The sections below relate to various social and cultural subjects of U of T history that may be of interest to researchers.

The following sources examine political, educational, and other aspects of academic freedom at the University of Toronto across the 20th century.

Horn, Michiel. Academic Freedom in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442670570.

Horn, Michiel. “Academic Freedom in Wartime: The Canadian Experience in the Twentieth Century.” In Cultures, Communities, and Conflict: Histories of Canadian Universities and War, edited by Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, 202–26. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Horn, Michiel. “Canadian Universities, Academic Freedom, Labour, and the Left.” Labour / Le Travail 46 (2000): 439. https://doi.org/10.2307/25149107.

Horn, Michiel. “Students and Academic Freedom in Canada.” Historical Studies in Education 11, no. 1 (1999): 1–32.

Kuhlberg, Mark. “A Failed Attempt to Circumvent the Limits on Academic Freedom: C.D. Howe, the Forestry Board, and ‘Window Dressing’ Forestry in Ontario in the Late 1920s.” History of Intellectual Culture 2, no. 1 (2002).

Kuhlberg, Mark. “'By Just What Procedure Am I to Be Guillotined?': Academic Freedom in the Toronto Forestry Faculty between the Wars.” History of Education 31, no. 4 (2002): 351–70.

The sources below explore nation-building aspects of the university’s 20th-century history, including institutionalized techno-nationalism and imperialistic ideology among students and university authorities.

Moses, Nigel Roy. “Bonds of Empire: The Formation of the National Federation of Canadian University Students, 1922–1929.” Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, November 26, 2018. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse-rhe.v31i1.4634.

Sá, Creso, Andrew Kretz, and Kristjan Sigurdson. “Techno-Nationalism and the Construction of University Technology Transfer.” Minerva 51, no. 4 (2013): 443–64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-013-9242-x.

The following sources on student protest in the 1960s-1970s provide insight into conflicts between university administration on matters of drug use, freedom of speech, and birth control.

Levi, Charles. “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and the University College Lit: The University of Toronto Festivals, 1965-69.” Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’Histoire de l’Éducation 18, no. 2 (September 2006): 163–90. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse/rhe.v18i2.348.

Sethna, Christabelle. “The University of Toronto Health Service, Oral Contraception and Student Demand for Birth Control, 1960-1970.” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’Éducation 17, no. 2 (2005): 265–92. https://doi.org/10.32316/hse/rhe.v17i2.79.

Related UTARMS accessions

• UTARMS Oral History Collection on Student Activism

The following accessions relate to Health Services ca. 1960s-1970s.

• University of Toronto. Health Services fonds, A2004-0008
• University of Toronto. University Historian fonds, A1983-0036