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When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community.

In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr.

When Sylvia Van Kirk published her groundbreaking book, Many Tender Ties, in 1980, she revolutionized the historical understanding of the North American fur trade and introduced entirely new areas

What force of will and circumstance drove a woman from a comfortable life painting china tea services to one of hardship and loneliness in the battle zones of France and Belgium following the Great

Part ethnography, part narrative, Like the Sound of a Drum is evocative, confrontational, and poetic.

In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world.

Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society.

The first comprehensive history of the Aboriginal First World War experience on the battlefield and the home front.When the call to arms was heard at the outbreak of the First World War, Canada’s F

The introduction by Brown and Brightman describes Nelson's career in the fur trade and explains the influences affecting his perception and understanding of Native religions.

Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country’s long and bloody unification.

Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years.

What do we know of masculinities in non-patriarchal societies?

A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian.

Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies.

Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état.