David J. Gallant

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David J. Gallant
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Historian.

He is a Sessional Lecturer in Canadian History at the University of Calgary. His recently completed dissertation, “Bracing for Armageddon: Rethinking the Outbreak of the First World War in Canada,” is a cultural history of newspapers, diaries, and letters in the summer of 1914. Prior to entering the doctoral program, he spent eight years as a Visiting Professor and Foreign Faculty Coordinator at Pusan National University in South Korea. He lives with his wife and two children in Calgary, Alberta.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Armageddon: Western Canadian Newspapers at the Outbreak of the Great War
Manitoba History, Number 82, Fall 2016

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