Clio's Soldiers: Charles Stacey and the Army Historical Section in the Second World War
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Charles P. Stacey has long been hailed as the central interpreter of Canada’s Second World War effort, with his writings constructing and composing a specific narrative of that conflict With that in mind, this article is an investigation into the role of C.P. Stacey and the historical officers of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. It examines the way they were able to deliver their twin mandates of facilitating the publication of an official history, as well as collecting, creating, and preserving historical records. These functions must be studied, as they supported the crafting of the postwar official histories and served as their structural underpinnings. In the end, as eye-witnesses to battle and makers of memory, the historical officers played an essential role in laying the foundation for Canadian military history of the war and its subsequent interpretations. As we will see, though, that historical underpinning was constructed by using neither neutral nor unbiased war records and interpretations. The historical officers were forced to develop a pragmatic and nuanced approach to their work as soldiers in the service of history and of the Canadian Army.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".