Steven High
@stevenhigh.bsky.social
Professor of History at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Current Project: Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time -- deindustrialization.org . New Book: The Left in Power: Bob Rae's NDP and the Working Class (Feb '25)
Very much looking forward to reading this book when it comes out in the spring! Congratulations @coryhaala.bsky.social !
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And just like that, it's real.
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.
Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
When Democrats Won the Heartland
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November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this book when it comes out in the spring! Congratulations @coryhaala.bsky.social !
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Great book! As for the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, I remember that storm well living in Thunder Bay and my father saying to me he hoped there were no ships on the lake. Can't believe it is 50 years ago (feeling ancient).
If you're planing to spend the weekend preparing for the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Monday, but you just don't know enough about the taconite pellets that were in the ship's ill-fated hold, may I recommend a book for you?
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Taconite Dreams
Winner of the Midwestern History Association's 2016 Hamlin Garland Prize The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest ...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Great book! As for the Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking, I remember that storm well living in Thunder Bay and my father saying to me he hoped there were no ships on the lake. Can't believe it is 50 years ago (feeling ancient).
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Hot off the press! Manufacturing & the Australian City, five articles examining the transformative role of manufacturing in the evolution of Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with a rich introduction by the editors Frost, O'Hanlon & Shanahan. A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
Special Issue: Manufacturing and the Australian City: Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review: Vol 65, No 3
Click on the title to browse this issue
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November 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Hot off the press! Manufacturing & the Australian City, five articles examining the transformative role of manufacturing in the evolution of Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide with a rich introduction by the editors Frost, O'Hanlon & Shanahan. A special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!
Minimal support in today's Cdn budget for workers displaced by industrial restructuring. Some $ for training and worksharing. Continued temporary changes to UI (should be made permanent). So nothing to suggest that this will be a just transition. We needed a real investment in worker adjustment.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Minimal support in today's Cdn budget for workers displaced by industrial restructuring. Some $ for training and worksharing. Continued temporary changes to UI (should be made permanent). So nothing to suggest that this will be a just transition. We needed a real investment in worker adjustment.
Huge thanks to Indranil Chakraborty and the contributors to our new edited volume. The study of deindustrialization has hitherto focused on the global north. Not only is the story different in India but so too is the disciplinary mix. @deindustrialpol.bsky.social
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Deindustrialization and Economic Restructuring in Post-Reform India
This volume explores the concept of deindustrialization in post-reform India. It combines macro studies of Indian political economy with the micro analysis of economic restructuring, growth, and preca...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Huge thanks to Indranil Chakraborty and the contributors to our new edited volume. The study of deindustrialization has hitherto focused on the global north. Not only is the story different in India but so too is the disciplinary mix. @deindustrialpol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Deindustrial...
www.routledge.com/Deindustrial...
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This is a marvellous book: so nuanced and humane www.cundillprize.com/news/lyndal-...
Lyndal Roper wins 2025 Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and… | Cundill Prize
Lyndal Roper has been announced as the 2025 winner of the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War
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October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This is a marvellous book: so nuanced and humane www.cundillprize.com/news/lyndal-...
As a teen, I went to a left-wing musical at the Ukrainian Labour Temple in Thunder Bay - still remember the lyrics: "Freedom and Fascism, Freedom and Fascism, start with F, but one is a crime. You can never fool, you can never fool, all the people all of the time."
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
As a teen, I went to a left-wing musical at the Ukrainian Labour Temple in Thunder Bay - still remember the lyrics: "Freedom and Fascism, Freedom and Fascism, start with F, but one is a crime. You can never fool, you can never fool, all the people all of the time."
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OPINION | L’héritage de Gérald Tremblay n’est pas loin de nous. Le modus operandi à l’époque, puis encore sous l’administration de Denis Coderre, c’était d’ouvrir les vannes aux promoteurs immobiliers.
Une chronique de Francis Dolan 👇
Une chronique de Francis Dolan 👇
Élections municipales : revenir aux années de Gérald Tremblay? – Pivot
Alors que les locataires sont toujours aux prises avec l’héritage des maires Tremblay et Coderre, Montréal doit préserver et renforcer les mesures initiées sous Valérie Plante.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
OPINION | L’héritage de Gérald Tremblay n’est pas loin de nous. Le modus operandi à l’époque, puis encore sous l’administration de Denis Coderre, c’était d’ouvrir les vannes aux promoteurs immobiliers.
Une chronique de Francis Dolan 👇
Une chronique de Francis Dolan 👇
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A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
Writing Loss, Culture and Change: Deindustrialisation and Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow
By Kate Wilson, Published on 10/01/25
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October 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A new article from me about writing groups, class, culture and radical adult education in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s Glasgow: scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol50/is...
Very sad news about the loss of historian Tim Cook, who died far too young. His impact on our understanding of Canadian military history was just massive. An outstanding historian. He will be missed.
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Tim Cook, chief historian at Canadian War Museum, dies | CBC News
Tim Cook, the chief historian at the Canadian War Museum and the country’s “pre-eminent military historian,” has died, the museum announced Sunday.
