For Janet Thompson, the best way to engage students is to give them opportunities to be actively involved in their learning by thinking like historians. It’s this passion for teaching historical thinking that drives her in the classroom.
Book Review: In Drop Dead by Lorna Poplak, the author has provided a serious exploration of Canada’s history of capital punishment from Confederation to abolition, honing in on the preferred method: public hanging.
Book review: Much More than Police covers the period from the Newfoundland Constabulary’s founding in 1871 to its contraction following Newfoundland’s Confederation with Canada in 1949.
Kenneth Peacock’s work provided an opportunity to examine the revival of folk music in Newfoundland from the perspective of the Mainland, rather than within the island.
