Papers by Anne Marie Lane Jonah
Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d’histoire de la region atlantique, 2016
Those producing history for government or publicly funded institutions are constrained to conside... more Those producing history for government or publicly funded institutions are constrained to consider their institution's mandate as well as potential audience(s), and to make their messages appealing and accessible. Cultural critics foreground the impact of these limitations and of the expectations of the audience on the story told in public history. 1 If publicly funded history produced by government-run sites is expected to speak to the official collective identity, to represent the polity that produces the history, as well as to be appealing, these expectations weigh heavily on the history being presented. As Peter Hodgins and Nicole Neatby observed in the introduction to their recent work on public history, "Public communication is conservative in its most profound sense: in order to be broadly accessible or legible and believed, the public communicator often has no choice but to work within the restricted vocabulary of the 'already-known' and the 'commonsensical'." 2 Nonetheless, the public's relationship to its past, to information, and to communications technology has changed what is discussed and how it is discussed. What was "commonsensical" a generation ago may not be "commonsensical" today. Thus, public history is among the most important and most dynamic contexts within which interpretations of the past interact with the sensibilities of the present. Within the constraints of official public history, how do researchers, presenters, and audiences bring about change, ask new questions, and challenge assumptions? By looking at the example of the presentation of women's history at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, run by Parks Canada, I hope to provide some insight into how this process can work, and illustrate the degree to which all participants in public history are agents in its production. Since living history was 1 A.
Cap Aux Diamants La Revue D Histoire Du Quebec, 2009
... AND ECONOMY OF A FISHING COMMUNITY: LIVERPOOL, NOVA SCOTIA IN THE LATE 18th CENTURY Anne Mari... more ... AND ECONOMY OF A FISHING COMMUNITY: LIVERPOOL, NOVA SCOTIA IN THE LATE 18th CENTURY Anne Marie Lane Jonah Supervisor: University ... Families in Social Historical Perspective", Canadian Journal of Sociology, 6 n.3 (1981); and John Mack Faragher, "History ...
French Colonial History, 2010
... included in the record of the proceeding before the Conseil Supérieur of Louisbourg, is found... more ... included in the record of the proceeding before the Conseil Supérieur of Louisbourg, is found in Anne Marie Lane Jonah, "Speaking for ... 5. Robert K. Thomas (1985) cited in Heather Devine, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660 ...
French Colonial History, 2007
Cet article examine un groupe de femmes nées en Acadie (Nouvelle-Écosse) qui, ayant épousé des of... more Cet article examine un groupe de femmes nées en Acadie (Nouvelle-Écosse) qui, ayant épousé des officiers coloniaux français, sont forcées par la conquête anglaise à quitter la colonie, voyager en France, et par la suite, s'établir dans la nouvelle colonie française de l'île Royale (Cap-...
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Papers by Anne Marie Lane Jonah