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October 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Very sad news about the loss of historian Tim Cook, who died far too young. His impact on our understanding of Canadian military history was just massive. An outstanding historian. He will be missed.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Naomi Frost and I have published "Survivor Innocence and the Recovery of Political Pasts: The Case of the Cambodian Diaspora in Montreal,” in Mark Cave and Selma Leydesdorff, eds. Global Handbook of Oral History. Selma died just last week -her work has been an inspiration.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Naomi Frost and I have published "Survivor Innocence and the Recovery of Political Pasts: The Case of the Cambodian Diaspora in Montreal,” in Mark Cave and Selma Leydesdorff, eds. Global Handbook of Oral History. Selma died just last week -her work has been an inspiration.
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Assistant Professor – Contemporary Québec History. Deadline: November 29, 2025. #cdnhist #québec #skystorians @histoireudem.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
October 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Assistant Professor – Contemporary Québec History. Deadline: November 29, 2025. #cdnhist #québec #skystorians @histoireudem.bsky.social cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...
Today’s DePOT Deindustrialization Blog comes from Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar.
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
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The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
Deindustrialization and the Calumet Region – Deindustrialization
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October 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Today’s DePOT Deindustrialization Blog comes from Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar.
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
The case of the Calumet Region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago is a particularly interesting one:
deindustrialization.org/deindustrial...
I am very much looking forward to reading this!
#Yellowknife people: We're in town for the launch of The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife! If you're in town, join us at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Thursday Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion of the book with the authors and local guests.
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am very much looking forward to reading this!
Sad news - oral historian Selma Leydesdorff has died after a long illness. I always appreciated our interactions over the years, most recently as a contributor to her forthcoming Handbook on Global Oral History. Sending my very best to her friends and family.
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Prof. dr. S. (Selma) Leydesdorff
S. Leydesdorff. Oral History and Culture. Faculty of Humanities. Kloveniersburgwal 48.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Sad news - oral historian Selma Leydesdorff has died after a long illness. I always appreciated our interactions over the years, most recently as a contributor to her forthcoming Handbook on Global Oral History. Sending my very best to her friends and family.
www.uva.nl/en/profile/l...
www.uva.nl/en/profile/l...
Wonderful to see the fabulous Scottish Oral History Centre (and Arthur McIvor) featured this way!
Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Wonderful to see the fabulous Scottish Oral History Centre (and Arthur McIvor) featured this way!
The deadline for the June 2026 @deindustrialpol.bsky.social conference is today and that of our summer institute for emerging scholars is next week. Check out our website for details (deindustrialization.org). Here is one of my favourite DePOT photos taken at our 2022 summer institute in Germany:
October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The deadline for the June 2026 @deindustrialpol.bsky.social conference is today and that of our summer institute for emerging scholars is next week. Check out our website for details (deindustrialization.org). Here is one of my favourite DePOT photos taken at our 2022 summer institute in Germany:
A new DePOT Blog from Amber Ward on "Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town."
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October 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A new DePOT Blog from Amber Ward on "Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town."
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deindustrialization.org/netflix-toxi...
Beautiful autumn day - perfect for leading the senior's group at Greene Community Centre on a historical walk of the Lachine Canal! Super enjoyable.
You can do it too - via our downloadable memory-based audio tour: storytelling.concordia.ca/projects-ite...
You can do it too - via our downloadable memory-based audio tour: storytelling.concordia.ca/projects-ite...
Canal – COHDS
« Les gars s’accrochaient après le train pis y se rendaient à l’école Saint-Henri […] pour économiser, pour être capables d’aller au restaurant […] manger une frite pis prendre une liqueur. »
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September 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Beautiful autumn day - perfect for leading the senior's group at Greene Community Centre on a historical walk of the Lachine Canal! Super enjoyable.
You can do it too - via our downloadable memory-based audio tour: storytelling.concordia.ca/projects-ite...
You can do it too - via our downloadable memory-based audio tour: storytelling.concordia.ca/projects-ite...
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No deal is better than a bad deal. Ottawa must stop chasing tariff relief at the expense of Canadian workers, resources and sovereignty By @marclee.bsky.social and @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social director Stuart Trew @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/politicslaw/...
Is Ottawa selling out Canada to Trump?
Stuart Trew and Marc Lee • Critical industries and sovereignty may be the price for tariff relief
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September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
No deal is better than a bad deal. Ottawa must stop chasing tariff relief at the expense of Canadian workers, resources and sovereignty By @marclee.bsky.social and @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social director Stuart Trew @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/politicslaw/...
What a great idea - how could this go wrong? Look at what a great job the US/Blair did in Iraq.
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Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority
Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule
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September 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
What a great idea - how could this go wrong? Look at what a great job the US/Blair did in Iraq.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Now available! Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters by @kdubin.bsky.social!
From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...
From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...
September 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Now available! Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters by @kdubin.bsky.social!
From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...
From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...