History

RMS Titanic: Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic sinking, best-selling historian Hugh Brewster has produced a book that provides new research on the lives of both the victims and survivors of the world’s ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State

By David Berlin

The new book by David Berlin, founding editor of The Walrus, is difficult to classify. Its subtitle suggests a treatise on the best path forward for Israel, and indeed you will find some of that ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars

By Jonathan F. Vance

Historian Jonathan Vance would like to examine a little-known part of Canada’s past: our British roots. This may seem a bit strange at first, but our ties to the “Mother Country” can be considered uninteresting ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: History

★ Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891

By Richard Gwyn

Too many Canadians see John A. Macdonald as a comic figure; his love of patronage and alcohol leads many to dismiss his essential role in the foundation of our country. Nation Maker, the second volume ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two

By Mark Bourrie

Ottawa journalist and academic Mark Bourrie’s new book has taken an unfortunately difficult road to bookshelves. Scheduled to be published by Key Porter Books before the publisher suspended operations, it was subsequently picked up by ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

By David A. Wilson

David Wilson may just be Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s biggest fan. In the second volume of his biography (following 2008’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825–1857), Wilson shows how both McGee’s words and actions ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

By Stuart Henderson

The Yorkville area of downtown Toronto was its own village in the 19th century, but got amalgamated into the city as the metropolis expanded northward. It remained a low-rent and low-rise area until discovered by ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

★ For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

By Melanie Murray

By 2012, Canada’s combat role in Afghanistan will be over. The end of a nation’s involvement in combat activities forces a communal process of contextualizing and ultimately mythologizing the ordeal. Thus the importance of For ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: History

Ortona Street Fight

By Mark Zuehlke

Mark Zuehlke, one of the best-known chroniclers of Canadian military history, has found a new vehicle to tell the tale of Canada’s first major Second World War victory. But in the process he has been ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

By Gerry Fostaty

In the summer of 1974, a routine lecture on a Canadian Forces Base in Valcartier, Quebec, went horribly awry. Somehow, a live grenade found its way into a box of teaching aids and exploded during ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: History

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RMS Titanic: Gilded Lives on a Fatal Voyage

The Moral Lives of Israelis: Reinventing the Dream State

Maple Leaf Empire: Canada, Britain, and Two World Wars

★ Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867–1891

The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two

Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857–1868

Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s

★ For Your Tomorrow: The Way of an Unlikely Soldier

Ortona Street Fight

As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier

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