Alien invasions, shark-bite incidents and punk rock – nope, history is definitely not what it used to be.
More than 500 students from a dozen Ontario high schools were treated to some unconventional history lectures during Western’s High School History Day on Oct. 11.
With presentations that included Canadian gladiators in sports, concentration camps, piracy, the students were treated to lectures that were sometimes entertaining and always thought-provoking. The day, organized by the History department at Western introduced the teens to what they might expect if they studied university-level history.