Jack Granatstein Jack Lawrence Granatstein , is a Canadian historian who specializes in Canadian political and military history .Education Born in Toronto, Ontario , Granatstein received a graduation diploma from Royal Military College Saint-Jean in 1959, his BA from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1961, his MA from the University of Toronto in 1962 and his Ph.D from Duke University in 1966.Career Granatstein served in the Canadian Army from 1956 to 1966. He then taught at York University until 1996 where he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus. Granatstein is an outspoken defender of traditional narrative history in lectures, books, print, and broadcast media. Perhaps his best known work is Who Killed Canadian History? , which expressed his alarm at the widespread ignorance of history among students, and the distortions he complained were perpetrated by a new generation of social historians. He wrote of an ideological war waged inside university history departments: He is the author of over sixty other books, including Yankee Go Home? , Who Killed The Canadian Military? , and Victory 1945 . The Generals won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography . The Last Good War was awarded the Canadian Authors Association's 2005 Lela Common Award for Canadian History. He was a member of the RMC Board of Governors and is Chair of the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century . Granatstein has also been involved in television coverage of political and military events. On June 6 , 1994, he was part of the CBC's coverage of the 50th anniversary of D-Day , as the network's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge got expert help in the commentary from Granatstein. Granatstein helped Mansbridge again on May 8, 1995, during the CBC's coverage of the 50th anniversary of VE Day . He reprised the same role on the 60th and 65th anniversaries of D-Day and V-E Day. Jack Granatstein served as the head of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa from 1998 to 2001 and was a driving force behind the building of the museum's new home that opened in 2005. He currently sits on the Advisory Council and is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute .Honours The Royal Society of Canada awarded him the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal for "outstanding work in the history of Canada". In 1996, the Conference of Defence Associations Institute named him winner of the Vimy Award . In 1996, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada , and he won the National History Society's Pierre Berton Prize in 2004 and the Organization for the History of Canada's National History Award in 2006. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Western Ontario , the University of Calgary , as well as Memorial University of Newfoundland , McMaster University , Niagara University , and Ryerson University . He was awarded the C.P. Stacey Prize, in collaboration with Dean Oliver, in 2011 for their The Oxford Companion to Canadian Military History .Family Jack Granatstein is a descendant of Mendel Granatstein, a Polish Jew, who emigrated to Toronto where he became a successful business owner in the textile industry and became the first Jew to own a home in Toronto.
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