In addition to being a social historian of rural Canada, the family, and fossil fuels, she is interested in the intersection of history education and public memory in contemporary Canada. Her most recent book relating to history education is To The Past: History Education, Public Memory and Citizenship in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006). She is co-editor with Amy von Heyking of an edited collection forthcoming from University of Toronto Press, Becoming a History Teacher in Canada: Sustaining Practices in Historical Thinking. She is co-director, with John Sutton Lutz and Peter Gossage, Page 335and Educational Director of the history education website series, Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History.