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Vol. 26 (2025)
Cover page for Past Imperfect Volume 26 with cut-out image of a broken quill over river ice.
Published: 2026-02-20

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  • Editor's Introduction

    Arwen Thysse 陳藹文
    1-2
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Articles

  • The Third Time Was the Charm? Philip of France and the Third Crusade

    Darren Henry-Noel
    3-38
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  • Food and the Experience of Inmates of the Toronto Magdalene Asylum and Industrial House of Refuge, 1853–1883

    Paige Murray
    39-58
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Book Reviews

  • Book Review: Dobbs, Michael. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate—An American Tragedy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021

    Benjamin D.T. Smith
    59-62
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  • Book Review: Grant, Keith Shepherd. Enthusiasms and Loyalties: The Public History of Private Feelings in the Enlightenment Atlantic. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022

    Spencer Paddock
    63-66
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  • Book Review: Sinha, Manisha. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024

    Jamie Myre
    67-71
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Past Imperfect is a peer-reviewed graduate student journal based out of the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. We welcome submissions, in French or in English, from graduate students in all areas of History, Classics, and/or Religious Studies. This open access journal provides an opportunity for developing scholars to gain experience with peer-reviewed academic publishing.

Past Imperfect welcomes original research articles and book reviews covering a broad range of both time and geography. The journal especially encourages the submission of revised term papers, conference presentations, or thesis chapters. Articles that appear in Past Imperfect are abstracted in “America: History and Life” and “Historical Abstracts.”

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