Smith, David A.

 

David A. Smith, B.A., M.A., M.A.S., Ph.D. Candidate (History)
Liaison Librarian for Classical, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, History, History of the Modern World, and History of North America

Room 122.5, Murray Library, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A4, Canada
Phone: (306)966-7208; Email: david.smith@usask.ca

My Research Interests: American history, myths of the American West, digitized resources for Indigenous studies

Recent Submissions

  • Imagining Victoria: tourism and the english image of British Columbia’s capital 
    Smith, David A. (University of Washington, 2012)
    Since the 1920s, tourism boosters have promoted Victoria, B.C., as a quaint, “jolly good” capital—more English than England itself—an image of the city that has become widely accepted. Tourist advertising, that “magic ...
  • Transformations: A Sto:lo-Coast Salish Historical Atlas 
    Smith, David A. (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
    Discusses the contributions made by the atlas to our understanding and appreciation of Coast Salish history and culture and its intertwined relationship with newcomer history beginning in the late 18th Century.
  • American nightmare: images of brainwashing, thought control, and terror in Soviet Russia 
    Smith, David A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
    During the earliest and most frigid years of the Cold War, 1947-1953, the overwhelming majority of American's media and public opinion promoted the idea that Soviet society was something close to a complete " dystopia." ...
  • The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples transcripts online 
    Smith, David A. (Native Studies Department, University of Saskatchewan, 2009)
    In 2008, almost 84,000 pages of transcriptions of the hearings and roundtable discussions from the 1900s Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples were made freely available online for the first time by the University of ...
  • Owen Wister's paladin of the plains : The Virginian as a cultural hero 
    Smith, David A. (South Dakota State Historical Society, 2008)
    In 1902, Owen Wister published The Virginian : A Horseman of the Plains. It is possible the most widely read novel ever written by an American. Smith explores the origins of Wister's cowboy hero and the reasons behind the ...