History

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search

For most people, the announcement in 2014 by then prime minister Stephen Harper that a Parks Canada–led expedition to the Canadian Arctic had discovered the wreck of the HMS Erebus, one of the two ships ... Read More »

July 12, 2016 | Filed under: History

Cold Fire: Kennedy’s Northern Front

By John Boyko

Reviewing John Boyko’s 2013 volume, Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation, I was struck by how deftly the author explained Canada’s involvement in the U.S. conflict, and ... Read More »

February 16, 2016 | Filed under: History

Human Rights in Canada: A History

By Dominique Clément

If Canadian history were a rug, it would be marred by large lumps from the many less-than-wholesome subjects that have been swept underneath. Unafraid to peer under the rug at those unmentionable topics is Dominique ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: History

The Literary Storefront: The Glory Years, Vancouver’s Literary Centre, 1978–1985

By Trevor Carolan

“When i think of Storefront I think of Gastown and the smell of patchouli and dope,” writes Sharon Thesen, “ … and a great caring for poetry. It was where I did my first reading.” ... Read More »

December 16, 2015 | Filed under: History

Franklin’s Lost Ship: The Historic Discovery of HMS Erebus

By Alanna Mitchell; John Geiger

In 1845, legendary British naval officer and explorer Sir John Franklin led two ships on an expedition from England in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. The ships and their crew of 129 people were ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: History

★ History’s People: Personalities and the Past

By Margaret MacMillan

History and biography are often treated as two distinct subjects. The former is considered an academic discipline, focused on serious events that are soberly analyzed using statistics and archival sources. By contrast, the latter is ... Read More »

October 19, 2015 | Filed under: History

Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations

By Eli Rubenstein; March of the Living

In 2014, the United Nations sponsored a touring exhibit titled “When You Listen to a Witness, You Become a Witness.” The photographs and accompanying text comprised profiles and accounts of Holocaust survivors intended to educate ... Read More »

September 17, 2015 | Filed under: History

Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation

By Dean Jobb

Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of the 1920s. The son of immigrants from Central Europe, Koretz was a Chicago lawyer turned financier who amassed a considerable fortune by convincing insufficiently diligent investors to bankroll ... Read More »

May 19, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

Tell it to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo

By Eliott Behar

In today’s historical culture, it’s easy to forget that the criminal actions of groups, like ISIS, dominating our 24/7 television and internet driven news cycle are not unique. Indeed, the human capacity to produce atrocities ... Read More »

March 9, 2015 | Filed under: History

Montcalm & Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History

By Roch Carrier; Donald Winkler (trans.)

There have been many books written on the 1759 conquest of Quebec, some focusing on the defeated Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, others on the victorious James Wolfe. Early in Montcalm & Wolfe, Canadian literary lion Roch ... Read More »

February 5, 2015 | Filed under: History, Memoir & Biography

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