In recent years, public history has developed as a credible strategy for communicating the value and significance of historical knowledge. It is hard to see how the shallowness of so much public life can be overcome without a commitment to better understanding our historical position. This project is dedicated to developing a set of historical notes to honour the people and history of civil society in the Maritimes, illuminating them with key stories and images.
The Scottish author, Robert Chambers, published his Book of Days in 1864, and the sub-title is still very apt for our project: "A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and Character".
“I have often thought how ridiculous it was that a nation, whose ancestors knew so well the value of liberty as to have maintained it with the last drop of their blood should be instrumental in enslaving a race of people whose only crime, if I judge right, is that the same Being which created them, for reasons beyond the capacity of mortals, made them black instead of white ...” Richard John Uniacke (1753-1830)
