadian historians in the late-1990s, as there continues to be today. The field is broad, rich, and diverse.

At The National Post and the website The Hub, some other historians and commentators have recently been noting the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jack Granatstein's Who Killed Canadian History? and mourning how somehow the poor thing has been killed over again recently. 

No, it has not. 

Actually, if there's a quarter-century old CanHist classic that really deserves fresh attention, I'd like to think it's my own 1867: How the Fathers Made A Deal." Political history -- and proof that there is still room for political history  But that's just me, I guess.  (The link from the title is to one of my favourite review of it -- the Canadian Historical Review never got around to it.)