Source Saturdays: "War Bread" (1918) with Dr. Rebecca Beausaert

Dr. Rebecca Beausaert talks about "War Breads" cook book from 1918 and how it helps us understand the work, and desire, of "home front soldiers" to make a difference to the war effort. Through this discussion, we are able to model how historians read primary sources to expand their analysis of the past. Check out the "War Breads" source here: https://archive.org/details/WarBreadsHowTheHousekeeperMayHelpToSaveTheCountrysWheatSupply Watch the conversation here: https://youtu.be/Lp5p1oNEZy0 Follow Dr. Beausaert on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebeccabeau14 Follow Dr. Cutrara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSCutrara Bio: Dr. Rebecca Beausaert is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph and a Sessional Instructor in various faculties at Wilfrid Laurier University. She also works as an exhibit consultant and researcher for museums. She completed her PhD at York University where her doctoral dissertation examined women's leisure activities in three small Ontario towns between the years 1871 and 1914. Currently, her research interests continue to focus on rural and small-town Ontario in the later 19th and 20th centuries, specifically issues related to leisure, sport, gender, food, agriculture, and the First World War. She has recently begun a new research project that looks at women's work and the gendered environment of tobacco farms in Norfolk County during the postwar years. Learn more about me at https://www.SamanthaCutrara.com/ Pre-order Transforming the Canadian History Classroom: Imagining a New 'We'!https://www.ubcpress.ca/transforming-... https://www.adifferentbooklist.com/?q...[eisbn]=5749O_534SxaPMKQerC7jw https://www.amazon.ca/Transforming-Ca... #MeaningfulLearning #WorldWarOne #ChallengeCdnHist