A series of disputes between Canadian historians in the 1980s and 1990s that focused on the legacy of its persecution of First Nations, including Canadian residential schools, as well as the role of

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

became known as the history wars. Historian Adam Chipnick describes 1998's ''

Who Killed Canadian History? ''Who Killed Canadian History?'' is a 1998 book by the Canadian historian J. L. Granatstein. The book argues that Canadians lack national unity because of their failure to teach their country's history. Granatstein contends that multicultura ...

'' by J. L. Granatstein as "the pinnacle" of these disputes.

References

{{Canada-hist-stub Historiography of Canada Residential schools in Canada Historiography of genocide