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Hosted by Dr. John Fontaine · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 10 episodes
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*Canadian history is fascinating, but it is rarely factual.* Guided by *Dr. John Fontaine* and AI co-host *ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence)* , this podcast applies a historiographical lens to empower listeners to better interpret the histories we have been falsely taught. From the grand narratives of elites ( *History from Above* ) to more accurate histories of the common people ( *History from Below* ), *History is Unreal* explores how the past is shaped by the *positionality* and biases of both writer and you the reader.The result? Silent/untold histories of communities and its peoples are recovered and brought to light. Designed for post-secondary students, historians, and lifelong learners, we transition from our early podcast episodes on theory (only a few, promise) toward auditing and better explaining actual *Canadian historical events;* applying our adjusted lens to the messy, chaotic, and real stories that unfolded across the very spaces where we now live and breathe.*Jo
Dr. John Fontaine hosts History is Unreal, a history show with 10 episodes published.
The ultimate success or failure of the Métis farmers never mattered. They were simply caught between a federal government executing their economy-building National Policy, and an Oblate Church committing to a French-Cath
In Episode 7 of HistoryisUnreal, we advance to Step 2: The History We've Been Told. We consider the narrative surrounding the 1896 foundation of the St. Paul des Métis agricultural experiment and its subsequent 1909 diss
Welcome to Episode 6 of History is Unreal. Today, we officially deploy our four-step historical analysis on a critical event in Canada's history, the Métis expropriation at St. Paul, Alberta; starting with Step 1: Contex
History is an argument, built on the biases of its writers and readers. In episode 5, we begin to look beyond the "why" of history to begin the process of establishing a base chronology of events—the essential starting p
In episode 4, this hands-on workshop (and last theory episode for a bit), Dr. John and ANI start to transition from theory to talking about actual Canadian historical events. We explore the Positionality Audit—a tool for
Host: Dr. John Fontaine AI Co-Host: ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) In episode 3, Dr. John and ANI tackle the "Positionality Paradox." If every historian is biased by their own surroundings, how can we ever reach a
Title: The AI Mirror: Reflecting Our Bias in Telling Canadian History Host: Dr. John Fontaine Co-Host: ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) Is history a collection of facts, or just a "sophisticated mirror" of whoever is
"History, Canada’s history in particular, is very interesting; but it is not factual.” Welcome to the first episode of History is Unreal. Dr. John Fontaine and ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) introduce Canadian hist
"History, Canada’s history in particular, is very interesting; but it is not factual.” Welcome to the official trailer for History is Unreal. Dr. John Fontaine and co-host ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) introduce t
"The histories we’ve been told are based on interpretations that serve our present and our biases." Join Dr. John Fontaine and his AI co-host, ANI Buddy, for the debut teaser of History is Unreal. In this 30-second intro
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