History

Speaking Stones launched on Thursday.
  • 6 years 3 months ago

Social histories get a voice

For the past eight months, CFRC and Queen’s Archives have been collaborating on a revitalization of the Archives’ “Speaking Stones” website guide to the social history of Kingston.Continue...

A puppet of Sir John A. Macdonald at City Hall on Canada Day.
  • 6 years 3 months ago

Sir John A. a divisive figure

The legacy of Canada’s first Prime Minister is being debated in the lead-up to Sir John A. Macdonald’s bicentennial.Continue...

The once-annual “Kill McGill” game and the rivalry that came with it became a thing of the past after Queen’s and McGill moved to separate football conferences.
  • 6 years 4 months ago

Forgotten adversaries

Ask around campus who Queen’s biggest rival is and you’re likely to hear a rousing chorus of “Wuck Festern”.Continue...

Performers share their message on a sunny afternoon in City Park.
  • 6 years 5 months ago

Stones in the Woods sheds light on part of the community's history

Set in a quiet, woody area of City Park, Stones in the Woods isn’t only a historically informative play, but an intimate, well-acted one.Continue...

From left to right: Zoey Katz and Elana Moscoe, this year’s organizers.
  • 7 years 3 months ago

Holocaust education gets personal

Elana Moscoe and Zoey Katz want to make learning about the Holocaust more personal
for students.Continue...

  • 8 years 11 months ago

History reworks course value

The history department will implement curriculum changes this fall that will increase the weighting of upper-level history seminar classes.Continue...

Queen’s historian Duncan McDowall said the term Student Ghetto may have originated out of McGill University.
  • 9 years 1 month ago

Student Ghetto through the years

The student-populated area East of McGill’s campus was called “the McGill Ghetto” before Queen’s adopted the term.Continue...

Two consecutive classes of HIST 283, the History of the Third World, were cancelled. On Friday, the class reconvened for an announcement made by the department chair of history James Carson.
  • 9 years 3 months ago

Concerns about professor

Adjunct assistant professor Mike Mason has not attended his class since he announced that students had complained to the history department about terms used in his lectures.Continue...

  • 9 years 5 months ago

Editors' note

Since January, our banner has stated that the Queen’s Journal is Canada’s oldest student newspaper in our print and online editions. It turns out we’re not.Continue...

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