Community-Based Research and the Historian’s Craft: The Hiram Wilson Letters Project

Authors

  • Nina Reid-Maroney Huron University College (at the University of Western Ontario, London)
  • Zorian Maksymec
  • Christina Redmond

Abstract

 

This paper discusses a community-based research project that paired undergraduate History students with local community partners in an exploration of the antislavery movement in Canada and the problem of its erasure from local historical memory. The article outlines the project’s background and method, outlines the wide-ranging importance of the community classroom it helped to create, and reflects on the importance of undergraduate research in the setting of a liberal arts university as a bridge between classroom and community.

Author Biographies

Nina Reid-Maroney, Huron University College (at the University of Western Ontario, London)

Associate Professor, Department of History

Zorian Maksymec

Graduate of Huron University College (Honours History) and a student in the Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston.

Christina Redmond

Graduate of Huron University College and a student at Glendon School of Public Affairs, York University, Toronto.

 

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Published

07/14/2016

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Insights, Case Studies, and Applications

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