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In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr.

Following an ancient pilgrimage route a thousand miles from Canterbury to Rome, the bestselling and award-winning writer weaves history and culture into an exploration of why Christianity is strugg

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native.

Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast.

Tracing the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district, this book chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.

Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a force to be reckoned with.

Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years.

The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy.

Halifax women won the Second World War--but not in the ways you might have been told.

1970 was the last year of the Beatles and the first year of the supersonic Concorde--a time of new possibilities and social upheaval, and Jennifer Hosten, a young airline hostess from the Caribbean

British Columbia's political arena has always been the site of dramatic rises and falls, infighting, scandal, and come-from-behind victories.

A stunning work of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist who has risked her own life to bring us a deeply disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that takes the true measure of Rwanda

The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential yet unknown publisher and aspirational politician.

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together?