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Melissa J. Gismondi

Melissa J. Gismondi is a historian and journalist, currently based in Toronto.
Black and white illustration of a room corner, done in a pointillist style. There are two doorways: one leads to an airplane, the other to a forest and riverbank. A suitcase waits by the door.
Living Rooms

You Can’t Run Away from Homesickness

November 18, 2020January 29, 2021 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

What it means to miss home in our globalized, climate-changed world

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Photos courtesy of Fox Searchlight, Twentieth Century Fox, Focus Features, Universal, and Annapurna Pictures
Film

Why the Wrong Movies Win Oscars

February 28, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

Audiences are drawn to feel-good films like Green Book because they’re “based on a true story.” But movies that misrepresent and simplify history distort our understanding of the past

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Society

Canadian History Isn’t Boring

September 2, 2018November 13, 2019 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

As a historian, I used to think our country’s past wasn’t worth studying. Podcasts helped change my mind

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White Nationalists and Antifa clashing in charlottesville virginia
Current Affairs

Charlottesville: One Year Later

August 11, 2018June 2, 2020 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

The Unite the Right rally proved the American Civil War has never been resolved

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Politics

Why Media Obsession With Male Charisma Has to Stop

October 19, 2017April 3, 2020 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

Men use their style to get ahead in politics—but women have to play by different rules

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Photograph by Tom Saunders
Society

When It Comes to White Supremacy, Historians Can’t Stand on the Sidelines

August 28, 2017June 6, 2020 - by Melissa J. Gismondi

Scholars must tell the truth about our past—and that doesn’t stop with Confederation

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